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unusual facts about The Church's One Foundation


The Church's One Foundation

The Church's One Foundation is a Christian hymn written in the 1860s by Samuel John Stone.


A Cricket in Times Square

David Fricke of Rolling Stone called the record "particularly impressive" was comparing A Cricket in Times Square to Ride, Sonic Youth, and The Church.

Canonization of the Romanovs

The family was killed on 17 July 1918 by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia; the site of their execution is now beneath the altar of the The Church on Blood.

Chris Abrahams

Abrahams has also been a session musician on albums for artists such as The Church, The Whitlams, Midnight Oil, Wendy Matthews, Skunkhour and Silverchair.

Donnette Thayer

Following the release of Two Steps, Thayer teamed up with Steve Kilbey of Australian psychedelic rock band The Church, whose Top Ten hit, "Under The Milky Way," was #12 for the year of 1988.

Gone South

Scheduled for the weekend before Christmas, plans were looking great, with popular bands Powderfinger, John Butler Trio, The Living End, 1200 Techniques, and The Butterfly Effect on the line-up, as well as classic Australian band The Church.

Harkness Tower

The next level of sculpture consists of allegorical figures depicting Medicine, Business, Law, the Church, Courage and Effort, War and Peace, Generosity and Order, Justice and Truth, Life and Progress, and Death and Freedom.

Hugh Quarshie

He headed the cast of Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) as Father Gus, and played Aaron the Moor in the BBC Television Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Mae Moore

There she collaborated with Steve Kilbey, the lead singer from the popular Australian band The Church, and the resulting recordings featured a more atmospheric sound than her first album.

Something Quite Peculiar

It features the single "Tonight's the Night" and a cover of The Church's "Under the Milky Way".

Strawpeople

Many albums also featured covers of songs such as The Cars' Drive, John Hiatt’s Have a Little Faith in Me and The Church’s Under the Milky Way.

Violet Town

Violet Town has connections with Australian rock music - during the 1980s a song by The Church was named for the town, and more recently the town has been known for being the home of Jesse and Ella Hooper, members of rock band Killing Heidi.


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