Amazing Grace

Event information

In 1972, Aretha Franklin performed two concerts over the course of two days at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. These concerts were recorded, and the music was subsequently released as a double-disk album, Amazing Grace. A film-maker, Syndney Pollack, was also present to document the concerts. The album would go on to become Franklin’s biggest selling album and is still to this day the highest selling gospel album of all time. The planned documentary, however, fell at the first hurdle: a simple error during filming made it effectively impossible for the producers to sync the audio with the visuals, and the footage was left to gather dust. Now, almost 50 years later, the sound editing issues have finally been resolved, and Pollack’s concert documentary has been released into the wild for the very first time. Capturing a truly unique performer at the peak of her career, Amazing Grace lets the music do the talking, and has already been hailed as ‘one of history’s greatest ever concert documentaries’. We’re thrilled to be able to screen it here, in the fitting setting of United Reformed Church. There’ll be a big screen, historically accurate pews and a sound system to do the music justice.

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Running Time: 86 mins

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