![]() ![]() Martin Gore was admittedly inspired to write the song after reading ‘ Elvis and Me‘ (1985) that Priscilla wrote with the little help of her ghostwriter Sandra Harmon. ![]() According to Johnny Cash a ‘gospel’ and “ the most evangelical song I have ever recorded”, it remains to this day the perfect song Nick Cave still wishes to write and re-enacts on his TV-preacher-style concert shows.īut Personal Jesus is not about said one from the Bible, it is a song about being a Jesus for somebody else in a love relationship, and it is even inspired by a prominent real life couple: Elvis and Priscilla Presley. ![]() It is on Depeche Mode‘s smoldering masterpiece Violator (1990) where you find Personal Jesus, released as the album’s lead-single and becoming the biggest-selling 12-inch single in Warner Bros. ![]()
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