Don't Stop Believin'

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Positive is good as long as it's combined with reality, and this book only seems to have the positive part without the reality. I knew because Mum and Dad took separate holidays, although they tried hard not to make an issue of it. Sometimes I would have to cover my small blond head with my schoolbooks as those huge, striking black-and-white birds swooped down on me. Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE, is an English-born, Australian-raised singer, actress, and philanthropist who was recently the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University. For more than five decades, Olivia Newton-John has been one of our most successful and adored entertainers.

Audible vanta una delle più vaste selezioni al mondo di audiolibri, podcast e serie originali e ti offre i primi 30 giorni gratuiti. As a little girl, I knew all of her songs by heart, and I had watched all of her movies over and over. I believe I got this gift from my father, Brinley “Brin” Newton-John, who was Welsh and had a beautiful bass-baritone singing voice. This marked the end of any hope of even weekly or monthly visits, as they were too expensive on his academic salary.After her own personal journeys with cancer, she has thrived and become an inspiration for millions around the world.

I didn’t know that at the time, though, so I thought I better cover myself and that film was what inspired me to get the book started, and I enjoyed it. She is grateful for the people in her life, the opportunities she has had as well as the experiences she has lived through. True, she recognizes that cancer is dreadful disease, but she’s also maintained the will that, in a way, echoes a line in her classic hit “Magic” — “nothing can stand in our way.When I was a little girl, Dad would sing out loudly in church, but I was embarrassed by it because I didn’t want to be noticed. And there are other interesting stories that this great lady chose to share that read and felt like the kind of conversations you’d have with a good friend. As for her husband's herb company, she went on and on towards the end of the book how his herbs really helped her out which is great, but again, does the reader really need the specifics and being told over and over again how helpful it was? When it comes down to it, 'Don't Stop Believin' is an adequate autobiography from Olivia Newton-John that will sell well and give her millions of fans something to be generally happy about. I bought the hard cover of this book and then found out that she was reading the audio book so I bought that too.

I had to have my stomach pumped, and the whole experience was so mortifying and memorable that no wonder drugs of any kind have never interested me again. There's almost nothing in the book about her daughter (Olivia fails to address the very public rumors about the daughter), her disappearing lover (only two positive pages that slam false media sightings), and her first husband (vowing not to say anything negative about her daughter's dad). I’m breathing and lucky, and you have to keep that in mind because you create your world by what you think, what you believe.John and I have matching tattoos on our left ankles—a spiral pattern we designed when we were in Australia on our fifth anniversary. Olivia discusses the highs (Grease fame, numerous concerts and awards, her daughter Chloe's birth) to the dark times (cancer battles, difficult relationships and minor injuries whilst on tour) with her mantra being to "never give up" nomatter how hard life may get at times. Despite the pain, I refused to cancel any of my shows because of a lifelong discipline instilled in me at the tender age of fifteen. I was the youngest of the three, born eight years after Rona, and apparently the “try to save the marriage” baby—but more on that in a moment.

Anyone who has been through a supermarket checkout over the last few decades can probably understand why Newton-John might be concerned. One of the most beautiful lessons I learned at this time was from my mum, who combined kindness with forgiveness. When I was quite little, I stood on a stool in front of the bathroom mirror with a thermometer in my mouth because I suddenly needed to take my own temperature for reasons unknown. I adored my father and think more about him now than ever before, especially when I hear classical music, which was always playing loudly in our house. In 1978, her costarring role with John Travolta in Grease catapulted Olivia into super-stardom and to date it remains the most successful movie musical of all time.In the forward Olivia states that this is her first book, it is in fact her second: the children's book The Pig Tale was her first. Since surviving breast cancer in 1992 she has been an advocate for health awareness, becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts.