It was early 1973, and as Russ Ballard sat down at the piano in his parents’ Hertfordshire home, the Argent guitarist felt the stirring of an emotion he thought he’d lost.
“I felt blissful when I started writing God Gave Rock And Roll To You,” he reflects, “and that was the opposite of how I’d felt the year before. My parents had both been really ill; my dad had prostate cancer, my mum had bowel cancer, at the same time. I’d felt so low. During that period, I remember writing I Don’t Believe In Miracles, and at the end of the song I just put my head down on the piano keys and cried.”
