A Legend Quizzed

Saturday 27th August 2005

Mike Rimmer threw a whole heap of questions at the founding father of Jesus rock music, LARRY NORMAN.



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Okay, I've got one for you. I would change some albums. I would leave some songs off an album and stick another song on it or I would fight harder or you know, that's what the three things would probably be. Hassling with the record company, standing up for myself and getting a lawyer, going and demanding and accounting. I never had lawyers help me and so I would probably change that and make life a little different - yeah.

Do you have a sense of legacy from your years of ministry, writing and recording?

A legacy? I don't know what that is. A legacy, mm, something you leave behind? Yeah, I am going to leave it all behind! Because I'm not staying here I'm going some place better! I don't know about the legacy part because I mean, I think you can say Elton John's left a legacy cos I mean he's got tons of songs that are just really fun to hear and everybody else, major super stars, Rolling Stones, I don't know, what's their legacy? They left behind girls who lost their virginity, or gay boys or I don't know, I don't know what legacy means. If it means what you leave behind then yeah, I am leaving it all behind.

If you had to choose a single song from all the material you have released over the years to illustrate your music to someone who's never heard you before, what would you pick and why?

Wow, if I was going to demonstrate myself, like if I have any ability to write lyrics you mean? Maybe, I don't know, "Nightmare" that's got some lyrics. I think it's interesting but you know it has to all be explained in great detail to be understood in part so maybe that's not a good song. Oh gosh, even "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" you have to explain that to some people. Okay, "Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?" Yeah, that's kind of an argument, actually it's like you could stand there and say all those lyrics. You could speak them to the Church of the '50s, '60s and the '70s and it's actually a debate so I guess I would pick that one.

Tell me a little bit about the new UK distribution of Solid Rock CDs and how it all came about.

Okay, well Alan Gibson, who lives in England, contacted us and said that it's very difficult to get my music into England, because buying it from America causes problems that crop up with customs and bank charges, conversion rates, all kinds of problems like that that we're not even aware of over here. So we said, "Great, thanks Alan, you know let's set up a website. So we have a separate website in England, it's www.larrynorman.uk.com. It's completely separate from the American Larrynorman.com website. There might be a slightly different product offered. There's different visuals, different graphics, different texts and it's great. People won't have the hassle and they are gonna save money easily because of dispensing with all the problems that we were creating and not knowing it by only distributing it from America.

So thanks to Paul Shaw and Trevor King and Dougie Adam and Alan Gibson and Cross Rhythms, and everybody else that's helping us in many different ways. I appreciate it all, very grateful. God bless everybody and thanks for this opportunity to do an interview, I really enjoyed it.  CR

The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those held by Cross Rhythms. Any expressed views were accurate at the time of publishing but may or may not reflect the views of the individuals concerned at a later date.
 
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Reader Comments

Posted by Will campbell in England @ 20:25 on Sep 2 2018

Does anyone know what number he lived at in park lane carshalton in england. I got an autographed when I lived in California I've never looked back



Posted by Ed Lutheran in Pittsburgh @ 18:42 on Nov 8 2016

Thank you for this interview. I find Larry and his music to be really encouraging in my walk with Jesus. I have a few questions for him that I won't get answered because he passed away. I can only say I miss his ministry and I love it when I read something new like this interview. Why does it seem like today a ministry like Larry's isn't welcome in the churches?



Posted by Peter McHugh in Belfast N.Ireland @ 00:26 on Jun 12 2010

Larry you have and will always be my inspiration. Heaven must be rocking with you and Johnny, Hendrix and Lynott.. Great interview, i've only just found it.. forever an idol.. Pete :)



Posted by robyn kelly in usk, washington-u.s. @ 01:17 on Nov 21 2009

thanks, Larry, for doing such a candid interview..I have been to 3 of your concerts in the early '70's..got to shake your hand, 'n my sis did converse w. you.your influence upon my life, & my husband's has been profound. He went to Ozark Bible College in Joplin too! :) God bless you. I thank God for the internet, as I'd not known what happened w. you. I will pray for your health issues..God bless you. Robyn Kelly



Posted by william in ft. worth @ 11:31 on Mar 4 2008

I found Stonehill's coments very insensitive. Cut the brother some slack .......are you reaching for chest "screaming" ...welll maybe thats why he's not responding right now? But either way when he died is not the time to bring all this stuff out.



Posted by Jeffrey Newman in GA USA @ 20:10 on Jun 9 2006

I think God used Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill and those who caught that wave, that, God accepts us for who we are and it's ok to be yourself. "I (God) Love You Just As You Are!" A message that "christians" often sing in their hymns but do not emulate in their behavior or attitude - especially when relation to the world.

Jeffrey Newman



Posted by Ellis in California, USA @ 00:19 on Oct 30 2005

I want to hear Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill on the radio TODAY. I want to see videos and concerts on TV with them. A revival of their music 2005-6



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