![]() ![]() “ She’s wonderful and instant and we’re lifelong friends. ![]() We’ve all lived that same way, we all wanted to make it internationally. We came back on the Fairsky and I think she flew back to England. We sailed to Australia on the Fairsea, the sister ship. “We’ve lived the same life! She sailed to Australia on the Fairstar when she was five-years old. Gibb confesses to having “a really special spot in my heart,” for Newton-John, “but then every guy I meet has the same spot!” With their paths first crossing in Melbourne in 1966, there’s a lot of history between them. Here’s what I wrote at the time in a piece that became an extended feature for the New Zealand Herald: A major international success that topped the charts in the UK and Australia, as well as reaching the top 15 everywhere from the States to Germany to New Zealand, Greenfields saw Barry teaming up with stars like Alison Krauss, Keith Urban, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell and yes, his dear life-long friend, Olivia Newton-John. It was January of 2021 and I was interviewing Barry for his Greenfields album – a collection of 12 Bee Gees songs reimagined as modern-day country and Americana duets. British born, Australian-raised, first strides to fame in the UK, superstardom in the USA, careers of various astounding triumphs that are perennially overshadowed by one particular cultural earthquake it’s not hard to see the parallels between Australia’s sweetheart and the second biggest pop group in history.īut ultimately more important, especially now as we reflect on Olivia Newton-John’s death at the age of 73 after a 30-year battle against breast cancer, is the fact that she and the sole surviving Bee Gee, Barry Gibb, share reputations as two of the nicest, most genuine people in the biz. ![]() Barry Gibb wasn’t exaggerating when he told me that he and Olivia Newton John had “lived the same life”. ![]()
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