“Amazing grace,” intoned the eulogist, and repeated it. He began to sing: “how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me,” and the congregation, a bit startled, joined in, as the ...

And she'd start singing "Amazing Grace" and people would come out of their homes. JOHN LARSON: In 1970, Collins recorded a simple version, and it became a worldwide hit.

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Ne ...

Amazing Grace. By James Walvin. University of California Press; 216 pages; $19.95 and £16.99 A short but fascinating book by James Walvin, a professor at the University of York and an expert on ...

With its simple melody and message of salvation, "Amazing Grace" is a global music sensation. As music lingo would describe it, the song is No. 1 with a bullet. Will Elvis' "Hound Dog" last 200 years?

What a gift this movie is. The concert documentary “Amazing Grace” puts us in a room where something magical happened: Over two days at Los Angeles’ New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in ...

Aretha Franklin didn't want you to see Amazing Grace, the "new" documentary of her legendary performance at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, in January 1972. But that's ...

The story behind the best-selling Gospel album, Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace," recorded 40 years ago at New Temple Missionary Baptist church in South L.A. Aretha Franklin was already an ...