In 1976 he played piano on Larry Norman's album In Another Land, in particular on the song " The Sun Began to Rain.

Stonehill's self-composed song " Norman's Kitchen " released initially in 1971 on his Born Twice, his debut album, describes the circumstances.

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.

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.

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 2004 Sessions album, which had six previously unreleased Norman songs ( including covers of an old hymn, a traditional folk song, and songs by Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris ) that were backed by Mark Lemhouse and Charles Norman's Softcore, as well as rare songs by Jesus Music veterans Dave Mattson, Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Keith Green, Steve ' N ' Stonebrooke, and Daniel Amos, was sent to those who contributed $ 100 or more to his medical fund.

In August 1985 Norman and his wife Sarah had their only child, Michael David Fariah Finch Norman, who was born ten weeks prematurely in Los Angeles, After Michael's birth Sarah was diagnosed with post-partum depression, which inspired Norman's song " Baby's Got the Blues ", which was released on Stranded in Babylon in 1991.

Black's solo album Frank Black and the Catholics, recorded in 1997 and released in 1998, featured a cover of Larry Norman's song " Six-Sixty-Six.

The pair performed Norman's 1978 song " Watch What You're Doing.

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!

Genuine musical performances by guest stars were countered by Norman's own unique interpretations of popular songs – he specialised in portraying his lyrics through mime and sign language and frequently punctuated the song with ' dramatic ' interjections.

in 1988, which brought some attention and contained a new version of " Rock Away Your Tear Drops ", the song that was initially the title track to Norman's debut album.

A cover version of Larry Norman's Rapture-themed " I Wish We'd All Been Ready " appears in the Evangelical Christian feature film A Thief in the Night and appeared on Cliff Richard's Christian album Small Corners along with " Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music ?".

* " Norman's Dreamtime " – a mock-fairytale segment in which Gunston regaled a group of increasingly bored children with readings from a book of iconic Australian fables, with titles such as " Why Underpants Ride Up "

Norman's dreamtime segment: " Why underpants ride up ".

Norman's dreamtime: " Why the orange juice gets swished around in that glass thing ".

Norman's dreamtime: " Why Aunty Pat took the kittens to the vet ".

The series, which satirised many aspects of Australian culture and show business, was a mixture of live and pre-recorded interviews, awkward musical segments – excruciatingly sung by Gunston himself in the broadest ' strine ' accent – and continuing comedy sketches such as " Norman's Dreamtime " ( in which Norman read stories to a group of children, such as " Why Underpants Ride Up ").

* " A Thief In The Night " introduces Larry Norman's hit " I Wish We'd All Been Ready ", one of the earliest Christian rock hits and one of Norman's best-known releases.

Norman's Top 40 chart hits included his interpretation of the Tom Jones classic " Delilah ", the punk rock send-up " I Might Be A Punk But I Love You, Baby " and " We're All Marching In The KISS Army ", a parody of the KISS single " I Was Made For Loving You ".

This film includes Larry Norman's composition I Wish We'd All Been Ready, one of the earliest Christian rock hits and one of Norman's best-known releases.

Believing that " Kids just don't want to listen to God's empty songs anymore ", in December 1969 Capitol released Norman's first solo rock album, Upon This Rock, " the first major label record to marry rock music with the gospel ", " the Sergeant Pepper of Christianity ", widely regarded as " the album that first recruited rock in the service of salvation ", later cited as being " one of the roots of the current Contemporary Christian Music "; and now considered to be the first full-blown Christian rock album ".

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.

The Gospel Music Association said: Larry Norman's music – an unlikely mix of love songs, the Gospel message, and wry commentary on American culture – exemplified the goals, ideals, and standards of everything the original architects of contemporary Christian music intended for it to be.

" were featured in the Supermode song " Tell Me Why ".

At one point, Dell is singing along with a cassette recording of Busey singing the song " Why Baby Why " ( which Busey recorded, but still remains unreleased ).

Their song, " Why Can't I Touch It " was played in the second episode of the sixth season of TV series Entourage.

On the album, she sings the song Eleven Days, as well as the duet Why Don't You Love Me with Tori Amos.

*" Helena ", 2005 song by Nickel Creek from the album Why Should the Fire Die?

through to the mid-1980s, contained the autobiographical song, " Why Can't You Be Good?

Later in 1986, Norman was signed to Benson Records, and made a cameo appearance in a music video with Christian artist Geoff Moore and the Distance for a cover version of his song " Why Should the Devil ( Have all the Good Music ?)".

Songwriter Bob Hartman, credits Norman and his 1972 song " Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

In addition, the transatlantic broadcast from Wembley Stadium suffered technical problems and failed during The Who's performance of their song " My Generation ", immediately after Roger Daltrey sang " Why don't you all fade ..." ( the last word was cut off when a blown fuse caused the Wembley stage TV feed to temporarily fail ).

Larry Norman addressed this culture clash in his 1972 song, " Why Should The Devil Have All the Good Music?

The song " Why?

Merchant and Santiago adapted one of the letters into a song called " Why Do Fools Fall in Love ".

The same year Lymon joined the group, he helped Santiago and Merchant rewrite a song they'd composed to create " Why Do Fools Fall In Love ".

They claim that they are entitled to compensation for Pepsi's use of the song " Why Can ’ t We Be Friends?

They have so far composed two songs for her, and she has covered their song, " No Reason Why ".

The Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards produced single " Why ", from the soundtrack to the 1982 film Soup for One, was a top-ten hit single in the U. K. but stalled at # 74 in the U. S. She had another minor U. K. success with the single " Kissing With Confidence ", a song off the 1983 album Dancing For Mental Health by Will Powers ( a pseudonym for photographer Lynn Goldsmith ).

* The song " This Is Why I'm Hot " by MIMS has the line " I hit Wash Heights with the money in the bag ".

* She appeared on Sesame Street performing alongside Elmo to the song " Don't Know Why ".

" and " Hold me Now " respectively ), and also for writing Linda Martin's 1992 winning song " Why Me ?".

Linda Martin, representing Ireland, was the winner of this Eurovision with the song Why Me ?.

: Interlocutor: I'm astonished at you, Why, the idea of a man of your mental calibre talking about such sordid matters, right after listening to such a beautiful song!

J Church's album Prophylaxis features a song called " Why I Liked Bikini Kill ", a response to criticisms of the band and their message.