![]() YOU CAN LOVE THE ROCK, AND LET HIM FREE YOU SOUL, OR YOU CAN LET THE OLD MAN TAKE HIS TOLL, IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR MIND. (REPEAT) YOU CAN LEARN TO DANCE OR YOU CAN BE A SQUARE, YOU CAN LET THE MUSIC TAKE YOU ANYWHERE BUT WHERE WILL YOU BE WHEN THE MUSIC'S GONE? YOU CAN LEARN TO SING OR YOU CAN PLAY GUITAR, YOU CAN LEARN TO ROCK, YOU CAN BE A STAR, BUT WHERE WILL YOU GO WHEN THE MUSIC'S GONE? CHORUS IF YOU LOVE THE SOUND THEN DON'T FORGET THE SOURCE, YOU CAN TURN AROUND, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR COURSE, 'CAUSE IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR MIND. Chorus God gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you Put it in the soul of everyone. tuning GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU, GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU, PUT IT IN THE SOUL OF EVERYONE. Russ Ballard’s It’s Good To Be Here is out now (opens in new tab) via BMG Records, and he tours Europe from March 13.This song, was made famous by the band KISS but most people don't know who actually the original. And that line: ‘If you’re young and you’ll never be old, music can make your dreams unfold’, I still believe that. “I think the song will resonate for the next hundred years,” he considers, “whether people want to believe there’s a god or not. Russ Ballard believes God Gave Rock And Roll To You’s message lives on, now more than ever. I believed that he could somehow turn things around. Eric showed up and stayed until the very end of the video shoot, which lasted until three in the morning. “We were concerned about whether he was healthy enough or strong enough to do it. “When it came time to shoot the video, Eric begged to be in it, even though he hadn’t played on the record,” Simmons wrote in his book Kiss And Make-Up. Touchingly, God Gave Rock And Roll To You II marked the final contribution to Kiss of drummer Eric Carr before he succumbed to heart cancer, aged just 41. God knows how much money that song has made me, but it’s probably bought me my house."Īlthough Kiss reached No.4 in the UK with their version, in January 1992, for once the song’s commercial performance was not Simmons’s chief concern. ![]() Apparently, Gene said on the TV show School Of Rock: ‘When I wrote God Gave Rock And Roll To You…’ But at least the royalties are good. I don’t mind that most people think it’s a Kiss song. 'God Gave Rock and Roll to You' was covered, with additional lyrics not found in the original recording, by American Christian rock band Petra for their 1977 album Come and Join Us and their 1984 album Beat the System. “Funnily enough, when I wrote the song, it was about the speed Kiss made it. God gave rock and roll to you Gave rock and roll to you Put it in the soul of everyone God gave rock and roll to you Gave rock and roll to you Saved rock and roll for everyone Love your friend and love your neighbour Love you life and love your labor No it's never too late to change your mind Don't step on snails, don't climb in trees Love. “That new lyric was more universal, perfect for what Kiss were doing,” he says. ![]() Now, instead of the quaint instruction to ‘ love your friend and love your neighbour/Don’t step on snails, don’t climb in trees/Love Cliff Richard but please don’t tease’, listeners were urged to ‘ put your faith in a loud guitar’. The tweaked title of Kiss’s version, God Gave Rock & Roll To You II, denoted that the New Yorkers had raised the tempo and rewritten the verse lyric. That evening, when they came on, I was in the wings, and suddenly Kiss walk up in their makeup and platform heels, about seven-and-ahalf feet tall. Kiss lyrics to Rock songs at AZ music lyrics site. At the sound-check, they weren’t in any slap. Verse 2: Davido Pretty know you hold my love (Oh) I swear to God I wouldnt fucking run Both front. “One night in about 1973, we were playing in New York with Wishbone Ash and Kiss,” he remembers. Unrest remade the song as God Gave Rock &. They tried out a few bands, then came back and said: ‘ Kiss are going to do it.’”īy this time Ballard had already made the acquaintance of Gene Simmons and co. The song was remade by Kiss as God Gave Rock N Roll to You II for the film Bill & Teds Bogus Journey in 1991. Nigel told me he was collating the soundtrack, and he’d suggested God Gave Rock And Roll To You for the final scene. Then in the early 90s, Ballard was sitting in the lobby of a US record label, when former Blondie bassist Nigel Harrison stopped and told him about an upcoming movie called Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the sequel to a hit comedy about two rock-obsessed slackers, played by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
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