"1981. Newton-John also filmed the video for ""The Promise (The Dolphin Song)"" and some takes of ""Olivia Physical"" there. The album's cover ranks among the most popular and iconic photos of Newton-John, and as one of Ritts' most popular works. The cover has been compared to that of Madonna's ""True Blue"", also shot by Ritts. ""Physical"" is among Newton-John's most diverse albums, and set her career in a totally different direction. The album was completely produced by Newton-John's longtime collaborator John Farrar, who did a then-modern music production, which later became a musical trend during the 1980s. The songs feature"
"Olivia Physical Olivia Physical is a 1982 video collection featuring the singer Olivia Newton-John and various of her songs, most from the album ""Physical"". A somewhat expanded version of the video was aired as an ABC prime-time television special, ""Let's Get Physical"", which was in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings. In 1983 the video received a Grammy Award as Video of the Year. Newton-John was one of the first artists to invest in music videos. The 1978 album ""Totally Hot"" was her first one to features videos accompanying all the singles from the album, but they were very"
"Physical (album) Physical is the ninth full-length studio album by the British-Australian-American singer Olivia Newton-John, released on 13 October 1981 by MCA Records. The album was produced and partly written by her long-time record producer John Farrar. Recorded and mixed at David J. Holman's studio in Hollywood, California, ""Physical"" became one of Newton-John's most controversial and sexual records, and her most successful studio album to date. Musically, the album features considerable use of synthesizers, and it explores lyrical themes such as love and relationships, sex, kinesthetics, and environmental protection. Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music"
"she commented in a ""Billboard"" article about the ""Olivia Physical"" production: ""I think this is the way albums will go in the future: visuals with the music. I got to be a different personality and play an other side of myself."" Olivia Physical Olivia Physical is a 1982 video collection featuring the singer Olivia Newton-John and various of her songs, most from the album ""Physical"". A somewhat expanded version of the video was aired as an ABC prime-time television special, ""Let's Get Physical"", which was in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings. In 1983 the video received a Grammy"
"her way through a concert taped at Weber State College in Utah. ""Xanadu"" and ""Heart Attack"" are fetching, but ""Physical"" is the aerobic showstopper"". Source: Physical Tour The Physical Tour was the fifth concert tour by Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, in support of her 12th studio album, ""Physical"" (1981). The tour consisted of 64 shows in North America only, the second largest by Newton-John, visiting arenas and stadiums. It's the first concert tour by Newton-John since 1978 and her last in 16 years, until The Main Event Tour. The show had advanced technical aspects at the time, and was divided"
"A Newton-John duet with Jane Lynch was displayed in the episode ""Bad Reputation"" of the television series ""Glee"". Adapted from the album's liner notes. !scope=""row""| Total sales: Physical (Olivia Newton-John song) ""Physical"" is a song by the British-born Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for her twelfth studio album ""Physical"". It was released in September 1981, by MCA Records as the lead single from the project. The song was written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick, who originally intended to offer it to British singer-songwriter Rod Stewart, while production was handled by John Farrar. The song had also been offered to Tina"
"gold and represented the country via the shape. The ochre colour of Lizzie’s body aimed to mirror the colour of the land. The frill neck lizard is a native Australian animal which inhabits northern parts of the country. The lizard was chosen because of its will to survive along with its tenacity, it carries the Paralympic message of power and pride to both Australians and international audiences. The strength, determination and attitude of Lizzie symbolise the character traits of all Paralympic Athletes. Lizzie has been given the voice of Olivia Newton-John, a well-known Australian singer, actor and entertainer. Olivia made"
"Physical Tour The Physical Tour was the fifth concert tour by Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, in support of her 12th studio album, ""Physical"" (1981). The tour consisted of 64 shows in North America only, the second largest by Newton-John, visiting arenas and stadiums. It's the first concert tour by Newton-John since 1978 and her last in 16 years, until The Main Event Tour. The show had advanced technical aspects at the time, and was divided into four segments, determined by Newton-John costume changes and a video interlude. The tour was a commercial success and received generally positive reviews, regarded as"
"nominations. The song ""Physical"" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female and the video ""Olivia Physical"" won a Grammy Award for Video of the Year at the 25th Grammy Awards. ""Olivia in Concert"", the video recording of the Physical Tour, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Video Album at the 26th Grammy Awards. Newton-John won her fourth American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist at the 10th American Music Awards, making her the biggest winner on that category (tied with Whitney Houston). In 1981, at the time of ""Physical"" release, Newton-John was"
"Physical (Olivia Newton-John song) ""Physical"" is a song by the British-born Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for her twelfth studio album ""Physical"". It was released in September 1981, by MCA Records as the lead single from the project. The song was written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick, who originally intended to offer it to British singer-songwriter Rod Stewart, while production was handled by John Farrar. The song had also been offered to Tina Turner by her manager at the time, but she turned it down, and the song went to Newton-John who shared manager Roger Davies with Turner at this"
"Olivia Newton-John Olivia Newton-John, (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other top ten ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles, and two number-one ""Billboard"" 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles (including two platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two platinum and four double platinum) have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. She starred in the musical film ""Grease"", and is"
"it. The song's original demo, sung by Gibb, was released on ""The Guilty Demos"", released through iTunes in 2006. ""Physical"" was the first Newton-John album to include environmentalism and animal rights themes. Tracks ""Silvery Rain"", written by The Shadows member Hank Marvin and released as single in 1971 by Cliff Richard, and ""The Promise (The Dolphin Song)"", a Newton-John-penned song, feature these themes. Newton-John also embraced ecological themes on later albums such as ""The Rumour"" and """". ""Physical""'s nature- and sensuality-themed photos were shot primarily in Honolulu, Hawaii by the famous American photographer Herb Ritts in the first half of"
"the characters and reflect their personalities. The visual representation on the cover art is also a reference as the anthropomorphic characters have similar traits from the named artists. The main characters are a cat called Gene Vincent, a badger called Nick Lowe and a fox called Jimmy Pursey. A few other bands and artists are named in the song ""Rock N Roll Animals In Space"" such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, The Soft Machine and Robert Wyatt. There are also controversial denunciations involving some of the artists such as ""Led Zeppelin stole the blues, Not"
"D34658 / D21034), complete with the original cover art. Not released in the United States, ""Olivia"" contains 14 tracks, including covers of Bread's ""Everything I Own"", George Harrison's ""What Is Life"" (US #34 Adult Contemporary, Billboard) and ""Behind That Locked Door"", and Merrilee Rush's ""Angel of the Morning"". Olivia (Olivia Newton-John album) Olivia is the second studio album by the Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released in 1972. Two of its songs were released as singles (""What Is Life"" and ""My Old Man's Got a Gun""). In its initial release, it was not issued in the United States, though it was"
"size), then ""The Book of Murdoc"" (he was captured by the band's record label Parlophone at sea and told to make another album), and finishing with ""The Book of 2-D"" (he was swallowed by a whale named Massive Dick on Plastic Beach, and washed up on the shores of Mexico, where to survive he had to eat the whale's blubber, but it turned out he was just at an empty part of Cabo San Lucas). On 8 October 2016, Noodle was given her own Instagram page and was announced to be the Global Ambassador of Jaguar Racing. On 19 January"
"that would be her last tour), until The Main Event Tour, in 1998. ""Physical"" received generally positive reviews from music critics, many stating that was the best album by Newton-John at the time. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic, in a retrospective review written decades after the album's release, gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars, writing that """"Physical"" was a damn good record, in many ways one of Olivia Newton-John's very best"". He further explained ""[The album] skillfully balances catchy yet mellow dance cuts with immaculately crafted adult contemporary pop and ballads"". Stephen Holden, in a review for ""Rolling"
"or edited by several radio stations and television channels (such as MTV) for its sexual references. The single was followed by ""Make a Move on Me"", another top worldwide hit. ""Landslide"", which failed to enter the majority of musical charts, had a music video featuring Newton-John's boyfriend (and later husband) Matt Lattanzi, to whom she had dedicated the album. A video compilation, ""Olivia Physical"", was produced, featuring music videos of all songs from the album. The material was a commercial and critical success, and earned Newton-John a Grammy Award for Video of the Year. The album was promoted with Newton-John's"
"artwork, Olivia also collaborated with Scottisch drummer Robin Thomson and graphic novelist Iain Sommerville. She designed the artwork (containing drawings by Sommerville) which shows characters from her songs, but also quotes movies, TV shows and themes of modern lifestyle and pop culture. The cover is a quote of Katsuhiro Otomo's ""Akira"", the booklet shows Olivia's head surrounded by drawings echoing Lisa Simpson, South Park, Franz Kafka, Pam Grier, an electronic dog. The album contains songs of which several had already been spread throughout the internet in their early demo-versions: ""Hologram"", ""Tennis Rackets"", ""No Memory"". Two other songs found on the"
"Gaia: One Woman's Journey Gaia: One Woman's Journey is an album released by Olivia Newton-John in 1994. For the first time, Newton-John wrote all the songs and co-produced the album. ""Gaia"" was Newton-John's first album since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. Many of the songs were written about her experience, such as ""Why Me"" and ""Not Gonna Give into It"", as well as her interest in conservation. ""Gaia"" was recorded in Australia during 1993 and 1994 and released by several independent labels internationally, except in Australia where Newton-John was still signed to Festival Records. The album was"
"Newton-John doing aerobic exercises and jumping rope through the performance) and ""I Honestly Love You"". The tour had generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Newton-John vocal performances and her ability to entertain the audience. Two concerts in Ogden, Utah (the state where ""Physical"" was banned by two local radio stations) were filmed for a television special (titled as ""Olivia: Live in Concert"") and a home video release, as ""Olivia in Concert"". The video was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. It was the last concert tour by Newton-John for sixteen years (she originally said"
"1982 North American Physical Tour, performances from which a home video entitled ""Olivia in Concert"" was produced. The ""Physical"" era marked the height of Newton-John's solo career, gaining her wide acclaim as one of the most successful female artists of the early 1980s. In 1978, Newton-John starred as the female lead, ""Sandy"", in the musical film ""Grease"", which was a worldwide blockbuster and had a best-selling soundtrack. Before the film, Newton-John was known for country pop and adult contemporary songs. Following the huge success of ""Grease"", and inspired by her character's transformation from goody-goody ""Sandy 1"" to the sexy, spandex-clad"
"Janet Planet, in the town of Fairfax. The original LP was released in a gatefold sleeve. The cover photograph showed Planet, riding bareback on a horse, with Morrison walking alongside. The gatefold and back cover photographs showed Morrison perched upon the fence of the horse's paddock, with his wife standing to his right and a black-and-white kitten on the fence to his left. This rural setting depicting a bygone era was in vogue on album covers at the time as rock artists moved from cities to rural communities. The Band, CSNY and Grateful Dead had similar themes on album covers"
"career. However, after the failure of the film ""Two of a Kind"" (1983), which she starred again with John Travolta, her film career went on hiatus, and she would return to touring 16 years after the Physical Tour. The first attempts for the setlist included the songs ""Come on Over"", ""Don't Stop Believin'"", ""Pony Ride"" and the music video for ""Stranger's Touch"" (from ""Olivia Physical"") as a video interlude. The jazz musician Tom Scott was the tour musical director and also played saxophone in the band. He also served as the opening act, performing songs from his album ""Desire"" (1982)."
"Grace and Gratitude Tour The Grace and Gratitude Tour is the fourteenth concert tour by English-born Australian pop singer Olivia Newton-John. The tour, which became the United States and Canada, gave support to her twenty-second studio album, ""Grace and Gratitude"". The album, which led a tour of the same name, is considered a spiritual work, involving messages of peace and health. Newton-John is the hype with simple clothes and little makeup. The songs from the new album replace the usual hits of the singer and focus on the beginning and end of the show. Andy Timmons - ""Guitar & Vocals""<br>"
"presented the Record of the Year category, together with Lionel Richie. ""Physical"" was released as the album lead single on 28 September 1981 by MCA Records. The single is the most successful solo hit of Olivia's career, and became her fifth number one single on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 (and last, to date). ""Physical"" stayed for 10 weeks on the top of Hot 100, the largest permanence at the time, becoming the most successful song on the ""Billboard"" in the 1980s. The song and his music video (which was recorded in a gym, with several men working out) were very"
"2018. Newton married English writer, director, and producer Ol Parker in 1998. They have three children: daughters Ripley (b. 2000) and Nico (b. 2004), and son Booker Jombe (b. 2014). Her daughters were named after the character Ellen Ripley in the ""Alien"" films and the singer Nico. Newton had home births with all three of her children. She is vegan and was named PETA's ""Sexiest Vegan of 2014"" in the UK. In 2006 Newton contributed a foreword to ""We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children"", a book of children's writing published in aid of the NSPCC. In it, she"
"allowing for a clear comparison in the piano's sound with and without the cabinet. The album's cover is a photo of Amos holding a large rifle, sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of an old wooden building. One of her legs is out of her pants and flung over the side of the chair. A snake coils around the chair and a large rooster hangs from the roof of the porch. The image is a nod to her song ""Me and a Gun,"" which appears on the album ""Little Earthquakes"" and recounts a rape she sustained. ""Well, it's"
"four-volume ""Car Tunes"" set carried a re-vamped cover, featuring two cartoon elephants named Ollie & Ella, who were the ""symbol"" of the Let's Dance! album, driving a red car with music notes flying left and right. Inside each cassette, the fold-outs contained tour dates for their ""Let's Dance!"" album and a promotional card for the album as well. It also featured a plug for kids to donate to UNICEF. In 1984, under Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Records, a cassette titled ""Car Tunes"" was released featuring Sharon, Lois & Bram, The Travellers, Eric Nagler and Mike and Michelle Jackson. It"
"One"". In 2009, Montag stated that the record would be titled ""Superficial"", commenting that ""that's the world [she lives] in and how people think [she is] but it's really just the surface"". Its intended cover was shot by Liz Ciganovich, who commented that it was inspired by Montag's earlier music video for her song ""Overdosin'"" and ""Physical"" by Olivia Newton-John. It depicted Montag dressed in a strapless, polka-dotted leotard in front of a wall of cassettes, which she described as a ""shout out to the '80s"" and ""makes you remember when you just had to run out to the record"
"releases are noted for their striking graphic design, used consistently and thematically across the entire discography. Each CD is packaged in a cardboard Digipak case. The front features high-resolution nature photography, depicting exotic animals in their natural habitats. The back is plain white, with the track listing in plain black text. Animals used on classic Em:t covers include ""Ceratophrys ornata"", ""Plecotus auritus"", ""Ctenophore"" and ""Ramphastos sulfuratus"". Images of frogs were used exclusively for compilation releases, whereas individual artists were given freedom to pick an image from the Oxford Scientific catalogue. The ""new"" em:t releases did not have animal-themed covers, but"
"cover featuring Charlie Watts and a donkey, are depicted in the documentary film ""Gimme Shelter"", and shows Jagger and Watts on a section of the M6 motorway adjacent to Bescot Rail Depot, Birmingham UK posing with a donkey. This is adjacent to where the RAC building now stands. The actual cover photo however was taken in early February 1970 in London, and does not originate from the 1969 session. The photo by David Bailey, featuring Watts with guitars and bass drums hanging from the neck of a donkey, was inspired by a line in Bob Dylan's song, ""Visions of Johanna"":"
"requires the choir to inhale helium to sing the ""stratospherically high notes"" of the climax, accompanied by aerial footage of the horse animated to show it rearing up from the ground. A recording, produced by Mike Oldfield, was released by Oldfield Music in 1983. The Uffington Horse is illustrated on the cover of ""English Settlement"" (1982), the fifth studio album by the Swindon band XTC, and appears (among other symbols copied from Barbara G. Walker's ""The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects"") on the back cover of Nirvana's final album, ""In Utero"" (1993). Uffington White Horse The Uffington White"
"Australia. In April 2012, it was reported that Johns had initiated the dissolution of the relationship in February 2012. As of early 2013, Johns was dating fashion designer Estelita Huijer, with whom he was photographed in Crown Street in Sydney. Johns commenced a relationship with Michelle Leslie in October 2016. Johns is also known for his animal rights support, having revealed that he is a vegan in 1998, although it was stated that he is a pescetarian in 2009. The ""Neon Ballroom"" song ""Spawn Again"" features Johns' views on animal liberation, but he stated in a subsequent interview: ""I'm not"