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Post by erik on Aug 8, 2022 14:34:25 GMT -8
If this doesn't hit you like a ton of bricks, I don't know what will. Olivia Newton-John, the Aussie who made good here in America on the pop and (rather more controversially) on the country charts as well, along with film roles in Grease and Xanadu, has passed away here in Southern California at the age of 73. The cause is believed to have been breast cancer, which she had been fighting on and off since the early 1990's: www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/08/olivia-newton-john-grease-singer-dies/In honor of 'Livvy, here is the title track of Xanadu (the song was a far bigger hit on the chart, needless to say, than the film itself was at the box office), which she did with the Electric Light Orchestra:
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Post by eaglemaster on Aug 9, 2022 6:18:23 GMT -8
Olivia, rest in peace now...
Your name brings back valuable and fascinating memories of the 80ies and will be remembered.
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Post by alikat on Aug 10, 2022 8:59:39 GMT -8
Erik, she actually had dual nationality (British-Australian), having been born in Cambridge, England and she also represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest back in 1974 with the song Long Live Love, finishing fourth behind Abba. Anyone remember them? This is one of my favourite songs of hers, a cover of Kiki Dee's Amoureuse, which was an album track: RIP Livvy Her death comes a mere 3 days after the death of another beautiful singer, Judith Durham, who was lead singer of the Australian group The Seekers who had a number of hits in the 1960s, although it seems that only 2 or 3 of their singles did well in the States.
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Post by erik on Aug 10, 2022 10:01:44 GMT -8
Quotes by alikat:
Yes, I forgot that she had that dual nationality.
Yes, not a particularly good week for the land Down Under.
But although it is true that Judith and her group only had three Top 40 hits here in America, they nevertheless did quite well by them: "I'll Never Find Another You" (#3, March 1965); "A World Of Our Own" (#19, July 1965); and their biggest, the title track of the 1966 film Georgy Girl, which narrowly missed the #1 slot here, peaking at #2 in February 1967.
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Post by alikat on Aug 11, 2022 1:07:56 GMT -8
But although it is true that Judith and her group only had three Top 40 hits here in America, they nevertheless did quite well by them: "I'll Never Find Another You" (#3, March 1965); "A World Of Our Own" (#19, July 1965); and their biggest, the title track of the 1966 film Georgy Girl, which narrowly missed the #1 slot here, peaking at #2 in February 1967. Looks like you missed out on perhaps their biggest hit, topping the charts in Oz and the UK: Poignantly, it was played at the very end of their farewell concert in 1968, which I remember being televised in the UK at the time.
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