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Another well-known cover was recorded by Olivia Newton-John in 1971, using Harrison's arrangement of the song. Newton-John's version became her first hit single, peaking at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as the title track to her debut album, If Not for You.
British-Australian pop singer Olivia Newton-John included "What Is Life", along with a version of Harrison's All Things Must Pass track "Behind That Locked Door", on her 1972 album Olivia. [119] The song was arranged and produced by Bruce Welch of the Shadows and John Farrar, [119] who was Newton-John's regular producer and collaborator during ...
It was the first of two Newton-John albums to top the Billboard 200 pop albums chart, [2] the second being Have You Never Been Mellow the following year. Two hit singles were culled from the LP in the US: the title song (No. 5) and "I Honestly Love You", which became Newton-John's first number-one single in the US after listener requests for the song prompted MCA to release it as a single ...
Even most of Newton-John’s fans might have missed the fact that she covered the Divinyls’ saucy alt-pop standard. That band’s hit ’90s original was a song of true double-entendres ...
Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British and Australian singer and actress. [3] With over 100 million records sold, [4] Newton-John was one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all-time.
CP21-6074). The album was simply called Olivia Newton-John, which was the full title of the original vinyl / cassette release in England in 1971. (It was initially released as Olivia Newton-John in England, and If Not for You in foreign territories, including the US and Australia.) This EMI 1990 CD release did not feature any of the original ...
Newton-John puts effective emotion into every song and when played off against clear instrumentals, strikes an effective tone on ballad and uptempo numbers alike." [ 5 ] Allmusic called it a "consistent and entertaining project," noting "what this record becomes is a textbook on the separation between what is good and what is great.
It was never issued in the United States, where just four of its songs would instead eventually be released on Let Me Be There and If You Love Me, Let Me Know. Festival Records in Australia re-released Olivia in combination with Newton-John's first solo album, If Not For You, as a two-record set in 1973 on the Interfusion label, simply titled ...