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Title: Amazing Grace
Condition: New
Subtitle: John Newton, slavery and the world's most enduring song
ISBN-10: 0745951783
EAN: 9780745951782
ISBN: 9780745951782
Publisher: Lion Books
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 22/04/2005
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 130mm
Item Width: 19mm
Item Weight: 250g
Author: Steve Turner
Genre: Biography
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre
Release Year: 2005
Description: Top music writer Steve Turner traces the biography of 'Amazing Grace', the world's most recorded song. Versions of this hymn have been performed by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Johnny Cash, Rod Stewart and Destiny's Child. The book begins with the dramatic story of John Newton and his participation in the African slave trade through to his writing of 'Amazing Grace' and his campaigning against slavery. The second part of the book - picking up the thread in the years following Newton's death - tells the story of the song itself as it has spread and developed over the past 280 years and its recordings by artists from a wide variety of musical backgrounds. This includes the aftermath of September 11th when the hymn became an international anthem of hope and solidarity.

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