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Sister Janet Mead, known for pioneering the use of contemporary rock and roll music in celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass, recorded a rock version of "The Lord's Prayer" in 1973, released on Festival Records. The track became an international smash hit, selling nearly three million copies worldwide and reaching the top ten in countries as diverse as Canada (#5), Brazil, Germany, Japan and Mead's native Australia (#3). In the United States, the song peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned a gold record for sales of over one million copies. Mead was nominated for a Grammy for Best Inspirational Performance (although she lost to Elvis Presley's How Great Thou Art) and also became the first Australian artist to sell one million U.S. copies of a record produced in Australia. She donated all of her royalties from the recording's massive international sales to charity, and her record label used their share of the proceeds to build a new state-of-the-art recording studio.
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