“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 ...

Now, it's on Broadway. — -- It’s a song known to many -- and a story known to few. "Amazing Grace" has been sung by pop artists, performed by public figures -- even presidents. Now ...

Ramy Inocencio is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Network in 2019 as CBS News' Asia correspondent, based in Beijing and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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?