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〕 }} ''Only Visiting This Planet'' is an album recorded by Larry Norman in 1972. The album was selected as the second album in (CCM Magazine )'s ''The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music''.〔 〕 In April 2014 the album was announced as one of 25 sound recordings inducted for 2013 into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, that preserves as "cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures, representing the richness and diversity of the American soundscape",〔("Hallelujah, the 2013 National Recording Registry Reaches 400" ), "News from the Library of Congress" (April 2, 2014).〕 making it the first Christian rock album chosen for the registry.〔("U2, Linda Ronstadt among 25 albums to be preserved" ), ''The Washington Post'' (April 2, 2014).〕 ==History== On 8 September 1972 Norman began recording his second studio album,〔Michel Ruppli and Ed Novitsky, ''The MGM Labels: A Discography, 1961 - 1982'' Vol. 2 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998):762.〕 ''Only Visiting This Planet'',〔For comments about each song, see "PLANET: SONG BY SONG", http://www.onlyvisiting.com/music/discography/Only_Visiting/visiting.songs.html〕 the first album in a projected trilogy,〔''Only Visiting This Planet'', ''So Long Ago the Garden'', and ''In Another Land'' are commonly referred to as "The Trilogy."〕〔(''Larry Norman - So Long Ago The Garden'' ) ''newmusicplease.com'' 2006-08-28 retrieved 2007-12-27〕 in AIR Studios in London.〔"Larry in the UK", http://www.larrynorman.uk.com/inuk.html〕 ''Only Visiting This Planet'', often ranked as Norman's best album,〔CBNmusic, "Larry Norman", http://www.cbn.com/cbnmusic/artists/norman_larry.aspx〕 "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 a 1980 interview, Norman explained its purpose: ''Only Visiting This Planet'' is the first part of the trilogy, and represents the present. On the front cover, I find myself standing in the middle of New York City, with buildings and traffic pressed around me and my hand on my head kind of saying, What is going on in this life? Is this really earth?, and the back cover is me visiting the site of a previous civilisation with its own monoliths, not skyscrapers, but amazing, architecturally sound structures just the same. The Druids apparently constructed Stonehenge to help them observe or worship the sun, and their civilisation is now as dead as will someday be New York. And I'm just standing there, looking around, wondering what happened to kill off this culture and reduce its entire recorded history to a few standing structures.〔Larry Norman, in "New Music Interview 1980 Part 3", http://dagsrule.com/stuff/larry/intvw80c.html To see the cover and its various releases and versions, see Robert Termorshuizen (with updates by Jim Böthel), "Only Visiting This Planet (1972)", http://www.meetjesushere.com/Only_Visiting_This_Planet.htm〕 On 6 January 1973 Norman was one of three named as Best New Male Artist of the year by ''Cashbox''.〔 Marc Eliot and Mike Appel, ''Down Thunder Road: The Making of Bruce Springsteen'' (Simon & Schuster, 1993):101. The others were Bruce Springsteen and Elliott Murphy.〕 By February 1973 songs from ''Only Visiting This Planet'' had been recommended by ''Billboard'' for "heavy Top 40 airplay",〔"Special Merit Picks", ''Billboard'' (10 February 1973):64.〕 and were being played on WVVS-FM, KSHE-FM, and WKTK-FM.〔"Billboard FM Action", ''Billboard'' (17 February 1973):18.〕 In 1990 CCM magazine voted ''Only Visiting This Planet'' as "the greatest Christian album ever recorded".〔Matthew Dickerson, "Home At Last", in Larry Norman, "Blue Book", (1989):16; Bob Gersztyn, "Jesus and Larry and Me", ''The Wittenburg Door'', http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/larry-norman〕 ''Only Visiting This Planet'' was one of 25 sound recordings inducted for 2013 into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, that preserves as "cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures, representing the richness and diversity of the American soundscape."〔("Hallelujah, the 2013 National Recording Registry Reaches 400" ), "News from the Library of Congress" (April 2, 2014).〕 A statement by the Library of Congress called the album "the key work in the early history of Christian rock," describing Norman as one who "commented on the world as he saw it from his position as a passionate, idiosyncratic outsider to mainstream churches."〔("Christian rock pioneer’s album added to National Recording Registry" ), ''The Washington post'' (April 2, 2014).〕 After a tour of South Africa in June and the UK in July,〔"Norman Tour of U.K., S. Africa", ''Billboard'' (26 May 1973):22.〕 and the release in July of his "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?", a songbook featuring some of Norman's songs from both ''Upon This Rock'' and ''Only Visiting This Planet''.〔Larry Norman, ''Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music Songbook'' (Los Angeles, CA: One Way, 1972), http://www.meetjesushere.com/songbooks_&_sheet_musics.htm; The songbook was published by One Way Publications (see "Inside Track", ''Billboard'' (7 July 1973):66) and released in 1972 (see Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music (1972?), http://www.meetjesushere.com/songbooks_&_sheet_musics.htm)〕 In the song "Reader's Digest" Norman sings the following verse: "Dear John, who's more popular now? I´ve been listening to some of Paul's new records. Sometimes I think he really is dead." (see Paul is dead) "Who's more popular now?" makes reference to John Lennon's famous claim that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. The album features King Crimson prog-rock bassist and Asia frontman, John Wetton on bass guitar. A three-LP boxed set containing the entire trilogy in their originally intended forms and titled ''The Compleat Trilogy'' (as mentioned on the insert of the Street Level reissue of ''Only Visiting This Planet'') has never been released. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Only Visiting This Planet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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