Letter To God

Letter To God is a commercial company located in Israel.

Letter To God serves people from all religions and geographical locations wanting to express their wishes, thoughts, questions and prayers to God but have limited access to the Western Wall, one of the holiest places on earth in Judaism. For centuries, people from all over the world have made pilgrimages to the sacred Wall to place a note filled with prayers and wishes in between the stones.

The service began in 2006 when Letter To God Ltd announced a service for placing letters to God, that have been written on the customer's home computer, in the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall.

On May 21, 2006, the web site was covered in the biggest newspaper in Israel (Ynetnews), .

On Dec 26, 2006, the service was chosen as a website of the year (2006) by the biggest newspaper in Israel (Ynetnews),.

The Western Wall, which was a part of the Holy Temple, was open to visiting gentiles. When King Solomon built the Temple, he asked God to heed all the prayers of those who come to the Temple (Kings I 8:41-43). The prophets refer to the Temple as a "House for all nations" (Isaiah 56.7).

XYZ (US band)

XYZ was originally created in Lyon (France) where Patt Fontaine and Terry Ilous were born and grew up. Then they moved to Los Angeles, and began a musical career in 1986. XYZ started off as the unofficial house band of "The Whiskey", a nightclub in Los Angeles. The original members were Terry Ilous (vocals), Bobby Pieper (guitars), Patt Fontaine (bass) and Joey Pafumi (drums). A tour of the US with Enuff Z'Nuff and Alice Cooper followed the success of their 1989 Enigma released debut album, and they were signed by major label Capitol for their second.

History

The band played clubs throughout the mid 1980s and first got a record deal in 1989 with Don Dokken as their producer. Terry Ilous's vocal style on the band's first album was very similar to Dokken's. Ilous and Fontaine then recruited Mark Diglio (guitars) and Paul Monroe (drums) to replace the departing Pieper and Pafumi, to record a debut album, produced by Don Dokken. The album was released in 1989 and contained the hits "Inside Out" and "What Keeps Me Loving You". Videos for both songs received reasonable airplay; however, the album itself was not an overall success, managing to reach only No. 99 on the Billboard charts. A third single from the album, "Maggy" was used in the 1990 Dolph Lundgren movie I Come in Peace. The next album, Hungry, released in 1991, had even less commercial success—not charting at all. Diglio and Monroe left the band and were replaced by Tony Burnett and Joey Shapiro, respectively. After the next tour was finished, band members went separate ways once again. They reunited in 2002 with the lineup of Ilous, Fontaine, Tony Marcus, and Shapiro, and still perform to the present day.

Letter to God (song)

"Letter to God" is a song by alternative rock band Hole, written solely by music producer Linda Perry. The song was released as the band's sixteenth single, and third and final single from their fourth studio album Nobody's Daughter, on April 20, 2010, as a digital download. It is the only Hole single not to have been written by a member of the band and was featured in the short animated film, Dark Night Of The Soul, directed by Michael Mouris.

Origin and recording

The song was written by producer Linda Perry in 2002-03, alongside the similarly-penned "Beautiful" which Hole frontwoman Courtney Love originally wanted to record, and was set aside by Perry. When she assigned as the producer for Love's second solo album How Dirty Girls Get Clean in 2005, Perry reworked — in her own words "Courtnified" — the song with Love during the original rehearsal sessions for the album. In its original recorded form; recorded at Perry's personal studio, Kung Fu Gardens Recording Studio in Hollywood, California in March 2006; the song featured Love on vocals, Perry on electric guitar, Peter Thorn on acoustic guitar, Paul Ill on bass, Kellii Scott on drums and percussion and Damon Fox on piano. In 2009, as a Hole song, the original version recorded three years prior was expanded on during the recording sessions for Nobody's Daughter, the reworked version of How Dirty Girls Get Clean. During the final recording sessions at New York's Electric Lady Studios, additional guitar and bass overdubs were added by lead guitarist Micko Larkin and bassist Shawn Dailey, respectively.