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Keith Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia At age eleven in February 1965, with 40 original songs already under his belt, Green signed a 5-year contract with (with his father, Harvey Green (1924-1999), as business manager).

The first song released on disc was "The Way I Used to Be" in May 1965 (produced by ), which he had earlier composed and published before signing on with Decca. Upon publication of this song, Green became the youngest person ever to sign with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ).
Decca Records planned to make Green a , regularly getting the young pre-teenager featured in fanzines like Teen Scene and on popular television shows like and 's show.

magazine called Green "a prepubescent dreamboat". His dreams of stardom were shattered, however, when stole his short-lived spotlight and Green was quickly forgotten.
By his mid-teens, Green became heavily involved in drug use, eastern religion, astrology, and mysticism.

After experiencing a horrifying "bad trip", he abandoned drug use and also became bitter towards philosophy and theology in general. In the midst of his skepticism, as Green described it, God's love "broke through" his "calloused heart". He began on a new path "with Christ as his guru", but had many "spiritual struggles" and hardships along the way.

He married Melody Steiner on Christmas day 1973, and the two became involved in the in Southern California, where they were introduced to .
In 1975, the Greens began an outreach program in the suburbs of , California, by purchasing a home next door to theirs and renting an additional five in the same community to provide housing and care for prostitutes, drug addicts, and homeless people. This outreach ministry was dubbed Last Days Ministries (LDM) 2 years later.

Green was signed to label in 1976 and worked on the album Firewind (1976) with , , , and . His first solo project, , was released in 1977. followed in 1978.

In 1979, Green surprised many in the music industry by refusing to charge money for concerts or albums. He negotiated a release from his contract with Sparrow. The Greens then mortgaged their home to privately finance the album (with a guest appearance by ), which was then offered through mail-order and at concerts for a price determined by the purchaser.

As of May 1982, Green had shipped out more than 200,000 units of his album – 61,000 for free. Subsequent albums included (1981) and (1982).
In 1978, Last Days Ministries began publishing the Last Days Newsletter.

Originally printed on a few pages of loose paper, it grew in content to eventually become self-described as a "small, colorful magazine", renamed in mid-1985 as Last Days Magazine. The magazine featured articles by Keith and Melody as well as contemporary authors such as , , and , all of whom lived in the area, as well as reprinted works written by earlier Christian workers such as , , and and his wife . Due to popularity of the magazine, most of the articles were reprinted as tracts.

At the peak of its popularity, the Last Days Magazine was sent out to over 300,000 people worldwide.
In 1979, the ministry relocated from the San Fernando Valley in California to a 40-acre plot of land in , a crossroads community about 9 miles west of , Texas. Within a few years, 100 more acres were added for a total of 140 acres.

In Texan parlance, a plot of land the size of large acreages is referred to as a "ranch", hence the name Last Days Ministries Ranch. In this article, the word "property" is used. Melody Green described in her biography of Keith that the ministry had a close association with .

Green died on , , when a small airplane leased by Last Days Ministries crashed after taking off from a private airport in Texas referred to in the crash report as Garden Valley Airport. Green had planned to give visiting friends an aerial view of the Last Days Ministries property. Two of Green's children, three year old Josiah, and two year old Bethany, were on board the plane, as was pilot Don Burmeister, and friends John and Dede Smalley and all six of their children.

All passengers were killed in the crash. Crash investigators determined that the aircraft was nearly 450 lbs. (202 kg) overweight with 12 passengers and only 7 seats.

Keith, Josiah, and Bethany Green are interred at Garden Valley Cemetery behind the Garden Valley Baptist Church, less than a half-mile from Last Days Ministries property. He was survived by his wife and two daughters, the youngest of whom was born after Green's death.
The Smalley family are interred in a cemetery in Midland, Texas.

Two full albums of original Green songs were released posthumously: (1983) and (1984), continuing Green's policy of charging whatever the recipient was willing to pay. Another release, (1983) contained mostly previously released material. A complete volume of his work, , was released in 1987 and 1988, including a few more previously unreleased songs.

The final unreleased Christian song known to have been recorded by Keith was "Born Again", which was finally released 17 years later in 1999 on the First Love compilation video and CD, which features a two-song tribute to Keith by other artists. Keith was working on other songs at the time of his death. Melody has not made them available to the public.

She has released excerpts of his writings as books: Cry In The Wilderness (Sparrow, 1993), If You Love the Lord (Harvest House, 2000), and Make My Life a Prayer (Harvest House, 2001).
In 1992, several artists joined together to re-record many of Green's best-known songs for a tribute album called No Compromise: Remembering the Music of Keith Green under the Sparrow Records label. Artists contributing to that record included , , , , , , , and .

In 2001, released a second, more modern, tribute record Start Right Here: Remembering the Life of Keith Green. That tribute was produced by and included performances by , and others.
In 2002, upon the twentieth anniversary of Keith's death, Sparrow Records released another tribute album.

Your Love Broke Through: The Worship Songs of Keith Green contains re-recordings by , , , , , , , Charlie Hall, , , , and . This album includes "There Is One" performed by , which was an unfinished work completed by and .
Green Hall building, originally part of LDM property, named after Keith Green when Teen Mania bought the property