This was originally posted on Feb. 27, 2008 on a blog that I am phasing out, but I didn’t want to lose the post.
While surfing the Internet last night, I learned that Larry Norman, considered by many to the Father of Christian Rock, passed away on Sunday. Instead of me (who owns only one Larry Norman album) trying to say something about the man and his influence on the world, I’m going to pass along what I’ve found online that others have written in tribute to him, starting with his own obituary:
- The notice of Larry’s passing at his website: www.larrynorman.com.
- Article at Christianity Today: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/februaryweb-only/109-22.0.html
- Article at CCM Magazine: http://www.ccmmagazine.com/news/stories/11569319/
- Article at Entertainment Weekly: http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/02/remembering-chr.html
- Article at Cross Rhythms, a British site: http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/news/Larry_Norman__19472008/30703/p1/
- A statement from Randy Stonehill: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08020192.htm
- Freelance writer Lorette C. Luzajic’s Little Miss Chatterbox blog: http://thegirlcanwrite.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/such-a-nice-guy-the-outlaw-larry-norman/
- From the blog of Prof. John Stackhouse, the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College, an international graduate school of Christian studies in Vancouver, Canada: http://stackblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/c-s-lewis-francis-schaefferand-larry-norman/
Now I’m going to pull out that album and listen to it and order “Only Visiting This Planet” (his albums can be found here: http://www.merchantmanager.com/phydeaux/MM003.ASP?pageno=27) in the near future — and pull out my two boxes of Christian rock music tapes and get together a list of a handful of other tapes I need to get on CD.
