![]() ![]() I’m not a scientist or an expert but I believe that, as human beings, we are attached. How I wrote ‘God Gave Rock And Roll To You’ in Songwriting Magazine Autumn 2020 Somebody says a joke and you laugh at it, or somebody says something pertinent, or people can upset you… And when it comes to songs, I think you get the same feelings. “I was always using those chords, they give me a buzz – they’ve been on thousands of No 1s and always seem to work, like A Whiter Shade Of Pale. In the 60s it was E, A and B7 – Summer Lovin’, Twist And Shout. But I think the key is in the lyric, I believe it’s the soul of the song. If you haven’t got the right lyrics, it ain’t gonna be a hit anyway, so say something in a different way and use the same chords. “Kiss changed the first verse but I think they got it right. ![]() I mean, ‘Put your faith in a loud guitar…’ is more rock ‘n’ roll. I was trying to be, what I am, very loving and funny – I was trying to express my feelings more than anything. But they got it right because they made it a real rock song and they sped it up. I always thought ours was too slow and while we were rehearsing it I said it should be more ‘up’. I think Kiss spent time getting that tempo absolutely spot on.” Russ Ballard’s album It’s Good To Be Here is out now via BMG. Find out more at russballardmusic.The television preacher Jimmy Swaggart became a Christian megastar in the 1980s broadcasting from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His popular crusades and regular services appeared on television sets across the United States and around the world. At its peak, his ministry was taking in over one million dollars a week. He had honed a brash, bold, loud style of preaching that made him a revered figure, both in the context of the Assemblies of God – a group of affiliated churches that formed the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination – and in the broader world of evangelicalism. Critics reviled his holier-than-thou pulpit posturing and his bellicosity. ![]() Some stations even took him off the air for his religious and cultural bigotry. Like many other Pentecostal preachers – who were moving into politics at a rapid rate – Swaggart believed that the Holy Ghost emboldened him to witness the arrow-straight truths of the Bible. ![]()
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