Newton-John released her first solo album, If Not For You ( No. 158 Pop ), in 1971.

Newton-John released the B-side, " Dancin ' ' Round and ' Round ," of the " Totally Hot " single to Country radio peaking at No. 29 ( as well as No. 82 Pop and No. 25 AC ), becoming her last charted solo Country airplay single to date.

In 1981, Newton-John released her most successful studio album, the double platinum Physical.

The special was subsequently released to video earning Newton-John another Grammy nomination.

Newton-John released another video package, the Grammy-nominated Twist of Fate, featuring videos of her four songs on the Two of a Kind soundtrack and the two new singles from Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol.

The following year, Newton-John released a healing CD, Grace and Gratitude.

Newton-John released a companion CD, A Celebration In Song, the following month in Australia and later worldwide featuring new and previously recorded duets by " Olivia Newton-John & Friends.

Newton-John was featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docu-drama, 1 a Minute, released in October 2010.

During the same month, Bluewater Productions released a comic book featuring Newton-John to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

In 2002, Newton-John released ( 2 ), a duets album featuring mostly Australian artists ( Tina Arena, Darren Hayes, Jimmy Little, Johnny O ' Keefe, Billy Thorpe, Keith Urban ) as well as a heartfelt " duet " with the deceased Peter Allen.

Newton-John also released several Christmas albums.

In 2010, Newton-John starred in the film Score: A Hockey Musical, released in Canada.

The performance was released as a digital single, returning Newton-John to the Billboard Hot 100 ( No. 89 ) for the first time since her 1998 re-release of " I Honestly Love You ".

After the breakup of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others.

The Xanadu soundtrack and all its singles by both ELO and Newton-John were released on MCA Records in the USA and Canada, and on Jet Records elsewhere in the world.

In 1998, Newton-John released a new version of " I Honestly Love You " from her album Back with a Heart, which featured Babyface on background vocals, and reached number sixty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100, her first U. S. charted single in six years.

" Physical " is a song by pop singer Olivia Newton-John, released in September 1981.

The controversial music video that was released to promote the song featured Newton-John in a gym with well-built men in the last half.

The revamped bossa nova version of the song was released on the 2002 Olivia duet album ( 2 ) as a bonus track ; this version replaces the original in latest tours of Newton-John.

Long Live Love is an album recorded by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1974 on EMI Records.

* The Main Event ( video ), a video, released in 1999, of a tour The Main Event Tour by singers Olivia Newton-John, John Farnham and Anthony Warlow

Newton-John was primed for another comeback in 1992 when she compiled her third hits collection, Back to Basics – The Essential Collection 1971 – 1992, and planned her first tour since her Physical trek ten years earlier.

Stigwood followed this with another hugely successful film adaptation of one of his stage productions, the rock ' n ' roll musicalGrease ( 1978 ), which co-starred Travolta and Australian singer Olivia Newton-John.

The group forms as a result of an outcry over the 1974 Country Music Association awards program, where pop diva Olivia Newton-John won Female Vocalist of the Year, and Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass was awarded another Instrumental Group of the Year.

" I Honestly Love You ", written by Barry with Peter Allen, became a 1974 No. 1 for Olivia Newton-John ; and, in 1984, Jeffrey Osborne and Joyce Kennedy hit the Top 40 with another Barry composition, " The Last Time I Made Love ", written with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.

In the same year, Wheatley reached another milestone in his career, with a hugely successful trio tour, " The Main Event " that starred Farnham, Olivia Newton-John and Anthony Warlow.

Newton-John cancelled a 1978 concert tour of Japan to protest the slaughter of dolphins caught in tuna fishing nets.

On 14 March 2009, Gibb teamed with Olivia Newton-John to present the one-hour finale performance at a star-studded 12-hour live concert at Sydney's Sydney Cricket Ground, part of Sound Relief, a fundraiser to aid victims of the February 2009 Victorian Bushfires that devastated large tracts of heavily wooded and populated south-eastern Australia, where the Gibb family once lived.

The Sydney concert included, Coldplay featuring John Farnham, Eskimo Joe, Hoodoo Gurus, Icehouse, Jet, Josh Pyke, The Presets, Wolfmother, You Am I, Architecture in Helsinki, Marcia Hines, Taylor Swift, and Barry Gibb with Olivia Newton-John.

* The Main Event ( concert tour ), an Australian concert tour, and later album, featuring John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John and Anthony Warlow

During this period, many performers, including Rose Maddox, Kitty Wells, Olivia Newton-John, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt, covered her songs, and her siblings Randy and Stella both received recording contracts of their own.

Other songs written by McLean for the album included “ Dreidel ” ( number 21 on the Billboard chart ) and “ If We Try ” ( number 58 ), which was subsequently recorded by Olivia Newton-John.

In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

Kelly continued to make frequent TV appearances and, in 1980, appeared in an acting and dancing role opposite Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu ( 1980 ), an expensive theatrical flop which has since attained a cult following.

She was also attracted to the music of more mainstream artists like Olivia Newton-John and The Police, perhaps explaining the contrast in her later music between sweet, melodic " pop " songs and more hard rock oriented material.

Hoffs was actually naked when she recorded the song, after being convinced by Sigerson that Olivia Newton-John got her amazing performances by recording everything while naked.

* September 26 – Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress

Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE ( born 26 September 1948 ) is an English born Australian singer and actress.

Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to a Welsh father, Brinley (" Bryn ") Newton-John, and a Berlin-born mother, Irene Helene ( Born ), the eldest child of the Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist Max Born.

Stella Parton, Dolly's sister, recorded " Ode to Olivia " and Newton-John recorded her 1976 album, Don't Stop Believin ', in Nashville.

Olivia Newton-John in 1978Encouraged by expatriate Australian singer Helen Reddy, Newton-John left England and moved to the United States.

She headlined her first U. S. television special, A Special Olivia Newton-John, in November 1976.

Newton-John previewed some of the film's soundtrack during her second American network television special, Olivia, featuring guests ABBA and Andy Gibb.

Olivia Newton-John at the opening of a Koala Blue store in 1988.

In 2008, Newton-John raised funds to help build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

Olivia Newton-John and Stephen Elliott in January 2012 at the premier of A Few Best Men in Sydney, Australia

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

Australian country artists including Olivia Newton-John and Keith Urban have achieved considerable success in the USA.