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Let’s Get Physical: How Olivia Newton-John’s Banned, Rejected Song Became the Biggest Hit of the 1980s
Let’s Get Physical: How Olivia Newton-John’s Banned, Rejected Song Became the Biggest Hit of the 1980s In the autumn of 1981, the unlikeliest sex symbol in pop music released the most sexually explicit number-one single of the decade — and then tried to stop it. She was Olivia Newton-John: the wholesome Australian-British songbird of “I…
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Olivia Newton-John: The Heart Behind the Hits — Chloe, Love, and the Long Way Home
For all the rhinestones and headbands, the Grammys and the gold records, the people who loved Olivia Newton-John will tell you her greatest production wasn’t a song or a film. It was a family — imperfect, hard-won, and held together by a woman who had learned, through heartbreak after heartbreak, what actually mattered. She was…
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How Olivia Newton-John Turned “I Honestly Love You” Into Her First American No. 1
In early 1974, Olivia Newton-John was a star everywhere except where it mattered most. She’d had hits in Britain and Australia. She’d won a Grammy for “Let Me Be There.” But the American pop chart — the big one, the Billboard Hot 100 — had never carried her name at the very top. She was…
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The Untold Story of Olivia Newton-John: The Spy’s Daughter Who Conquered Pop, Country, and the Silver Screen
She was Sandy’s sweet smile and “Physical”‘s headband, the girl next door who became the biggest female pop star on the planet. But Olivia Newton-John’s life reads like a spy novel that wandered into a musical. Her grandfather was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who fled the Nazis. Her father was a British intelligence officer who…