For a while now, I have been hearing about this hallowed word, ‘Sacrifice’ everywhere in the media, in the context of godmen, movie stars, politicians, soldiers… (Remember the question that everyone was asking a few months back, “Where were you in so and so year?” “What did you do in so and so year?”) Recently, in America, it was Mr Trump explaining what he has sacrificed. Then I remember this song from the 1973 movie version of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, and this sort of validates my feeling about it. In this climatic number, a dead Judas Iscariot descends from heaven in a white jumpsuit and asks the resurrected Jesus:

“Everytime I look at you I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
You'd have managed better if you had it planned
Now why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?
If you'd come today you could have reached a whole nation
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication

Don't you get me wrong....
Only want to know.....

Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
Who are you? What have you sacrificed?
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
Who are you? What have you sacrificed?
Jesus Christ Superstar
Do you think you're what they say you are?
Jesus Christ Superstar
Do you think you're what they say you are?"

On the subject of sacrifice, how could I forget Elton John’s chart-topping number? The song from my agonizing teen-age years. Yes, I was young once, and it was terrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLFJARmnBvg