The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years. Accessibility links Skip to main content ...

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 ...

2023 is the 250th anniversary year of "Amazing Grace." It was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.

National Public Radio’s Samatha Balaban’s excellent story on the history of “Amazing Grace” reveals that singer Judy Collins did an impromptu rendition of the hymn at a 1969 meeting of war ...

Sung an estimated 10 million times each year, "Amazing Grace" marks its 250th anniversary this New Year's Day. It was born not of American Black spirituals as some believe, but across the Atlantic ...

John Newton's near-death experience prompted his hymn Amazing Grace. With Martin Bell, Judy Collins and Bob Zellner. From 2001. Show more A near-death experience in a storm at sea resulted in John ...

JUDY COLLINS: I'm Judy Collins, and I am a singer-songwriter, poet. BALABAN: Back in 1969, Collins was part of a group of people discussing the war in New York City. Her producer, Mark Abramson ...

The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.