Soon after Merrick's visits to the hospital, Tom Norman's shop was closed by the police and Merrick's managers sent him to tour in Europe.

Not long after Merrick's last examination with Frederick Treves, the police closed down Norman's shop on Whitechapel Road, and Merrick's Leicester managers withdrew him from Norman's care.

By then, Tom Norman's shop on Whitechapel Road had been closed, and the Elephant Man had moved on.

The Telnarian Histories were critically and popularly regarded as an unfortunate deviation from Norman's Gor series, perhaps due to a combination of his unconvincing attempts to be a futurist ( directly introducing a large number of Imperial Roman social customs and names of early Germanic tribes into his account of a declining galactic empire, for example ) and his departing from many of the conventions of his already established Gor legacy.

He understood the ability of music to get behind people's gates, to draw them in with a beautiful melody and good words, to make people drop their defensive position to the gospel — even if for a short time — and allow God to speak to them in that moment .... Norman's songs sought to have a relevance to life on the street, establishing a rapport with the musical and social culture around him, and leading his listeners to look to Jesus for the answers in their search for meaning.

In Philip Norman's biography it is stated that his mother's family claimed to be descended from the English navigator Francis Drake.

The relationship between pioneer Christian rock musicians Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill, sometimes described as the Lennon – McCartney of Christian rock, was a controversial one during its more than forty years from its inception in 1967 until Norman's death in February 2008.

Norman's next musical was Love on Haight Street, also written in 1969, and another project that involved Norman was Bailey ; Some songs from these unreleased musicals appeared later on various albums.

In early 1972 One Way Records released Bootleg, a double album retrospective covering the previous four years of Norman's career compiled from demonstration recordings made while at Capitol, private recordings from his friends, and various interviews and live performances.

", a songbook featuring some of Norman's songs from both Upon This Rock and Only Visiting This Planet.

" In Another Land was Norman's best-selling album ever, and had the best reception of any of his albums from the Christian establishment.

In 1998 Norman performed at Flevo backed by Beam, a young Dutch band, to a mixed reception as Norman's label wanted a new set of songs to be released on another live album, Shouting In The Storm, which sold poorly in Europe, and led to GMI dropping Norman from the label.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

The relationship between pioneer Christian rock musicians Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill, sometimes described as the Lennon – McCartney of Christian rock, was a controversial one during its more than forty years from its inception in 1967 until Norman's death in February 2008.

A letter arrives from Chelsea saying that she is coming from California with her boyfriend Bill to celebrate Norman's 80th birthday.

The greatest horseshoe pitching legend emanating from the clay courts of Dimondale tells how Fred Smith Jr. would have his brother Norman place his chin atop an opposing stake while Fred would proceed to pitch ringers that would clang just inches below Norman's smiling face.

and Larry Norman's Solid Rock Records, home to such artists as Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Mark Heard, and others, leased the recordings from Word.

After this, Norman's name virtually disappeared from golf leaderboards and Norman only showed an occasional flash of his previous brilliance, perhaps due to age, shaken confidence, the new technology, the emergence of Tiger Woods and other young golfers, and / or Norman's increasing involvement in business ventures.

While in the past Norman's role in the transferring of Czech gold to the Nazi regime in March of 1939 was uncertain, careful investigation by historian David Blaazer into the Bank of England's internal memos has established that Norman knowingly authorized the transfer of Czech gold from Czechoslovakia's No. 2 account with the Bank of International Settlement to the No. 17 account, which Norman was aware was managed by the German Reichsbank.

On Saturday, September 2, 1972 Norman also performed at the Festival of Light-sponsored Festival for Jesus held in Hyde Park, London, which was filmed and released as a 50-minute documentary Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music ?, which featured Norman's 1972 song of the same name, which was written in response to the criticisms of Christian Rock music by American evangelist Bob Larson, whom Norman regularly lampooned at his concerts.

* Holland House, Bury Street, City of London ( behind Norman's Foster's " Gherkin ")

Norman's creative resurgence was cut short by a nine hour heart attack on February 28, 1992 in Los Angeles, which was initially misdiagnosed as esophagitis by the staff at Cedars Sinai Hospital, and resulted in a near fatality and permanent heart damage.

In 1946, shortly after the end of Norman's tenure, the bank was nationalised by the Labour government.

The start of the Norman Conquest was the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066 ; although the battle itself took place to the north at Senlac Hill, and William had landed on the coast between Hastings and Eastbourne at a site now known as Norman's Bay.

Aberavon was first established by Caradoc ap Iestyn ( son of Iestyn ap Gwrgant ), on the instructions of Robert Fitzhamon, after the Norman's conquest of south Wales by the end of the eleventh century.

Freeman's father Norman's father was Frank Fisher ; Norman was raised by his mother Geraldine Roy and his stepfather Claude Freeman.

On August 12, 1970 Stonehill was led to Christ by Larry Norman in the kitchen of Norman's apartment at 1140 North Gower Street, Hollywood.

For over a decade Stonehill was Norman's protégé, colleague, collaborator, and one of his best friends, but disagreements about finances and relationships resulted in a twenty-year estrangement, and a brief reconciliation.

Norman's 1969 apocalyptic song, I Wish We'd All Been Ready ”, was also featured in the 1972 Christian end times film A Thief in the Night, which was watched by an estimated 50, 000, 000 people, but sung by an obscure group known as The Fishmarket Combo.

Only Visiting This Planet, which was " Initially coordinated by George Martin ", and was produced by The Triumvirate of British producers Rod Edwards, Roger Hand, and Jon Miller, often ranked as Norman's best album, " mixed his Christian message with strong political themes ", and " was meant to reach the flower children disillusioned by the government and the church " with its " abrasive, urban reality of the gospel ".

In 1974 Norman and Kenn Gulliksen started a Bible Study in the living room of Norman's apartment at Doheny and Sunset in Los Angeles that was only for musicians and actors, including regulars Jerry Houser and Julie Harris, which after six months, was named " The Vineyard ", and later, with another Bible study at the home of Chuck Girard, became part of the founding congregation of the Association of Vineyard Churches.

Philip Mangano, who was then Norman's manager, who considers Norman " a genius, no doubt, who changed the direction, the content, and frame of " Christian " music ", who was seated in the next seat to Larry, denied that it was that serious.

One of Norman's musical influences was fellow American singer songwriter Bob Dylan, whom he knew personally but not well.

Included in this Thirty Years collection was Norman's 1986 album Down Under ( But Not Out ), which was a retrospective of " thirty years of artistry ", through both Phydeaux and Royal Music.

* Gor — An inhabited counter-Earth in John Norman's Gor series, marked by slavery and rigid gender roles.

Because of his religious convictions, Norman's father discouraged any interest in music by his children.

By 1973 over 200 " covers " had been recorded of Norman's songs, including by Cliff Richard, Jack Jones, Petula Clark, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pat Boone, The Imperials, and The Oak Ridge Boys.

At this time, Philip Mangano organized three book deals for Norman: a biography by English journalist Steve Turner, which would be published by Word ; a book of Norman's photographs ; and another with photographs of Norman.

American Christian rock historian John J. Thompson identifies several factors in the collapse of Solid Rock, including possibly an over reliance on Norman's celebrity ; Norman's confrontational lyrics and music, which alienated both the Christian and mainstream music industries ; Norman's over-commitment, including producing almost all of the Solid Rock albums, contributing songs, and singing backing vocals ; and " by releasing high-quality music by the best bands, Norman doomed his label to almost certain failure.

Home At Last, Norman's first album on a major US CCM label, was a double album that was promoted by its distributor, Benson Records, as Norman's " comeback album ", announcing " Larry Norman's Back ".

Norman's music influenced Thompson to the extent that he named the Pixies ' first EP and a lyric in the band's song " Levitate Me " after one of Norman's catchphrases, " come on, pilgrim!

After the death of his first wife, an Irish lady named Alice St. John, Norman's grandfather married Julia Calcutt ( 1756-1835 ), of Newtown Limavady, County Londonderry, " a woman of considerable personal fortitude ".