Lyrics: Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind but now I see

Kate Beckinsale, Judy Collins (0:35), and LeAnn Rimes (1:26) perform the traditional song Amazing Grace. The actress Kate Beckinsale's scene singing the Christian hymn is taken from "The Last Days of Disco" motion picture soundtrack. The 1998 film was written and directed by Whit Stillman, and loosely based on his travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including Studio 54. Starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, the film follows a group of Ivy League and Hampshire College graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of New York City in the early 1980s.

Judy Collins probably recorded the best-known commercial version of Amazing Grace. The legendary folk singer performs Amazing Grace live acapella for All-American Girl in Concert in 2005.

LeAnn Rimes' studio version of Amazing Grace was recorded on her 1997 album "You Light Up My Life - Inspirational Songs".

John Newton wrote many hymns, including “Amazing Grace,” as an Anglican minister. “Amazing Grace” is part of the larger work Olney Hymns, published in 1779, that Newton wrote with the poet William Cowper. In many ways, “Amazing Grace” reflects Newton's own conversion to the Anglican faith. John Newton was a man that despicably sold other human beings in the slave trade. As he states in the hymn, he was a wretch, but God found him. He was saved by God's amazing grace, and it is that grace that sets God's people free when, at the prodding of the Holy Spirit, we freely accept it for ourselves.

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