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[Ash Armstrong]

They were neighbours, if that helps.

You're not Olivia's nephew?

[bondegezou]

Wh-wh-wh why?

They were neighbours, if that helps.

[Ash Armstrong]

Lynsey de Paul threw a rock through my aunt's window.

Wh-wh-wh why?

[bondegezou]

Of all the things from 50 years ago to remember, I recall arguing with a schoolmate about whether she or Lyndsey de Paul were the prettier....

Lynsey de Paul threw a rock through my aunt's window.

[luna65]

Continuing to go off topic - lol - Linda Ronstadts “long long time” is one of the greatest female songs with feeling of all time!!! Stole my moms Ronstadt double hits lp long ago, and she wails on that tune!!!

She is the greatest popular song stylist of the late 20th Century.

[luvyesmusic]

Continuing to go off topic - lol

It's primarily/is my fault on this particular thread. I had been thinking should I here, and a couple of other threads. I was thinking this place was too sterile/too clean. I want to make this place a bit more like the original YESfans.com.

[luvyesmusic]

Oh fellas. Xanadu? Really? The wimpiest leading man who is a graphic designer. Old Gene Kelly on roller skates? Livvie is still good. Watch Grease for a great musical with great characters.

Now Livvie had for a longtime built a cancer recovery centre in Melbourne that does a ton of good. She has survived her own scares. She's an outstanding human being.

My favourite memory of her performing Live was at the Australian Open one year. Such presence. She owned centre court. Dressed in white she twirled and sang........Magic!!!

https://youtu.be/caZ9xChgY14

I have rightly loved this woman, and her voice ( the voice first ), for fifty years now.

Thanks for sharing the video.
I first saw Olivia ( we were driving through Portugal on vacation, age seven , when we lived in Austria. We passed a small club where she was to perform the next night. My father would not have listened to my demands to stop and spend a couple of nights to see the show with a Volkswagen bus full of family, so I didn't bother asking. Hell, he wouldn't listen to me as an adult when I asked him while visiting, about doing Shumacher's go carts in South Africa, just because my brother wasn't interested. Bastard-both of them. ;-) ) on television Febuary 1975, on the Smothers Brothers Comedy half hour. I've been looking to buy it find a copy of that performance for decades. She's dressed in a white dress, looking like a goddess, singing Have You Never Been Mellow, swinging on a swing with flowers. Even kicked off on of her shoes to the lyrics " kick off your shoes". Needless to say, I was in love right there and then.

Yup, she was in a t.v. show with her best friend in Australia, and won a contest to go to England. She had a year to claim the prize, and waited. Someone decided the country genre for her, for the beginning of her career. She had no to little supporters except for Dolly Parton, when this foreign woman won Country Female Artist of the year, or something like that. Sometime after, the rest of the world fell in love with her persona and voice. Many television specials and some controversy not only with Physical, but the 1979 album before that. I lived it, and I loved her look, and expanded songs and vocal range. I was lucky enough to finally see her perform, taking my wife and daughter. Of course, I had to send her a card and a dozen roses, backstage before the show.

She still gets me everytime I hear her sing.
Btw, she was worried about being too old to be a high-schooler in Grease, until she took the screen test. Marie Osmond, reportably was the first choice, but being a devout Mormon, the "becoming the bad girl" part did not interest her.

[Gtkgasman]

Yes, on her third album. ONJ recorded a few John Denver songs in the early days. Like Linda Ronstadt she was a song stylist across a few different genres and has recorded albums in various styles. She didn't start recording her own songs until the late '70s.

Continuing to go off topic - lol - Linda Ronstadts “long long time” is one of the greatest female songs with feeling of all time!!! Stole my moms Ronstadt double hits lp long ago, and she wails on that tune!!!

[rabin105]

Of all the things from 50 years ago to remember, I recall arguing with a schoolmate about whether she or Lyndsey de Paul were the prettier....

well it's so easy to fall in love

[luna65]

Didn't she do Country Roads Take Me Home as well?

Yes, on her third album. ONJ recorded a few John Denver songs in the early days. Like Linda Ronstadt she was a song stylist across a few different genres and has recorded albums in various styles. She didn't start recording her own songs until the late '70s.

[Ash Armstrong]

She was married to a guy who faked his own death. Off a boat near the Mexican coast. Never been seen again. Now married to a fella who runs a medicinal cannabis company. She down with the herb.

She's had quite the life.

Of all the things from 50 years ago to remember, I recall arguing with a schoolmate about whether she or Lyndsey de Paul were the prettier....

[Gilly Goodness]

She was married to a guy who faked his own death. Off a boat near the Mexican coast. Never been seen again. Now married to a fella who runs a medicinal cannabis company. She down with the herb.

She's had quite the life.

[Ash Armstrong]

I must confess to knowing nothing of this film.
Aside from her role in the Grease film, all I know of Olivia Neutron-Bomb is Let's Get Physical, and I fear I'm not up to doing that these days. Didn't she do Country Roads Take Me Home as well?
I may have dreamed it, but wasn't she romantically linked with Stiff Pilchard once, though as I write that, it's absurdity is breaking over me like a tsunami...?

[Gilly Goodness]

Oh fellas. Xanadu? Really? The wimpiest leading man who is a graphic designer. Old Gene Kelly on roller skates? Livvie is still good. Watch Grease for a great musical with great characters.

Now Livvie had for a longtime built a cancer recovery centre in Melbourne that does a ton of good. She has survived her own scares. She's an outstanding human being.

My favourite memory of her performing Live was at the Australian Open one year. Such presence. She owned centre court. Dressed in white she twirled and sang........Magic!!!

https://youtu.be/caZ9xChgY14

[luvyesmusic]

It's a great movie. An underappreciated work. :-)

You know, Henry, Xanadu appears to be so much like Olivia's first movie ( which I have never seen ) , the theme of it, that she did, when she finally came returned to England, as a young woman, after winning the contest in Australia, that began the bump start of her career.

Olivia is the second crush I had, starting at age seven, and the longest crush I've ever had. I fell in love with her voice the very first time I heard it on the radio, and she's been my favorite vocalist ever since. My musical fantasy, still, and they could be in their eighties, and I wouldn't care, would be to have Olivia sing in one ear, and Ane and Frida from ABBA sing in the other.

I love the music in Xanadu, as much as I love Olivia's beauty, and the concept. I sing out loud everytime I watch it. Grease makes me smile a tad more though.
Olivia has always been my favorite singer followed by Agnetha Faltskog of ABBA. My second longest crush by the way. Give me beautiful, photogenic women who can sing with no auto-tune, with such emotion, and are comfortable around and know how to work the camera, they have me instantly.

Not to hyjack this thread, but ABBA has been my number one "group" for ever. E.L.O. would be next, followed by YES. ABBA primarily pop. E.L.O enough pop melodies with Symphonic sounds and instruments, and YES, the early 70s might be prog/proggish most, the are like a symphonic band to me with time and key changes, long songs, that take me on a journey, and stir my emotions, each and every time.

Again, Henry, thanks for all you do when it comes to "YES'" and "the boys" history, and your knowledge. We/I certainly appreciate it. :-)