Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?, Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock

The riveting, untold story of the "Father of Christian Rock," the dawn of America's culture wars, and the conflicts that launched a billion-dollar industry. In 1969, in a London studio rented by Capitol Records, a mercurial, blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like the Who, Janis Joplin, and the Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus. Billboard called Norman "the most important songwriter since Paul Simon," and his music would go on to inspire artists as diverse as U2, The Pixies, Guns 'N Roses, and more. To a young generation of Christians who wanted a way to be different in the American cultural scene, Larry was a godsendspinning songs about one's eternal soul as deftly as he did ones...