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==Awards and honors== * 1973: One of three named as Best New Male Artist of the year by ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]''.<ref name="Mike Appel 1993">{{Cite book |last1=Eliot |first1=Marc |title=Down Thunder Road: The Making of Bruce Springsteen |last2=Appel |first2=Mike |date=1993 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=101}}</ref> * 1989: Awarded the Christian Artists' Society Lifetime Achievement Award in a surprise ceremony at [[Estes Park, Colorado]].<ref name="stranded">{{Cite web |last=Ayers |first=William |title=Historical Chrono-Spective |url=http://www.onlyvisiting.com/larry/about/babylon_ayers.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031954/http://www.onlyvisiting.com/larry/about/babylon_ayers.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016}} 1991 CD booklet of the European version of ''Stranded In Babylon''.</ref><ref name="ChristianArtists">"Christian Artists' Conference, Estes Park, 1989", in Larry Norman, Blue Book, 15.</ref> * 1990: ''CCM magazine'' voted ''Only Visiting This Planet'' as "the second-greatest Christian album ever recorded".<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Jesus and Larry and Me |url=http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/larry-norman |url-status=dead |magazine=The Wittenburg Door |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602022141/http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/larry-norman |archive-date=June 2, 2015 |access-date=October 5, 2014}}</ref> * 2001: Inducted into the [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elvis, Albertina and Larry Among Chosen People In Gospel Music Hall of Fame |url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233017 |access-date=November 26, 2014 |website=BMI.com|date=September 16, 2001 }}</ref> *2001: ''Only Visiting This Planet'' was selected as the No. 2 album in CCM Magazine's ''The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music''.<ref name="100 Greatest">{{Cite book |last=Granger |first=Thom |title=The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music |publisher=[[Harvest House]] |year=2001 |isbn=0-7369-0281-3}}</ref> * 2004: Voted into the CCM Hall of Fame by readers of ''[[CCM Magazine]]''.<ref name="ccmmagazine">{{Cite magazine |title=Larry Norman |url=http://www.ccmmagazine.com/news/stories/11534452/archive2/larry%20norman/ |magazine=CCM Magazine |access-date=October 5, 2014}} {{dead link |date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> * 2007: Inducted into the ''San Jose Rocks Hall of Fame'', both as a member of People!, and as a solo artist. At that time Norman reunited for a concert with People!<ref name="SJMN">{{Cite news |last=Quillen |first=Shay |date=October 17, 2007 |title=Local legends on stage |work=[[Mercury News]] |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/shayquillen/ci_7205393?nclick_check=1 |access-date=December 27, 2007}}</ref> * 2008: Honored at the 39th [[GMA Dove Award]] ceremony in [[Nashville, Tennessee]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Longoria |first=Richard |date=April 24, 2008 |title=Dove Awards |url=http://www.kiiitv.com/news/religion/18150514.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719232406/http://www.kiiitv.com/news/religion/18150514.html |archive-date=July 19, 2008 |publisher=[[KIII]]}}</ref> * 2009: Honored in a tribute segment at the [[2009 Grammy Awards|Grammy Awards]].<ref name="larrynorman.com">{{Cite web |date=February 8, 2009 |title=News: Larry Norman honored at Grammy Awards |url=http://www.larrynorman.com/news.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122061611/http://www.larrynorman.com/news.html |archive-date=November 22, 2009 |access-date=October 5, 2014 |website=Larry Norman.com}}</ref> * 2013: ''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."<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2, 2014 |title=Hallelujah, the 2013 National Recording Registry Reaches 400 |url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2014/14-052.html |website=The Library of Congress}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 3, 2014 |title=Christian rock pioneer's album added to National Recording Registry |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/religion-news-in-brief/2014/04/02/2ddf56bc-ba81-11e3-80de-2ff8801f27af_story.html |url-status=dead |access-date=January 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403100535/http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/religion-news-in-brief/2014/04/02/2ddf56bc-ba81-11e3-80de-2ff8801f27af_story.html |archive-date=April 3, 2014}}</ref>
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