Editing Larry Norman (section)

==''Fallen Angel'' documentary==
''Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman: A Bible Story'' is a controversial 2008 documentary on Norman's life by filmmaker David Di Sabatino. ''Fallen Angel'' includes interviews with several people who had worked with or been close to Norman thirty years earlier, including his first wife and Randy Stonehill, who recorded the film's official soundtrack, ''Paradise Sky''.<ref name="OCWeekly20081015">{{Cite news |last=Coker |first=Matt |title=David Di Sabatino Is Drawn to Charismatic Christians. But Nothing Prepared Him for Larry Norman |work=[[Orange County Weekly]] |url=http://www.ocweekly.com/content/printVersion/262831 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608163653/http://www.ocweekly.com/content/printVersion/262831/ |archive-date=June 8, 2011}}</ref><ref name="saraco">{{Cite web |title=Paradise Sky – official soundtrack to the movie Fallen Angel |url=http://www.tollbooth.org/2009/reviews/stonehill.html |access-date=October 5, 2014 |website=The Phantom Tollbooth.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Randy And Larry |url=http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/news/Randy_And_Larry/34741/p1/ |access-date=October 5, 2014 |website=Cross Rhythms}}</ref>

Norman and his second wife had refused to participate in or cooperate with the project.<ref name="OCWeekly20081015" /><ref name="jmvet">{{Cite web |last=Rimmer |first=Mike |date=November 1, 2009 |title=Randy Stonehill: The Jesus Music Veteran on the Fallen Angel Movie and his Latest Music |url=http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/Randy_Stonehill_The_Jesus_music_veteran_on_the_Fallen_Angel_movie_and_his_latest_music/37818/p1/ |website=Cross Rhythms}}</ref> A [[cease and desist]] notice initiated by Norman's family temporarily prevented the film's public screening, and prompted Di Sabatino to file his own lawsuit against Solid Rock in March 2009.<ref name="case">{{Cite web |title=David Di Sabatino v. Rock Solid Productions Inc |url=http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-cacdce/case_no-8:2009cv00357/case_id-440025/ |access-date=October 5, 2014 |website=[[Justia]]}}</ref> Four months later, the case was settled out of court, allowing the film to be shown.<ref name=case/><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 20, 2010 |title=Belcourt shows film tonight about Christian rock pioneer Larry Norman |work=[[The Tennessean]] |url=http://www.tennessean.com/print/article/20100420/NEWS06/4160352/Belcourt-shows-film-tonight-about-Christian-rock-pioneer-Larry-Norman}} {{dead link |date=November 2014}}</ref> While interviewing Stonehill, ''Cross Rhythms''{{'}} Mike Rimmer said the film portrayed Norman as "[[Machiavelli]]an, particularly in his dealings with his artists."<ref name=jmvet/>

Norman's Solid Rock Records was said to have ended when, "Things finally fell apart in 1979, after it was discovered Larry was cheating on his wife – and having an affair with Randy's wife",<ref name="canadianchristianity.com" /> {{dead link |date=November 2021}} a claim Norman's brother denies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 1, 2012 |title=Charles Norman: Talking about Larry Norman and the Fallen Angel documentary |url=http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/Charles_Norman__Talking_about_Larry_Norman_and_the_Fallen_Angel_documentary_/48678/p2 |website=Cross Rhythms}}</ref> Gregory Alan Thornbury's biography of Norman proposes an alternate date and reason for Solid Rock Records being wound up and the artists released from their contracts. Word Records signalled they planned to end their relationship with Solid Rock due to poor sales performances of a few of the albums and the infrequent nature of releases being delivered by the label and this news led to a breakdown in the working and personal relationship between Larry Norman and Philip Mangano in May 1980. Some discussions had already begun about certain artists being released from their contracts prior to the meeting on June 17, 1980, which was called to "clear up the relationship between Solid Rock and Street Level Artists Agency, and to deal with Daniel Amos' request to have all their contracts back from Solid Rock — management, recording, tapes, publishing, and so on" and which ended two hours later in stalemate and acrimony rather than resolution.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Thornbury |first=Gregory Alan |title=Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music: Larry Norman & The Perils of Christian Rock |publisher=Convergent Books |year=2018 |pages=180–202}}</ref>