Mark Farner
Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 10 August 1989
"THE TRUE JOY that I have now comes from knowing Jesus Christ as my Savior and my Lord, and rendering my life in servitude to him." So says Mark Farner, who was anything but a choirboy during his tenure as guitarist and singer with Grand Funk.
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