This thing is heavy and high quality and will last a lifetime. The box is made of high quality stiff board material not a flexible card-stock. If that isn't special enough, all 50 songs were curated by founding member Bob Hartman and span the entire career. It is also the first time Petra has ever released a vinyl box set. This is the most comprehensive collection of Petra music ever put together. The 50th Anniversary Collection of the worlds most beloved Christian rock band.12 page Book includes photos, collage, reflections from Bob Hartman and John Schlitt and Petra story.50 Career-Spanning Tracks Curated by Bob Hartman.5-LP Vinyl Record Box Set in Hard Slip Case Box.Although their version is a straightforward cover of the original, it has the title “God Gave Rock ‘N’ Roll to You II. Kiss performed a cover of the track for the second film in the Bill & Ted trilogy, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. “God Gave Rock and Roll to You” might have remained in obscurity if not for a certain 1990s film. How the world reacted to Kiss’ version of ‘God Gave Rock and Roll to You’ During that decade, some Christians saw the genre as inherently immoral. The fact that a Christian band could sing the lyrics “God Gave rock ‘n’ roll to you” without incident shows how the public perception of rock ‘n’ roll changed a lot since the 1950s. Given the lyrics of the song have to do with God, the track actually works as a Christian song - which isn’t something you could say about a lot of other rock songs. A Christian rock band named Petra covered the track for their album Come Join Us and their cover arguably became more famous than the original. Whereas, if you settle for a job to pay the bills, it’s very sad.” How ‘God Gave Rock and Roll to You’ became a Christian rock songĪrgent’s released their version of the track but it wasn’t the final one. With the lyric, I was saying that we live on this incredible planet, and when you find a passion, this world makes sense. It probably only took twenty minutes to write it. “It was wonderful to feel myself come out of that depression,” Ballard recalls. During that period, I remember writing ‘I Don’t Believe In Miracles,’ and at the end of the song I just put my head down on the piano keys and cried.” “My parents had both been really ill my dad had prostate cancer, my mum had bowel cancer, at the same time. “I felt blissful when I started writing ‘God Gave Rock and Roll to You,’ and that was the opposite of how I’d felt the year before,” he said. During an interview with Loudersound, Ballard explained the origin of the track, “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You.” However, one of their songs was originally written by Russ Ballard of the band Argent. Kiss was not a band like The Monkees which generally left their songwriting duties to other people. Kiss | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images This Kiss song was written as its writer was coming out of depression Here’s a look at the story behind a Kiss song that became famous because of a hit 1990s movie. Despite this, one of their hits was a Christian rock song at one point. Kiss has made great music in a number of genres, however, they aren’t known for making Christian rock.
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