From the Greenbelt website I learnt the sad news of the death of Larry Norman. These paragraphs from Steve Turner's Guardian obituary indicates the significance of Larry's life and music which, as both teenager and adult, has been a challenge and inspiration to my life and faith:
"Larry Norman, who has died at the age of 61, was a pioneer of what became known as Jesus Rock, which combined the rhythms of rock'n'roll with the social and spiritual observations of Christianity. Norman, who was instinctively an outsider, was resigned to the fact that his music would cause offence to the church and the music industry, and once summed his position up as "too secular for the Christians and too Christian for the secularists".
Yet it was his hybrid that provided the template for the development of the multimillion dollar contemporary Christian music industry, a genre that now outsells jazz, classical and new age combined in America."
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Larry Norman - Let The Tape Keep Rolling.
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Yeah, a sad loss, but boy does he get to the Rock now, eh, 'In Another Land'!?
(BTW, I think he was actually only 60 and not quite 61 when he died. The Obit. dates didn't quite tally, I noticed.)
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