Home Ain't Home Anymore
HOME Ain’t Home Anymore is more than just the name of a number on a new Olivia Newton-John album. The title says a lot about the way of life of its singer.
In her 25 years, Olivia has had two homelands England and Australia and the way her career is shaping she may add the United States to her list.
There seems little doubt the U.S. will be seeing more and more of Olivia, who was born in England, spent her childhood in Australia, and returned to England at 16 after winning the trip with a performance on the Johnny O’Keefe Show.
Following up her Grammy Award earlier this year for Let Me Be There. Olivia has been in the U.S. for a season at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and appearances in Disneyland.
She has planned several new songs for the American market - and Home Ain’t Home Anymore is one of them.
The inspiration for the song, written by Peter Robinson of the Melbourne group The Strangers, and former Stranger John Farrar, now in England, was the trip Olivia made to Australia last year after nearly nine years away. Faces and places had changed so much that she felt somewhat out of things.
She told Robinson and Farrar, and they came up with a song to express her mood. During her Disneyland engagement, Olivia took the opportunity of looking over Hollywood.
At left she is pictured standing on Hollywood Boulevard’s “sidewalk of stars,” so named because of the embedded emblems on which personalities have their names engraved.
Right now, Olivia has greater claims to fame than sidewalk stardom.
Photos: Yoram Kahana