When Web editor Laura Conaway proposed doing a mashup of the five stages of grief with the "Best Song in the World Today" I immediately called dibs on stage five: acceptance.

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And we'll continue our weeklong series, the five stages of grief, mashed-up with our BPP feature, Best Song In The World Today.

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Steve Turner's book Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song tells the story of composer John Newton's conversion from slave trader to abolitionist, and traces the evolution of the song from its composition in 1772 as a hymn with no set tune to the version familiar today.

NPR: 'Amazing Grace'

Today, our staff's song pick of the week comes from NPR's Tony Cox.

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It was a song of the divine average and a voice of the future, surprisingly modern even today.

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And yet at this time he recorded perhaps his greatest song, 1980's "He Stopped Loving Her Today, " the tale of a man who continued pining for his lost love many years after she left him.

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We're well reminded of the Obama people who today express doubts about a special prosecutor but sang a very different song when Bush administration folks were the target.

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Take Apple 's iPod, which lets today's teenagers download any song for 99 cents--one-quarter of the price (in constant dollars) that kids in 1975 paid for a 45 rpm vinyl record.

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