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interj. Expresses exasperation; for Pete's sake; for crying out loud; for fuck's sake; sakes
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"For the Love of God" is an instrumental guitar piece by Steve Vai. It is the seventh song on Vai's 1990 album Passion and Warfare. The track was voted #29 in a readers' poll of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time for the magazine Guitar World. The piece, which runs for just over six minutes, features a number of techniques, including whammy bar tricks, harmonics, fast legato runs and sweep-picking. Vai recorded it on the fourth day of a 10-day fast because "I do try to push myself into relatively altered states of consciousness. Because in those states you can come up with things that are unique even for yourself".
Vai has performed an arrangement of this piece with The Metropole Orchestra in the Netherlands, a nine-minute version of this arrangement by Chris Opperman can be found on his Sound Theories album.
The first live performance of this song was in Seville, Spain, during the "Leyendas de la Guitarra" (Guitar Legends) festival in 1991.
David Coverdale makes a guest appearance in this song, speaking the phrase "Walking the fine line... between Pagan... and Christian", after the song ends.
It is one of the songs in the DLC Guitar Hero Virtuoso Pack, available for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Also, a live version (from his 2009 live album, Where the Wild Things Are) is available for download for the Rock Band series of games, through the Rock Band Network.
For the Love of God is a sculpture by artist Damien Hirst produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead that is known as the Skull Star Diamond. The skull's teeth are original, and were purchased by Hirst in London. The artwork is a Memento mori, or reminder of the mortality of the viewer. In 2007, art historian Rudi Fuchs, observed: 'The skull is out of this world, celestial almost. It proclaims victory over decay. At the same time it represents death as something infinitely more relentless. Compared to the tearful sadness of a vanitas scene, the diamond skull is glory itself.' Costing £14 million to produce, the work was placed on its inaugural display at the White Cube gallery in London in an exhibition Beyond belief with an asking price of £50 million. This would have been the highest price ever paid for a single work by a living artist.
For the Love of God is a 2007 award-winning short animation starring Steve Coogan and Ian McKellen, directed by Joe Tucker, produced at the National Film & Television School.
The film tells the story of Graham, a man living under the glare of his overbearing Mother in their Christian bookshop, who wants to have sex with God.
In 2007 it was the only British film in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It won a number of international awards including a Silver Hugo at Chicago International Film Festival and Best Animation at Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Rhode Island International Film Festival.
For the Love of God is a sculpture of a diamond-encrusted human skull by artist Damien Hirst.
For the Love of God may also refer to:
- For the Love of God (instrumental), the instrumental by Steve Vai
- For the Love of God (film), a 2007 short film
- For uses in religion, see Love of God
Usage examples of "for the love of god".
Nor will they gain freedom of spirit, unless with all their heart they submit themselves for the love of God.
And for the love of God, she thought, and felt a small seed of comfort stealing through her.