"LEAD: ONE night after a concert at Disneyland, the soul singer Al Green had a conversion experience. He woke up in his hotel room, feeling as he never had before or since, shouting 'Hallelujah!' Over the next two years, he vacillated between what he calls 'a million-dollar career' and his calling to sing gospel music. One night after a concert at Disneyland, the soul singer Al Green had a conversion experience. He woke up in his hotel room, feeling as he never had before or since, shouting 'Hallelujah!' Over the next two years, he vacillated between what he calls 'a million-dollar career' and his calling to sing gospel music. After a spurned lover dumped boiling grits on him and then shot herself, Mr. Green bought himself the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church in Memphis, gave up his secular love songs and turned to the gospel full-time."
NY Times
YouTube: Gospel According To Al Green 1987 1:35:37
July 2008: Wikipedia, Al Green, 2011 April: Al Green
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