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Six pages of nice monochrome pictures in this pleasing fan's eye view of Olivia's career - more factually accurate and indepth than most other books about her!

Title: Frenchy's Grease Scrapbook, Author: Didi Conn, Publisher: Hyperion, 1998, ppbk 180 pp ISBN 0786883456

Lots of Olivia pictures in this book written by the actress who plays Frenchy in the movie. Some interesting background, and several rare photos, though sometimes the photo quality leaves a little to be desired.

May be out of print. Recommended

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This one is by Olivia and not about Olivia, though it has a nice color photo on the back cover. A nicely illustrated children's tale with an environmental theme. Now also available as a paperback.

This one is of the best of the bunch of Olivia biographies. It begins inaccurately, stating "Olivia was born on September 29, 1950..." (she was born on September 26th 1948) but after this shaky start we have a pleasing late-Seventies perspective on Olivia's career. Peter Ruff's book is a cornucopia of rare 60's and 70's black-and-white pictures to delight fans, and by the general standards of ONJ books his writing stands out as being competent and readable.

Out-of-print. Highly Recommended

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A self-published book with a collection of archive articles, fans' photos and fans' stories about meeting Olivia etc. The articles chosen concentrate mostly on Olivia's private life, although at least the author points out that press cuttings don't always reveal the true story. Color cover, plus 8 color pages of photos plus over 30 pages of black and white photos.

Pleasant Seventies book pitched at a young-ish readership (with Olivia's story used as a role model and for inspiration). Some nice pictures.

Out-of-print.

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A self-published book with many black and white photos (mostly taken from the internet and not great quality). The author discusses Olivia's career and her music and movie releases.Color cover. This is Gregory's second book about Olivia, "More Than Physical was published in 1994. More details

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14 pages of reasonably sharp b/w Grease photos. The novel is so-so, basically it is the story of the film told from Sonny's point of view.

A book written for teenagers with a lowdown of Olivia's career to date with hand drawings.

Out-of-print.

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Featuring the sheet music for Love Is A Gift (p83) which many people have been looking for!

A book looking back on the Australian TV series Countdown. Olivia appeared for a dance contest to promote Xanadu in 1980. The book includes a short report of this and two photos from this: one full-page in colour and one smaller black and white. Also released was an audio CD.

Buy from ABC Shop in Australia.

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A low-budget collection of facts, poorly scanned photographs and writing, this so-called 'collector's guide' has sent ONJ collectors on a wild-goose chase after collectibles that never existed. The author starts badly on page 7 where "Olivia's first taste of the music business was the 1970 film Tomoorow" where in fact her first Decca 45 predated that by four years. More details Out of print

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A coffee sized publication featuring candid portraits of 50 of entertainment's mothers and daughters. Includes a lovely full page black and white photo of Olivia and Chloe and one page of short prose.

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30 remarkable women from all walks of life tell how they faced up to the fear and uncertainty surrounding being diagnosed with breast cancer and how they have come through with a zest for life. There's a 5 page chapter from Olivia (based on three interviews she gave to the UK newspaper Daily Mail) including a full page colour photo.

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This book lists every Adult Contemporary (AC) chart topper from 1961 to March 1999. Olivia appears 10 times for number one AC hits beginning with If Not For You to her last to date Magic in 1980 (the book has a total of about 8 ONJ pages including two black and white photos). The write-ups to Olivia's AC hits include comments by producer John Farrar which make it particularly interesting.

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An Australian booklet with a holistic approach to coping with a diagnosis of cancer. Olivia writes the forward to the book (2 pages including small black and white photo).

Recommended for anyone diagnosed with cancer

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All about the Seventies American music TV special with photos, line-ups and details including some 70s appearances by Olivia.

Australian music book with Piano/Vocal/chords music to the songs Close To Me, Spinning His Wheels, Under My Skin, Back With A Heart; I Honestly Love You.  Details. Out-of-print.

Japanese Piano book, with a very nice (colour!) cover picture of Olivia, and the music for 13 songs. Details Maybe Out-of-print.

Fun comic-strip adaptation of the film using stills from the movie.

Out-of-print. (although widely available on second hand/used market)

Four-page section on Olivia with nice large format colour pic, and reasonably detailed/accurate early UK period bio.

Out-of-print.

Introduction by Olivia (2 pages). Read here

Out-of-print.

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One chapter in which arch stalker-buster Gav doesn't actually mention Olivia but it's pretty obvious who he's talking about, with tales of midnight chopper surveillance and torrential rain. If you're looking for music and film info this book's not for you :-)

Ralph Emery talks about the ruckus Olivia caused in the country music scene in the early Seventies, her fight against breast cancer and her BWAH album. Based on Ralph's 1998 TV interview with her (about 6pp plus one half page black and white photo)

Maybe Out-of-print.

About the phenomenon of star stalkers with a small section on ONJ stalkers.

Out-of-print.

Though Olivia features in just one chapter out of the 22 in this book (11 pages total), it is refreshing to find someone who writes cogently and accurately about Olivia!

Out-of-print. http://www.lost45.com/we_had_joy.html

Pleasant US Songbook with many nice color photos and some early '70s press extracts as well as the words and music for several of Olivia's early hits.

Out-of-print.

Some bitter and twisted musings from an old Shadow who used to go out with Olivia - it's a cracking good read about a part of Olivia's life she still doesn't talk about, though one doubts the absolute veracity of some of Bruce's tales. He's still sore about something about that relationship, even though more than 25 years have passed since then...

Out-of-print.Recommended for gossips :-)

Title: Rock Biggest Ten, Author: David Dachs 1979 ppbk

A 14 page chapter about Olivia with black and white photos. Read chapter here

Out-of-print.

Two pages of black and white photos - see here

Two photos from 1978 and Olivia mentioned a few times in the text

18 pages and three b/w photos. History of Olivia up to just before Grease, with some nice quotes from Olivia including the following gem "The world is turning to romance in every area." Olivia philosophizes. "There are more women in films, and violence is slowly disappearing. The success of Charlie's Angels proves that people like to look at pretty things."

Out-of-print. Recommended

10 page chapter about Olivia plus two black and white photos. Nice write-up with quotes from Olivia (taken from press articles). It concentrates on her love of animals and her early life and career. The author includes Olivia's then breakfast drink recipe: bran, 1 banana, 1 orange, 1 egg, milk and honey all blended together. Mmm... we'll stick to the muesli!
Read the chapter

Out-of-print.

A book with three chapters on Cher, Roberta Flack and Olivia with color and black and white photos. Chapter about Olivia 14 pages long, written with a young audience in mind.

Out-of-print.

Biography of singer Dusty Springfield. Has a nice paragraph about Olivia in relation to the inspiration she gave Dusty when she discovered she had breast cancer. Also contains a small black and white photo circa 1978 of Dusty with Olivia and Rod Stewart.

Maybe Out-of-print.

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Biography of Olivia's grandfather Max born. Olivia isn't featured in this book except for a few very brief mentions. It features letters that Olivia's mother Irene translated between Max Born and Einstein. The book is also available in German.

Thanks to Kay Bohlen

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Off-the-wall book which is a very entertaining read in its own way, based on Tracey Ullman's US comedy show of the same name. Has one picture of Olivia in the episode where she saves the character brought up by dingoes from a really bad fate...

Out-of-print.