Newton-John's country success sparked a debate among purists who believed a foreigner singing country-flavoured pop music did not belong in country music.

The former two songs were written and composed by Newton-John's long-time music producer, John Farrar, specifically for the film.

Newton-John's transformation in Grease from goody-goody " Sandy 1 " to spandex-clad " Sandy 2 " emboldened Newton-John to do the same with her music career.

Newton-John's cancer diagnosis also affected the type of music she recorded.

The single, slightly edgier than she had been known for in the past ( such as her songs from Grease and her country-pop ballad " I Honestly Love You "), proved to be immensely popular both in America and in the United Kingdom, despite the fact that the song was censored and even banned by some radio stations ; due to its sexual and / or violent content, especially the line: " Let me hear your body talk ", in spite of Newton-John's status as the reigning queen of soft-rock music at the time, " Physical " peaked at only number twenty-nine on the AC chart ( its follow-up, the slightly softer-edged " Make a Move on Me ," found more acceptance at AC radio and went to number six AC as well as number five pop.

In the United States, Newton-John's career floundered after If Not For You.

Newton-John's pop career cooled with the release of her next album, Clearly Love.

Later that year, Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits ( No. 13 Pop, No. 7 Country ) became her first platinum album as she prepared to launch a new phase in her career.

Newton-John's career soared after starring in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Grease, in 1978.

) " Magic " was Newton-John's biggest Pop hit to that point ( four weeks at No. 1 ) and still ranks as the biggest AC hit of her career ( five weeks at No. 1 ).

It also marked a controversial moment in Newton-John's career when Kipner / Shaddick's suggestive lyrics caused the song to be banned in Utah and South Africa.

Later in her career, she appeared on television in Steven Bochco's Cop Rock for ABC, and was at one point part of the musical support for Saturday Night Live, performing comical jingles ; she also provided background vocals for Olivia Newton-John's performance of " Let's Get Physical.

His father, John Farrar, was a member of The Shadows and also carved a successful songwriting career, penning many of Olivia Newton-John's big hits.

The film accommodated Newton-John's Australian accent by recasting her character from the play's original American Sandy Dumbrowski to Sandy Olsson, an Australian who vacations and then moves with her family to the United States.

Newton-John's advocacy for health issues was presaged by her prior involvement with many humanitarian causes.

( Chuda was featured along with Newton-John and daughter Chloe on the cover of Newton-John's Warm and Tender album.

The couple did not announce their marriage until a 4 July barbecue at Newton-John's Malibu, California home, where guests were surprised with the news.

He remained for two more similarly sardonic segments in which he first presented footage of a Chinese zoo baby panda from as the home video of his newly adopted pet, before expressing his new found love for aerobics and pulling a crew member onstage, making her do jumping jacks along with him to Olivia Newton-John's " Physical ".

Steve Kipner is a multi-platinum-selling songwriter and record producer with hits spanning over a 40 year history, including chart-topping songs such as Olivia Newton-John's " Physical ", Chicago's Grammy-nominated " Hard Habit to Break ", " Genie in a Bottle " by Christina Aguilera, for which he won an Ivor Novello Award for International Hit of the Year, Natasha Bedingfield's " These Words ", " The Hardest Thing " by 98 Degrees, " He Loves U Not " by Dream, " Stole " by Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland, The Script's " Breakeven " and " The Man Who Can't Be Moved ", and most recently, American Idol Season 8 Winner Kris Allen's first single debut " Live Like We're Dying ," and " Fight for This Love " by Great Britain's Cheryl Cole.

This was Newton-John's third live album after the 1981 Japanese release, Love Performance, and her 2000 Australian release, One Woman's Live Journey.

Her mother's family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime ( Newton-John's maternal grandfather was Jewish, and her maternal grandmother was of paternal Jewish ancestry ).

In 1954, when she was six, Newton-John's family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, where her father worked as a professor of German and as Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne.

Newton-John's performance earned her a People's Choice award for Favorite Motion Picture Actress.

However, the channel did air Olivia Newton-John's 1981 video for the hit song " Physical ", which lavished camera time on male models working out in string bikinis who spurn her advances, ultimately pairing off to walk to the men's locker rooms holding hands, though the network ended the clip before the overt homosexual " reveal " ending in some airings.

At the climax of the film, Glover does his rendition, in full drag, of Newton-John's " Please Don't Keep Me Waiting " from her 1979 album Totally Hot.

Chloe and her school choir performed backing vocals on Olivia Newton-John's track " The Way Of Love ", which featured on the 1994 album Gaia.

Australian actress Tiffany Lamb used an American accent in her role as Lisa Whitman, and her opening storyline revolved around her childhood sweetheart Cooper Hart ( played by Olivia Newton-John's husband Matt Lattanzi ).

The next single, " I Honestly Love You ", became Newton-John's signature song.

* 2004: Olivia Newton-John's version appears on the album Women of Song

She performed backing vocals on the self-titled solo album by Gene Simmons as well as background vocals on Olivia Newton-John's 1985 single " Soul Kiss ".

The song is also sometimes considered a Christmas carol, and as such has been covered by numerous artists on Christmas albums, most recently including Olivia Newton-John and Michael McDonald who performed the song as a duet on Newton-John's 2007 album Christmas Wish.

Newton-John's singles continued to easily top the AC chart, where she ultimately amassed ten No. 1 singles including a record seven consecutively:

The Renewed CD yielded Newton-John's first appearances on the Billboard Christian Albums ( No. 36 ), Christian & Gospel Albums ( No. 54 ) and New Age Albums ( No. 2 ) charts.

Newton-John's father was an MI. 5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during World War II.

Newton-John's outlook changed when Pat Carroll also moved to England.

By mid-1977, Newton-John's AC and country success also began to wane.

At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

* 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

He was, however, destined for the law and an official career in the Austrian civil service, and he occupied various important posts under the ministry of justice, music being an avocation.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.

Korner also wrote about blues for the music papers, and continued to maintain his own career as a blues artist, especially in Europe.

Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

In his early career he and his bands contributed to the Turkish rock movement by combining traditional Turkish music with rock influences, which is still one of the main trends of Turkish popular music.

In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006 Bo Diddley commented about the racism that existed in the music industry establishment during the early part of his career that saw him deprived of his royalties from the most successful part of his career.

At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition: Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker, had a brief and unsuccessful career under the stage name Lily Harley, while Charles Sr., a butcher's son, worked as a popular singer.

He began his professional career in this way, as the group toured English music halls from 1899 to 1902.

This opportunity was not wasted, as Haydn, beginning quite early on his career, sought to press forward the technique of building ideas in music.

She later had a brief solo music career in the early 2000s after the dissolution of Hole, releasing America's Sweetheart ( 2004 ), and went through several rehab sentences and run-ins with the law until achieving sobriety.

In 1989, Love abandoned her career as an actress to pursue music.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

Charles has been involved in the music industry through much of his career.

McClary left in 1982 ( shortly after Richie left ) to pursue a solo career and to develop a gospel music company.

The album strongly revitalized Parton's somewhat stagnant music career, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 country hits including Phil Spector's " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", which went to number one.

Although it looked like Parton's career had been revived, it was actually just a brief revival before contemporary country music came in the early 1990s and moved all veteran artists out of the charts.

Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

Gerald Casale began a career as a director of music videos and commercials.

Initially he trained for a career in music and became so proficient on the tuba that he won a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy.

Later that year, Brooks began his professional music career, singing and playing guitar in Oklahoma clubs and bars, particularly the Tumbleweed in Stillwater.