"I Am Pegasus" is a pop rock song written and recorded by American-Australian singer-songwriter

Ross Ryan Ross Edwin Ryan (born 13 December 1950) is an American-born Australian singer-songwriter and producer. His signature tune, " I Am Pegasus", was released in September 1973, which peaked at No. 2 on the Australian Singles. Its parent album, ' ...

, which was issued as a single in September 1973 ahead of his third album, '' My Name Means Horse'' (February 1974). It was produced by Peter Dawkins for

EMI Music Australia EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd (called EMI Music Australia until May 2013) is an Australian imprint of Universal Music Australia, formerly a subsidiary label of EMI Recordings Ltd and, between 1979 and 1996, that of Thorn EMI. It is Austral ...

, which peaked at No. 2 on the Australian charts. Ryan told ''APRAP''s

Debbie Kruger Debbie Kruger (born 14 August 1962) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer, she wrote ''Songwriters Speak'' in August 2005, which contains interviews with 45 Australian and New Zealand songwriters about their craft. Kruger was t ...

in March 2002 how he had merged two songs, "One was about the fact that I had just discovered that Ross means horse... also at the time I was having a really disastrous attempt at a relationship with an air hostess... wasgetting nowhere with them, so I combined them and got a flying horse. And I came up with Pegasus... I looked up all the things that rhymed with Pegasus and I got Dimitrius and Sagittarius." The writing process took the artist about two months and after Dawkins heard it, the producer felt, "it was the obvious single."

Track listing

All track were written by

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Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{authority control 1973 songs 1973 singles EMI Records singles Song recordings produced by Peter Dawkins (musician)