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THE FACTS
RELEASE DATE
March 24, 1973
HIGHEST
CHART
once the song’s commercial performance book Kiss And Make-Up. “We were Russ Ballard believes God Gave Rock And POSITION
was not Simmons’s chief concern. concerned about whether he was healthy Roll To You’s message lives on, now more UK No.8
PERSONNEL
Touchingly, God Gave Rock And Roll To You II enough or strong enough to do it. But we than ever. “I think the song will resonate
marked the final contribution to Kiss of agreed. Eric showed up and stayed until for the next hundred years,” he considers, Rod Argent
drummer Eric Carr before he succumbed the very end of the video shoot, which “whether people want to believe there’s Organ, vocals
Russ Ballard
to heart cancer, aged just 41. “When it lasted until three in the morning. He never a god or not. For me, music has been my Guitar, vocals
came time to shoot the video, Eric begged complained, not once. I believed that he saviour. God gave rock’n’roll to me, Jim Rodford
to be in it, even though he hadn’t played could somehow turn things around. It was basically. That’s what I was trying to say. Bass, vocals
on the record,” Simmons wrote in his not to be.” And that line: ‘If you’re young and you’ll never Robert Henrit
be old, music can make your dreams unfold’, Drums
WRITTEN BY
I still believe that.” Russ Ballard
“Music has been my saviour. That line: ‘If Russ Ballard’s It’s Good To Be Here PRODUCED BY
Chris White,
you’re young and you’ll never be old, music can is released on February 21 via BMG Rod Argent
Records, and he tours Europe from March LABEL
make your dreams unfold’, I still believe that.” 13. See www.russballardmusic.com Epic

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