Among songs which topped both the Easy Listening ( renamed Adult Contemporary in 1979 ) and pop charts in the 1970s were " Song Sung Blue " by Neil Diamond, " Annie's Song " by John Denver, " I Honestly Love You " and " Have You Never Been Mellow " by Olivia Newton-John, " Love Will Keep Us Together " by Captain & Tennille and " You Light Up My Life " by Debby Boone.

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

Written and composed by Jeff Barry and Peter Allen, the ballad became her first No. 1 Pop ( two weeks ), second No. 1 AC ( three weeks ) and third Top 10 Country ( No. 6 ) hit and earned Newton-John two more Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance-Female.

) Newton-John also continued to reach the Country Top 10 where she tallied seven Top 10 singles through 1976's " Come on Over " ( No. 23 Pop, No. 5 Country, No. 1 AC ) and six consecutive ( of a career nine total ) Top 10 albums through 1976's Don't Stop Believin ' ( No. 30 Pop, No. 7 Country ).

The soundtrack album spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton-John: the platinum " You're The One That I Want " ( No. 1 Pop, No. 23 AC ) with John Travolta, the gold " Hopelessly Devoted to You " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 20 Country, No. 7 AC ) and the gold " Summer Nights " ( No. 5 Pop, No. 21 AC ) with John Travolta and the film's cast.

Dressed on the cover all in leather, the album's singles " A Little More Love " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 94 Country, No. 4 AC ), " Deeper than the Night " ( No. 11 Pop, No. 87 Country, No. 4 AC ), and the title track ( No. 52 Pop ) all demonstrated a more aggressive and uptempo sound for Newton-John.

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.

Newton-John began 1980 by releasing " I Can't Help It " ( No. 12 Pop, No. 8 AC ), a duet with Andy Gibb from his After Dark album, and by starring in her third television special, Hollywood Nights.

Newton-John charted with " Magic " ( No. 1 Pop, No. 1 AC ), " Suddenly " with Cliff Richard ( No. 20 Pop, No. 4 AC ) and the title song with the Electric Light Orchestra ( No. 8 Pop, No. 2 AC ).

Newton-John re-teamed with Travolta in 1983 for the critically and commercially unsuccessful Two of a Kind, redeemed by its platinum soundtrack ( No. 26 Pop ) featuring " Twist of Fate " ( No. 5 Pop ), " Livin ' in Desperate Times " ( No. 31 Pop ), and a new duet with Travolta, " Take a Chance " ( No. 3 AC ).

Both the single ( No. 62 Pop, No. 33 AC ) and the album ( No. 67 Pop ) fizzled as the nearly 40-year-old Newton-John seemed " old " when compared with the teen queens Debbie Gibson and Tiffany ruling the Pop charts at that time.

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.

* " Magic " Olivia Newton-John ( No. 1 ( 4 weeks ) Pop, No. 1 ( 5 weeks ) AC, certified gold )

) In October, Newton-John helped launch the www. liv. com website and teamed with fitness franchise Curves to distribute one million Liv-Aid breast self-examination aids for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Newton-John reprised her role for Sordid Lives: The Series which aired one season on the LOGO television network.

This year saw a change to the Contest in that, since 1964, one specific artist had performed all the songs ( e. g. Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Lulu, etc.

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.

Since then, Torry has also performed as a session singer ( singing on a number of 1970s UK TV adverts ) and as a live backing vocalist with Kevin Ayers, Olivia Newton-John, Shriekback, The Alan Parsons Project ( for which she also sang lead vocal on one track on their 1979 Eve album ), Procol Harum mainman Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, Cerrone, Culture Club ( on their hit " The War Song "), Meat Loaf and Johnny Mercer.

( 1970 – 1972 ), Clunk, Click ( 1974 )-when in a break with the format, Olivia Newton-John performed three songs a week for two weeks rather than one a week for six weeks-and It's Lulu ( 1975 ).

On 20 May 2008 one of Belinda's songs, " Beautiful Thing ", was included in Olivia Newton-John's new CD " A Celebration in Song: Olivia Newton-John and Friends ".

Among one of the most unappreciated artists who did this was Olivia Newton-John in 1974, who emerged from Australia in the mid-70s, hoping to make it big in the United States.

: In addition, several other songs that reach the top on one of the charts does very well on the other, including " Have You Never Been Mellow " and " Please Mr. Please " by Olivia Newton-John ; " I'm Not Lisa " by Jessi Colter ; Fender's " Wasted Days and Wasted Nights "; and " When Will I Be Loved " by Linda Ronstadt.

In addition to her Grammy for " Let Me Be There ", Newton-John was also named the Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year in 1974, defeating more established nominees Loretta Lynn, Canadian Anne Murray, Dolly Parton and Tanya Tucker.

Newton-John, an Australian pop singer, was named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association, sparking a debate that continues to this day — what is country music?

Others, like John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, The Eagles, Faron Young, Willie Nelson, Dottie West, Alabama, Eddie Rabbitt, Ronnie Milsap and Anne Murray began successful in Country but made the crossover to pop music.

Olivia Newton-John received the Country Music Association's Top Female Vocalist award in the USA in 1974.

In 1974, Olivia Newton-John received the Country Music Association's Top Female Vocalist award in the USA, despite protest from American country purists.

When her single " Let Me Be There " became a big pop-country crossover hit in 1974, it became quite controversial, especially after Newton-John won a Grammy award for " Best Female Country Vocal Performance " for the song, and also won the CMA's most coveted award for females, " Female Vocalist of the Year " ( beating out established Nashville artists Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tanya Tucker, as well as Canadian transplant Anne Murray ).

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.

The song was chosen for Newton-John by the British public out of six possible entries.

All six Eurovision contest song candidates were recorded by Newton-John and included on her Long Live Love album, her first for the EMI Records label.

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.

* " Xanadu " Olivia Newton-John / Electric Light Orchestra ( No. 8 Pop, No. 2 AC, No. 1 ( 2 weeks ( UK )))

) " Physical " even earned Newton-John her only placement ever on the R & B Singles ( No. 28 ) and Albums ( No. 32 ) chart.

Corrales holds the distinction of being the first female artist to top the Australian pop music charts long before Helen Reddy, Olivia Newton-John and Kylie Minogue.

It started with pop music singers, like Glen Campbell, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John and Anne Murray, began having hits on the country charts.

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.

The album spawned hit singles from both Newton-John (" Magic ," No. 1 in the United States, and " Suddenly " with Cliff Richard ) and ELO (" I'm Alive ", which went gold, " All Over the World " and " Don't Walk Away ").

At fourteen Newton-John formed a short-lived all-girl group, Sol Four, with three classmates often performing in a coffee shop owned by her brother-in-law.

Newton-John was homesick in England for her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie, with whom she had co-starred in the Australian telefilm, Funny Things Happen Down Under.

In 1974, Newton-John represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Long Live Love ".

Burned by her Toomorrow experience and concerned that she was too old to play a high school senior ( she turned 29 during the latter 1977 filming ), Newton-John insisted on a screen test with the film's co-star, John Travolta.

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.

After a nearly three-year hiatus following the birth of Chloe, Newton-John resumed her recording career with the 1988 album, The Rumour.

( Ironically, this album was praised by critics as more mature with Newton-John addressing topics such as AIDS, the environment and single-parent households.

Shortly after the album's release, Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer forcing her to cancel all publicity for the album including the tour.

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

Newton-John collaborated with producer David Foster to record " Hope Is Always Here " for the November 2009 television special, Kaleidoscope.

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.