A life-changing diagnosis awakens the songwriter within, before Newton-John closes out the decade by returning to Nashville, Rydell High School, and the concert stage.
Her mere presence in country music infuriated traditionalists, but Olivia Newton-John’s pop-flavored country foreshadowed the boundary blurring recordings of future genre-straddling stars.
Olivia Newton-John breaks big in Japan, produces a hit network television special, sues her record label, and sells platinum in America for the first time.