Larry Norman - Reader's Digest (Lyrics On Screen Video HD) Classic Rock and Roll

Artist: Larry Norman
Song: Reader's Digest
Genres: Rock and Roll, Folk Rock, Classic Rock, Blues Rock, Gospel Rock, Christian Rock
Album: Only Visiting This Planet (1972)
Origin: San Jose, California, US
Label: Verve Records
Website: http://www.larrynorman.com/

Larry David Norman (April 8, 1947 -- February 24, 2008) was an American Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, record producer, writer, playwright, actor, photographer, and humorist, who is credited as "a key figure in the development of contemporary Christian music", "the most significant artist in the creation of contemporary Christian music (CCM)", the "father of Christian rock music", the "Godfather of gospel rock"; "Christianity's first rock star", the "bad boy of Christian music", and "the poet laureate of the Jesus revolution". "By 1970, Norman had the most recognized name (and face) in the Jesus Movement and the Christian music scene", with Time magazine soon describing him as "probably the top solo artist in the field". While he had long been associated with the Jesus people, and was even described as "the personification of the Jesus Movement of the late '60s and early '70s", Norman himself "did not particularly identify himself with the youth-oriented 'Jesus movement' of the time". He has been credited with having a significant influence on many artists, both secular and religious. Norman has also been described as having a "propensity for spinning stories", and a "penchant for revisionist history".

Only Visiting This Planet Album
On 8 September 1972 Norman began recording his second studio album, Only Visiting This Planet, the first album in a projected trilogy, in George Martin's London AIR Studios . Only Visiting This Planet, often ranked as Norman's best album, "mixed his Christian message with strong political themes", and "was meant to reach the flower children disillusioned by the government and the church" with its "abrasive, urban reality of the gospel". In 1990 CCM magazine voted Only Visiting This Planet as "the greatest Christian album ever recorded".
On 6 January 1973 Norman was one of three named as Best New Male Artist of the year by Cashbox. After a tour of South Africa in June and the UK in July, and the release in July of his "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?", a songbook featuring some of Norman's songs from both Upon This Rock and Only Visiting This Planet.


Lyrics:

Alice is a drag queen, Bowie's somewhere in between
Other bands are looking mean, me, I'm trying to stay clean.
I don't dig the radio, I hate what the charts pick
Rock and roll may not be dead, but it's getting sick.
All over the world disc jockeys sound the same
And every town I play is like the one from where I came.

Rolling Stones are millionaires, flower children pallbearers,
Beatles said All you need is love, and then they broke up.
Jimi took an overdose, Janis followed so close,
The whole music scene and all the bands are pretty comatose.
This time last year, people didn't wanna hear.
They looked at Jesus from afar, this year he's a superstar.

Dear John, who's more popular now?
I've been listening to some of Paul's new records.
Sometimes I think he really is dead.

It's 1973, I wonder who we're gonna see
Who's in power now? Think I'll turn on my TV,
The man on the news said China's gonna beat us,
We shot all our dreamers, there's no one left to lead us.
We need a solution, we need salvation,
Let's send some people to the moon and gather information.

They brought back a big bag of rocks.
Only cost thirteen billion. Must be nice rocks.

You think it's such a sad thing when you see a fallen king
Then you find out they're only princes to begin with
And everybody has to choose whether they will win or lose
Follow God or sing the blues, and who they're gonna sin with.
What a mess the world is in, I wonder who began it.
Don't ask me, I'm only visiting this planet.

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[younged777]

What a work of art! Who said Christians weren't allowed to be sarcastic? If they did, they never met Jesus or read some of the things He said to the most revered religious leaders of His time.

[1madeintheimage]

LOL! *Beatles said all you need is love then they broke-up!*....dear john who's more popular now!!!! So funny! And Larry norman, being so classy, didn't want to be though of as being negative to all these people.What a great, humble guy!

[Crusader1s]

RIGHT ON!!!!!!