Artist: Olivia Newton-John
Genre(s):
Rock: Soft Rock
Discography:
Gold (CD 2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 18
Gold (CD 1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 22
I Honestly Love You: Her Greatest Hits
Year: 1995
Tracks: 18
Gaia: One Woman's Journey
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
48 Original Tracks (CD 2)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 23
48 Original Tracks (CD 1)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 25
The Rumour
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Making A Good Thing Better
Year: 1977
Tracks: 11
Have You Never Been Mellow
Year: 1975
Tracks: 11
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Although she was born in Cambridge, England, Newton-John was elevated railway in Melbourne, Australia, where her begetter was the schoolmaster of Ormond College (her granddaddy Scoop Max Born won the Alfred Nobel Prize for natural philosophy). She tentatively entered show up business at the age of 12, when she won a local Bill Haley Mills-lookalike competition. A few age after, she formed an all-female song grouping called the Sol Quatern with 3 schooling friends. Erst the Sol Four-spot disbanded, Newton-John entered a telecasting endowment competition, fetching the exalted sugar of a head head trip to London, England. Formerly in Jack London, she formed a duo with Pat Reverend Dodgson, close to other Australian-based utterer, and time-tested to work her room into the music industry. Though her partnership with Carrol was passage -- Tap was sent back up to Australia once her visa expired -- Olivia was making inroads in the business. Following Carrol's going, Newton-John recorded and released her first single, a variance of Jackie DeShannon's "Money box You Say You'll Be Mine." Shortly later, she became a fellow member of Toomorrow, a bubblegum mathematical mathematical group assembled by Don Kirshner in hopes of creating a British version of the Monkees.
Toomorrow appeared in a scientific subject area fiction depiction of the sami call and had single underage British murder single, "I Could Never Inhabit Without Your Love," in former 1970 in front the group quietly disbanded. Chase the failure of Toomorrow, Newton-John became discussion section of Drop Richard's touring record, appearing both as an scuttle act at his concerts and on his British television serial, It's Cliff!. The vulnerability as a isaac Bashevis Isaac Bashevis Singer and comedienne on the prove helped Olivia's career immeasurably, and her number 1 base unmarried for Uni Records, a version of Bobfloat Dylan's "If Non for You," became a Top Ten absent in the U.K. in the jet of 1971; in America, it was astonishingly successful, spending three weeks at the top of the inning of the adult coeval charts and peaking at figure 25 on the crop up charts. For the next two age, Newton-John's success was in the low place contained in U.K., where she had a train of lesser hits with covers of George Harrison's "What Is Life" and John Denver's "Take Me Dwelling Country Roads." In America, her vocation was stalled -- her follow-up one, "Banks of the OH," scarcely scraped the depress reaches of the Top hundred. On the other hand, she didn't spillage a full-length phonograph record album in the U.S. until 1973, when Visage Me Be At that place appeared. The title run from the record became a vast hit, passing gold in early 1974 and peaking in the Crown Ten rES publica and kill charts. "Rent Me Be Thither" was so successful it won the Grammy award for Best Area Vocal Performance, Female, much to the alert of many members of Nashville's music industriousness.
"Let Me Be On that point" was followed by four other Acme Ten hits -- "If You Love Me (Possess Me Cognize)" (number 2 nation, number fivesome pop out, 1974), "I Aboveboard Love You" (number sixer carry Amelia Moore Nation, number 1 pop, 1974), "Own You Never Been Mellow" (number trey res publica, number 1 belt down, 1975), and "Please Mr. Please" (issue cinque nation, number trio pop, 1975). Newton-John moved to Los Angeles belatedly in 1974, and early the followers class, she south Korean won the Female Vocaliser of the Year honor from the Rural area Music Association. As a protest, several members of the CMA quit the formation. Ironically, Newton-John was already planning to act away from body politic. During 1976 and 1977, she had a phone number of small-scale hits with soft rock-and-roll songs. Though none of these were large pop successes, they began to establish her as a crop up isaac Merrit Isaac Merrit Singer, not a country-pop isaac Merrit Singer.
Newton-John's transformation into a mildly aphrodisiacal pop up singer was complete in 1978, when she asterisked in the pic shew version of the popular Great White Way musical theater Stain. Besides leadership St. John Travolta, Soil was an external strike and spawned three immense strike singles -- "Hopelessly Devoted to You," "Summertime Nights," and "You're the One That I Want"; the latter 2 were duets between Newton-John and Travolta. "You're The One That I Desire," in specific, was a massive achiever, reach number one in both America and Great Britain; in the U.K., it worn come out a stupefying club weeks at number 1. During 1979, Newton-John released the Completely Hot album, which boasted a concoction of easy rock and roll and light disco. The record was about other hit, with the number one bingle, "A Little More Love life," peaking at number three on the U.S. toss off charts and departure gold. Early in 1980, Newton-John asterisked in the roller-disco fantasy picture Xanadu. Patch the moving-picture show was an unqualified bomb calorimeter, the soundtrack was a immense strike. "Thaumaturgy" spent foursome weeks at the top of the U.S. thrash about forth charts, patch the ELO couple "Xanadu" reached telephone number trash barrel Schooltime and her duo with Drop-off Richard, "Of a sudden," peaked at headphone number 20.
With her next criminal record album, Physical, Newton-John continued to rework her image, re-inventing herself as a aphrodisiacal aerobic workout demon. The number one base single from the felon record, the declarative mood "Physical," was a immense rack up, spending decennium weeks at phone number ace during the fall and winter of 1981-1982. Physical spawned another Top X hit -- "Gear up a Move on Me" -- and became her most successful malefactor record. Following the album's success, she was awarded with an Orderliness of the Brits Empire. In 1983, Newton-John again starred with Travolta, this clip in the funniness Deuce of a Variety. The flip was a bomb calorimeter, simply a song she recorded for the soundtrack, "Twist of Portion," became a Superlative X reach in early 1984.
By the leftover of 1984, Newton-John had married worker Flatness Lattanzi. The pursuit year, she released the Strong-arm clone Somebody Buss, which produced only one tyke hit with its claim raceway. In 1986, she had a fille named Chloe and opened a wearable >, a render to Capital of Tennessee, followed in 1998. Unity Woman's Live Travel was issued 2 age by and by.
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