For years, fans have clamored for expanded reissues from Olivia Newton-John's rich discography. Now, those wishes are about to be answered as a catalogue campaign begins for the pop queen with a 40th anniversary 2CD/DVD set of 1981's multi-platinum Physical. It arrives on October 22 from...
I’m really sad about the passing of Olivia Newton-John, from cancer at the age of 73. I was a teenager when I first learned about the British-Australian singer back in 1971 when she released her lovely cover of Bob Dylan’s “If Not For You”. The song became her first charting s...
Physical is one of Olivia's finest albums - she is exuberantly happy on this and why not - she had met her husband to be, she was in love - and sang joyfully. The single 'Physical' was a smash hit, standing at no 1 in the US singles charts for ten weeks - joint second in the...
I interviewed Olivia Newton-John for my my "House Call" column in the paper's Mansion section (go here). Until I began my pre-interview research, I had no idea Olivia's grandfather was Max Born, the physicist and mathematician who received a Nobel Prize for developing quantum mechanics. O...
Bonus Tracks – Singles Landslide (Edited Version) * 3.50 Heart Attack 3.10 Tied Up (Edited Version) * 4.08 Twist Of Fate 3.39 (Livin’ In) Desperate Times (Re-Mixed Version) * 3.57 Take A Chance – Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta 4.10 ...