| Type: | Interview |
|---|---|
| first airdate: | 1971 |
| broadcaster: | ABC |
| Production country: |
AU |
| Duration: | 4 min |
A short
but quite in-depth interview with Doug Parkinson by a pool. Olivia
talks of her experience with Toomorrow, fatal
as she describes it.
Toomorrow were signed for 7 years to do a film and 3 albums a
year. They got lots of publicity and 3 million was spent but two years
later they found out that the public did not accept them. Olivia thinks that this is understandable and quotes an unnamed English
DJ - the public wanted to see a group struggle from the bottom upwards
rather than a group arrive with the benefit of lots of
publicity and money behind them.
Olivia is asked if she considers being a female singer more difficult. Olivia replies that she thinks it's easier because there are less of them.
It's hardly a prophetic interview, Olivia discusses her
ambition to keep getting better but that she's not hugely
ambitious to be a huge star or anything like that.
The interviewer
questions if she'll be stale by the age of 30 or 35, Olivia replies in
a shocked tone Oh I hope not. Don't say that!
Of course after Grease
she became a huge star and she's hardly stale 35
years later in her 50s!
Snippets of this interview often turn up on Australian documentaries about Olivia.
