
The result of that project is “LIV ON,” a loving tribute to those facing a major loss and seeking the strength to move forward as they cope with their personal pain.

“The three of us got together in the course of a year and wrote a bunch of songs together. I immediately thought of Beth Chapman, who probably wrote the most classic song for grieving called ‘Sand and Water.’ It’s just an amazing song and expresses it all.”Ī post shared by Olivia Newton-John said she reached out to Chapman about the possibility of working together, along with Sky. “I was talking to Amy about the fact that there isn’t music for people who are going through a loss,” she added.” No one has really tackled that as a project. “And they were asking me, ‘Do you have any other music like that?’ “I wrote a song for her and sent it to her friends,” explained the 68-year-old British-Australian singer/songwriter. When the singer’s older sister Rona died after a battle with brain cancer in 2013, she initially didn’t have any intention to record an album about her grief - at least not yet. These days, Newton-John new music has taken on a more serious, personal tone. I mean, I was having a panic attack when it came out because I thought, ‘Oh, I’ve gone too far! We just need to do a video about exercise.’ And that made it even bigger! But I’m very thankful to have that song in my life.” “I never really thought of it as sexy,” Newton-John revealed to Fox News. The song remains at the top of Billboard’s 50 Sexiest Songs of All Time.

Olivia Newton-John didn’t know just how big a response her 1981 hit “Physical” would get.
