My first celebrity crush. She was 73.
My first celebrity crush. She was 73.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
RIP.
She seemed like a good person.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Sorry to read it. I still enjoy her "A Little More Love"/"Magic" era when I come across those songs.
Woah. This is unexpected. RIP.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
R.I.P. This year is really taking its toll.
https://cliveymacdougall.bandcamp.com/
Danger demos, jazz and warts stored here in vast amounts
https://www.soundclick.com/artist/de...bandID=1241900
LOVE this song:
That was where my crush on her began, and I was only a kid seeing it on TV. I loved that bizarre, almost cult movie with its hybrid of styles and Olivia just dazzling and impossibly beautiful. My sister had the 45 rpm single of Magic and we played it over and over. I didn't get to see her on the big screen until Two Of A Kind (not a great film, but I rented it again when it came out anyway!) and then it was my turn to buy a single (Twist Of Fate).
R.I.P. to Olivia Newton-John and another little piece of my childhood.
Interviewer of reprobate ne'er-do-well musicians of the long-haired rock n' roll persuasion at: www.velvetthunder.co.uk and former scribe at Classic Rock Society. Only vaguely aware of anything other than music.
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Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Interviewer of reprobate ne'er-do-well musicians of the long-haired rock n' roll persuasion at: www.velvetthunder.co.uk and former scribe at Classic Rock Society. Only vaguely aware of anything other than music.
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You've never heard of Xanadu?! Dude, what alternate universe were you living in 1980?!
I always dug this movie. They used the exterior of the Pan Pacific Auditorium, a closed concert hall that they had hoped would be revived due to it's connection to this movie. Of course, the film flopped, the Pan Pacific stayed closed (and tragically, burned down in the late 80's), and that was that.
Michael Beck, who played Olivia's lvoe interest in the picture had a funny line about the film. About a year earlier, he had been in a movie you also probably never heard of called Warriors, where he played a member of a street gang traversing hostile territory in NYC, in a bid to make it home to Coney Island. So this how he described the situation: "Warriors opened a lot of doors for me, all of which were slammed shut by Xanadu".
Oh, and this movie also has what I consider to be one of the ultimate pre-CGI special effects sequences (and by extension, therefore, one of the best EFX sequences PERIOD!):
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
A beautiful voice singing songs I did not care for.
My sympathies to her family and friends.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
She was in one of the only 2-3 musicals that I ever paid/pay attention to: Grease [the movie]
And sang the closing song.
I hope she died peacefully. 72 is very young.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
RIP.
My wife always had an uncanny ability to find Grease on TV and I imagine that this week it will be everywhere.
RIP Sandee
Last edited by Digital_Man; 08-08-2022 at 10:32 PM.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
I used to always look for her album covers at the record store.
Linda Ronstadt, too.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Heard about this earlier today and it caught me by surprise. Rest in peace to a beautiful, talented and good-hearted lady.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
RIP to a good person who did a lot in the last couple decades to raise funds and awareness for cancer.
I could not MEH hard enough in regards to her music but hey, she brought a lot of joy to people who like insipid pop. I'd rather hit my balls with a ball peen hammer than watch Grease. In regards to the album covers, she was fine but Ronstadt was in a class by herself.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
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