Memories Of Larry Norman, the fallen Angel. 'I wish we'd all been ready.'
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Thoughts on this rather legendary figure from my past Somebody who also screwed up, had children, got divorced and finally faced their own mortality. It seems to me we are here for so little time, so if you love somebody tell them now!
While I appreciate the sentiment behind the last few sentences where you bring things back to grace, as someone who knew Larry without claiming to know everything about Larry I was disturbed by how casually you attacked Larry's integrity because you had seen some of the hoohah in the media about the abysmal Fallen Angel documentary. The last I heard the posthumous paternity case had been dropped and the courts didn't order a DNA test... and I suppose the comment about imagine what went on with groupies after concerts was the one which provoked this reply. I attended 12 concerts in the UK from 1991-2001 and Larry often stayed behind after gigs to talk and pray with people and sign LPs, tapes and videos and often gave people lots of freebies. On a few occasions I was with Larry when he took fans and promoters and volunteers out for a late night meal after a concert and after the meal people all went to their own homes. I don't think anyone, even in the Fallen Angel hatchet job claimed that Larry slept with groupies but you seem to have slackly added this, chinese whispers style, to the internet rumours! Larry's first wife is working on a book to respond to how her interviews were chopped up and edited out of context and to focus on how they made their peace with each other before Larry passed. Larry and all his family refused to be part of the documentary, as did his personal assistant for many years, his second wife and as did European promoters he worked with for 15 years, musicians who recorded and toured with him for 30 years and yet the documentary claims it is the untold true story of Larry's life from the people who knew him best - and these are either a few members of a band he was in for 2 years in the 60s (and half of them didn't take part in the film) or some of the old Solid Rock roster of singers and bands who worked with Larry for less than 5 years (sometimes for less than 3 years while Larry was away touring and recording during that time and so were the bands). To see how the perspective of a documentary maker can skew people's interviews have a read at Mike Rimmer's interview in Cross Rhythms with Tom Howard and compare it with the bits in Fallen Angel which made the cut. In the Cross Rhythms interview Tom mentions things he didn't like or understand in his dealing with Larry before the record label got wound up, but he also spent a lot of time speaking warmly about Larry's positive influence on his life as well (none of which made the cut in the movie). There's a biography being released in March 2018 which I think will give a far more balanced and factual account of Larry's life.
Yes. My late husband worked closely with Larry from the early 1970's until he came off the road due to ill health. They were very close friends. There was never a hint of any bad behaviour. He was always as you described..back stage, and the band travelled and stayed wherever as one man, so to speak. Those bad mouthing him after his death are shameful. I don't know what their problems are but Larry definitely didn't cause them. He was generous beyond measure. I doubt they'll ever admit to how badly they treated him. Out of the whole sorry bunch his first wife is the only one who clearly actually loved him. As for the other wife...the poor, little, innocent country girl...oh, pulleeaassee. Ah, well. As Larry did... I'll stay silent of the sins of others, publicly.
He ministered to me and many youths way back in africa.God used him and i hold him with intergrity despite all this character assasination.
i was introduced to it by a former converted drug addict in a christian album store ..was all strange to me...most christians I met were not exaclty fully practicing to say the least..I walked into the store thinking it was a Sam the Record Man type store..I was looking for Beatles Let It Be album on sale I was about 15 ears of age..actually I came to like Normans music ok...and later found it good...I still think its good music...and found out one album was produced by George Martin Beatles producer...Larry looked ok on his deathbed to me..as for al
the stories about him doesnt interest me really..his message was pretty good ...even if people feel the messenger wrong he had talent obviously....
I hope none of this was true. I loved Larry Norman. I love the album “Something New Under the Sun.”
Larry’s Eschatology was completely off the mark….so very Evangelical Fundamentalist of him.
i think Larry would desire you also recieve Christ...nice sentiment ...friend
What does that even mean?
Where did this guy get his info from?Another planet?I definitely won't buy the fallen angel video now.
If you believe in Hope...You have Faith my Friend.. and you aren't an agnostic..Jesus said..."If you have Faith as small as a mustard seed"...Larry's in Heaven...Where he would wish all would go...Jesus said you must be humbled as a child...
You're wrong on a couple of fronts. Hope and faith, 2 differ meanings. With hope, one would go on "expecting." With faith, now that's "knowing" without evidence. With Norman, you have "hope" that he is in heaven, not faith considering you do not know.
"this is really just to remember you". try "this is really just to slander you". Maybe before posting something on UA-cam you need to do some research. (Possibly sitting up straight rather than lying back on your couch when recording a video might help, too). Larry didn't die of terminal cancer, he died of heart failure, for which he had been hospitalized over 13 times. He wasn't gaunt at the end, he was puffy and swollen as his organs were all shutting down. That usually happens when heart starts to fail. I direct you to thetruthaboutlarrynorman.com and Allen Flemming's account of Larry's final days in the article "Goodbye, my friends, goodbye".
Interesting
huh?
What language is this gentleman speaking in? It all just sounds like mumbles. Can't make sense of any of it.
My friend that is Cockney, listen to Long John Baldry then not only will you be understand this guy but you might be speaking Cockney. Enjoy the music my friend, all of this coming from an American not a Brit. ua-cam.com/video/Bj_lZ4hkJd8/v-deo.htmlsi=q1V2Rs3ICB3Iw67p