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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation, We're Jones.

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Speaker 2: Something with the radio show. You come to work in

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Speaker 2: the morning, you've got a show planned, and then just

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Speaker 2: before you go on, you find out that Livia and

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Speaker 2: Newton John has passed away, and it's you know, we

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Speaker 2: spoke to her many times on this show. And I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't say that we were great mates with Olivia, but

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Speaker 2: we loved her and we spoke to her, which we

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Speaker 2: were lucky to do. But she's left such a big

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Speaker 2: hole in her own lives.

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Speaker 1: Oh. Absolutely, she was an extraordinary woman. Do you know.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and five she established the Oliving Newton

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Speaker 1: John Center in Melbourne. This was a wellness center in

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Speaker 1: the heart of a public hospital. Now many public hospitals

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Speaker 1: would have something like that, but in two thousand and five,

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Speaker 1: she said, I had to fight for that. People didn't

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Speaker 1: know what to think of it or make of it,

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Speaker 1: but it was a great benefit for the patients. And

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Speaker 1: she's always been into holistic medicine. She was first introduced

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Speaker 1: to plant based therapies by her husband, who's a medicinal

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Speaker 1: plant specialist. And she puts her money where her heart

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Speaker 1: is and she is established in a Livin Johnton Foundation

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Speaker 1: Cancer Research Institute. Of course, she set up Gaia, the

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Speaker 1: incredible retreat in by Nearbyron Bay. So she's always been

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Speaker 1: an advocate for health. She's inspirational in so many ways.

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Speaker 1: And of course musically music amazing.

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Speaker 2: It all started with this in the seventies seventy one,

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Speaker 2: and then in America they discovered her when she had

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Speaker 2: this and then this hit was massive.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember that. But you can see how

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Speaker 1: she evolved as an artist, got into the tight pants

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Speaker 1: right about.

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Speaker 2: Here, and then remember hopelessly devoted and then branched onto Xanadu.

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Speaker 2: I remember in Xana Do they had this other song,

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Speaker 2: I love this one. Yeah, and then that more it

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Speaker 2: into physical and we caught up with Olivia. As I

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Speaker 2: said a lot of times on the show, remember that

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Speaker 2: time we caught up with her and we were talking

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Speaker 2: about her time in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: You're going from strength to strength in Vegas. I know

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Speaker 1: that's recently extended your run. It must be hard yaker

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Speaker 1: every night. How are you keeping yourself healthy and your

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Speaker 1: vocal cords rested? You know?

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Speaker 2: Actually, I'm enjoying it very much. Being in Vegas. I'm

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Speaker 2: in one.

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Speaker 1: Place, I'm not moving around. We have a really nice

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Speaker 1: place to live.

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Speaker 2: Vegas is a fun place and about twenty minutes out

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Speaker 2: of Vegas is beautiful environmental habitat. We take our dog

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Speaker 2: for walks and your way out of the city, so

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Speaker 2: we really enjoying our time here. All my friends come

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Speaker 2: to see me, so it's very cool. And you're at

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Speaker 2: the Pink Flamingo. I'm at the Flamingo. Yeah, how good

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Speaker 2: with that? And your friends? Come on? Are they all free?

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Speaker 1: Laders?

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Speaker 2: Do you make them pay?

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Speaker 1: I would no, I give them tickets of cod It's funny.

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Speaker 2: We stayed with it for months.

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Speaker 1: Freeloader is. Indeed, there's a photo I've seen this morning

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Speaker 1: of Olivi Newton John and hearing those early songs. They

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Speaker 1: were all in a book that I had of guitar music,

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Speaker 1: and on the cover was this photo of Olivia in

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Speaker 1: a denim shirt, just looking so beautiful. And I went

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Speaker 1: for guitar lessons and all I wanted to play was

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Speaker 1: Olivin Newton John songs.

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Speaker 2: But somehow any particular song, which was all of.

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Speaker 1: Those early songs, I loved them all, but my teacher

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Speaker 1: wanted me to learn Spanish flamenco guitar, so I was

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Speaker 1: here to play pop song, the guitar and strange, so

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Speaker 1: every week I go there. But while I had to

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Speaker 1: learn flamenco, he just pick up my book of Olivi

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Speaker 1: Newton John songs and just stare at the picture on

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Speaker 1: the front. I didn't blame him because she's gorgeous.

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Speaker 2: So you're not going to bring out the guitar and

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Speaker 2: built out of Jason.

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Speaker 1: I wish i'd learned those songs. I can do some

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Speaker 1: Spanish flamenco, of course, I like to hear that