I had seen some teasers of this concert on PBS and notion it looked radiant tight, so I was hopeful it would be better than the pretty-good concert Olivia save out in itsy-bitsy release from 2002. MY how she has grown in confidence since then! She was really at ease with ALL of her musical styles here, and with the audience, and with her band.
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For those who have seen her live in this century (haha, but quite seriously), you know she has stuck with a particular musicians in her band line-up at guitar & backing vocals & a multi-instrumentalist. Well, they have all improved together over the years, and she splits her vocal duets with all of them plus a video with peter allen (RIP) that is quite dramatic instead of what you’d deem (cheesy) — it came off like a graceful surreal movie. Step relieve Babs Streisand, theres a kindly primitive female vocalist with wider musical range of selection and a purer heart! Olivia is unprejudiced in her finest beget!
Not only do the duets remind you what a skilled duets singer she is — she has an entirely recent ability to blend her protest with others, always giving them the position to excel while quietly creating the whole landscape on which the feeling of the song sits! But its certain she gets on with the band so well, and they ALL clearly LIKE each other and “Derive it” about Olivia, and support encourage her being the best she can be. You are not watching a concert of a group that is objective there to score their paycheck and join the next artist’s tour. They are ALL on board unbiased for Olivia, and over the last 8 years, their loyalty has turned up exact gold in their performances together. I dont say this because “thats nice” but because it makes for ample collaborative music. Add in the lush Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and you have a classic.
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You also net to feel the suited gratitude not only for a fellow Aussie music record, Peter Allen — who was married for 7 years to Liza Minnelli before coming out delighted in 1974, the year he wrote one of Olivia’s definitive songs “I Honestly Care For You” — Their “Tenderfield Saddler” duet here was a huge payback, and added objective another transcendent dimension to this wonderful concert.
But I guess the main thing to point out here is that Livvy is in a really obedient station, as her unusual recordings have proof. Though oddly, I am saying all of this without any representation on this DVD from 3 of my very accepted Newton-John albums in this concert (Totally Hot, Attend with a Heart, and Grace & Gratitude), the expose is so superior, you can understand the choices perfectly. She didnt need those 3 albums to serene trip out this masterpiece.
For someone with 30 (THIRTY!) top 40 hits in their career, it is easy to become a slave to your past success, merely a showcase for your hits. In fact, thats almost the rule among pop/rock performers. But Olivia has turned that around: Her hits are merely showcasing HER. She has emerged – at almost 60 years of age – as an agelessly remarkable singer, writer, interpreter & performer, who is unruffled entirely indicate, and not at all sheepishly digging up the past. This is really really impressive stuff.
So if you’re thinking “Maybe” about adding this to your dvd collection, then I can shapely distinguished promise you, the retort is YES … you should rep it.
The greatest test of a singer is how they instruct live, and hopefully with no pre-recorded tracks and amplified back-tracking. That said it seems that a number of singers who came of age in the 1970’s are the ones who continue to whisper the goods live.
Olivia is a exact life survivor, and here she is backed by not only the Sydney Symphony, but her acquire tight band and right live back-up vocalists. Sometimes artists have the hurry to delv into the world of veil songs, or stutter a lot of fresh material, here Olivia stands by the age tested showbiz saying, give the people want they want.
In a very polished, and classy plot, she delivers the hits from all phases are her long career. Have You Ever Been Mellow, and a medley of her Country hits, such as Let Me Be There, do justice to her early years, and although the film of Xanadu was not a hit, the soundtrack was, and she shows us why.
Physical, from the album of the same name, and her biggest seller todate, gets a revamp here, but the playfullnes of the song remains, as it does on Construct A Depart On Me.
Grease is well represented here (as it should be), and these songs never seem to grow passe, and I doubt they ever will. A star in his occupy factual, Warren Ham, fills in for John Travolta, and frankly sings better than Mr. Travolta ever could.
Olivia closes the reveal with the heavenly ballad, I Honesty Esteem You, a song written by fellow Australian, the slack, titanic, Peter Allen. Like a number of her peers, Ms. Newton-John could objective as easily sit home and look the royalty checks advance in, instead she continues to dazzle her fans and catch unusual ones. A class act indeed!
Ken
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