![]() ![]() Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta attend The Academy Presents 'Grease' 40th Anniversary screening. I was very frightened about doing a movie," Newton-John recalled during the Academy's Grease 40th anniversary screening in 2018. "I really wasn't sure I wanted to do the movie, because I'd made a movie before in England, and it didn't work. Producer Allan Carr offered Newton-John the role of Sandy in the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical after meeting her at a dinner party. That experience was so off-putting that it nearly prevented Newton-John from saying yes to the next movie offer that came her way: 1978's Grease. There, she began her career as a pop star, before eventually making her screen debut in the 1970 sci-fi musical comedy, Toomorrow. Newton-John is survived by her husband and daughter, Chloe Lattanzi.īorn on Septemin Cambridge, England, Newton-John moved with her family to Melbourne, Australia, when she was six years old. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer." Newton-John's husband, John Easterling, confirmed her passing on her social media channels, writing, "Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. I have tried to get the best image possible, the age and the ravages of time mean that in some cases so I have retouched a few blemishes, though not all.Olivia Newton-John, the singer and actress best known for playing Sandy in the musical classic Grease, died on Monday at her home in Southern California, surrounded by family and friends. As a fan these artefacts have been revered and kept in plastic covers and not exposed to the light, so they are in decent condition, but many from Olivia's heyday are between 40 and 50 years old. Since I am British most of my Olivia albums are the UK releases from EMI UK. Some from WH Smith in my hometown, most from the original flagship HMV London record store in 363 Oxford Street, not far from my student digs. I have been a fan of Olivia and her music long enough that most of my Olivia records were bought new or new as back catalogue rather than second-hand. The LPs are therefore the non plus ultra of Olivia's release artwork. The vinyl albums were issued when these albums were released for the first time, so there was some interest in the record company to make a decent fist of it to make more money, and as the 1970s went by, Olivia's proven superstar status presumably concentrated the mind a little bit. Mind you, sometimes not all the tracks made it onto the CD and the less said about their digital remastered series the better, so funky artwork isn't the only issue. In Australia, Festival seem to have assigned an intern to the CD artwork job, image quality is poor. However, they did a reasonably competent job of the cover artwork reprographics. MCA didn't allocate a huge budget to the sleeve notes and artwork, which tends to be sparse and the back of the CD box often had a generic tracklisting. ![]() So the sound quality of these MCA releases was probably the best, although the tonal balance can sound a bit thin to my ears. We should be grateful for this as fans because it was before digital audio processing was common, so the curse of the loudness wars had not yet struck. MCA released CDs of Olivia in the late 1980s/1990s. That Japanese boxset is a great job, subject to the limitations of the medium, but other record companies didn't reach that picture quality bar when reissuing Olivia's 1970s albums on CD. The Japanese boxset in mini-LP slipcase sleeves shows what you can do with CD artwork. Note that the images will be a little soft on the linked pages because they are reduced, that is so that Google doesn't gripe about huge images. You can get the album cover on the TV using the DLNA network photo feature or a USB stick. I have targeted the image size for the height of a 4K TV (2160x2160) or the width of a 4K TV for the double inner spreads (3840x1920). Select the album picture to go to the album page, and then right-click on the link to the UHD version to save. The last Olivia album I bought on vinyl was Back to Basics in 1992, so I have albums of most of her releases and all from her peak activity. In the case of Olivia's CD releases there are many secondary reasons why the CD covers of her early albums are sub-par. ![]() This is the primary reason why the pictures off albums will be clearer. A CD cover is typically 12cm square, nearly 6½ times less surface area than the LP cover. These were printed on 12" square surfaces, so resolution better than a CD cover in principle. This project is to get some decent images of Olivia's vinyl record sleeves. ![]()
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