When I saw him he had the audience really engaged in his performance.
I was with a radio station so I got free admission and I should have pressed for an interview - but that wasn’t his thing anyway.
In his early years, Norman wanted local bookers to have an audience that was at least 50% non-church types. He wasn’t into just entertaining Christians.
In his later years he would often do concerts just to pay the medical bills for treatment of his heart condition. He died at age 60 from his heart condition, leaving this world too young.
Yeah.
The last time I saw him was sad. He barely played anything, mostly talked and seemed bitter.
He was the first ‘rock’ music I ever heard actually, and it was by accident.
My father would by 8 tracks from a Christian music delivery thing and he got Larry Norman and Love Song.
Gonorrhea on Valentine’s Day
And you’re still looking for the perfect lay
As the kid of a Pentecostal preacher I was like whoa!
Got older and realized there was a lot of better music available, but he was the first that made me pay attention.