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Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...Olivia Newton-John

http://www.onlyolivia.com/onj.html

Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England on September 26th 1948; her family moved to Australia when she was 5. Her mother was German, daughter of the physicist Max Born, her father was Welsh, a professor of German at Cambridge and Melbourne. Despite the academic background, early on Olivia showed an interest in singing, forming a band called the Sol Four with some schoolfriends, and later on singing at her brother in law's coffee bar in Australia. She also starred in a movie "Funny Things Happen Down Under" which was forgettable apart from some early promise shown in Olivia's delightful rendition of "Christmas Down Under".

A talent contest hosted by the Australian Johnny O'Keefe offered Olivia the prize of a trip to England, and she took this up in 1965. Her first introduction to making records was a one-off single deal with Decca Records. The single, Till You Say You'll Be Mine/For Ever, is extremely rare though these two songs were available (Oct 1994) on the British compilation CD Pop Inside the 60's.

England did not make Olivia entirely happy - she missed Australia and her then boyfriend, Ian Turpie. In one interview she reports how she attempted to book her return flight without telling her mother, who had accompanied her to the UK. Fortunately for Olivia's fans and her future career her mother was not having her daughter waste this opportunity to broaden her horizons and Olivia's plans were thwarted.

Things improved when Pat Carroll, a fellow Australian, arrived in the UK. Dreaming of stardom the two girls played pubs and clubs as the vocal duo imaginatively called "Pat and Olivia". New to the British music scene their initial hirings were not always a success - such as the duo's performance at Paul Raymond's Revue bar. They were somewhat taken aback by the scant attire of some of the other performers. Needless to say the duo who were dressed in high-necked frilly dresses were not asked back to what they later on discovered was a strip joint...

In 1968 Bruce Welch of the Shadows fell for Olivia and they became engaged, something which was not entirely without problems as he was married at the time...

Pat's visa ran out in December 1969 and she returned home. For Olivia, movie stardom beckoned as she was invited to join the band Toomorrow, which was to be Britain's answer to the Monkees. This manufactured group issued an eponymous album in 1970 to go with the film of the same name, but the public were not impressed and the movie closed quickly, leaving Olivia to concentrate on her solo music career.
Olivia was invited to be the resident star for Cliff Richard's highly successful TV show in 1972, and she was a regular live performer in London.

***Rest of Olivia's very long Bio can be read here: http://www.onlyolivia.com/onj.html

Discography

Albums

1971 If Not For You
1973 Let Me Be There
1974 If You Love Me Let Me Know

1970 Toomorrow (OST)
1971 Olivia Newton-John(UK)/If Not For You (Aus)
1972 Olivia
1973 Music Makes My Day (UK)/Let Me Be There (Aus)
1974 Long Live Love
1975 Have You Never Been Mellow
1975 Clearly Love
1976 Come On Over
1976 Don’t Stop Believin’
1977 Making a Good Thing Better
1978 Greatest Hits
1978 Totally Hot
1978 Grease (OST)
1980 Xanadu (OST)
1981 Love Performance (live in Japan)
1981 Physical
1982 Greatest Hits 2
1983 Two Of A Kind (OST)
1985 Soul Kiss
1989 The Rumour
1990 Warm And Tender
1992 Back To Basics
1994 Gaia
1995 Heathcliff (Cliff Richard LP with 5 ONJ duets)
1998 Back With A Heart
1998 The Main Event (Concert album of Australian tour feat ONJ and 2 Australian singers. Reissued in 2001)
1999 One Woman's Live Journey (Live CD of performances from Olivia's 1999 tour. Released as audio DVD 2001)
2000 Christmas CD (Hallmark CD with Vince Gill)
2001 Sordid Lives (soundtrack with other artists)
2001 Christmas Collection

This is not a definitive discography of all albums, these are the original albums on which Olivia's work first appeared.

Singles

http://www.onlyolivia.com/music/singles/index.html

Videos

http://www.onlyolivia.com/visual/videos/musicv.html

Photos

http://www.onlyolivia.com/pix/index.html




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