‘I was working as a cook when it went to No 1’ : how Norman Greenbaum made Spirit in the Sky

20 octobre 2025 | Interviews by Dave Simpson
‘My label said a four-minute single with lyrics about Jesus would never get played on radio. But, in 1969, the song sold two million copies. It’s now been No 1 in three different decades’ Spirit in the Sky started as an old blues riff I’d been playing since my college days in Boston, but I (…)
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