Delta Goodrem collaborates with Olivia Newton-John, Dan Sultan, Georgia Flood on biopic soundtrack
Delta Goodrem collaborates with Olivia Newton-John, Dan Sultan and Georgia Flood on I Honestly Love You, the soundtrack to Seven Network’s Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted To You biopic in which she plays the lead role.
Seven is still keeping tight-lipped about when the biopic screens but Sony is releasing the album on May 11.
Goodrem duets with Newton-John, ‘Love is a Gift’ and ‘Let Me Be There’.
Sultan features on ‘You’re the One That I Want’ and Flood on ‘Today’.
‘Love is a Gift’ is released as the lead-off single.
“I couldn’t think of anyone better to play my life,” states Newton-John.
“I respect Delta as a person and as an artist.
“I love her voice; she has an amazing range, and whoa, she does things vocally that just take my breath away.
“When we wrote ‘Love Is A Gift’, we wrote it as a love song.
“Now, when [Delta and I] sing it, it’s about friendship and love between friends.
“And so it still has the same meaning; it’s just a different time for the song.”
Goodrem adds, “I love the sentiment of this song – the lyrics just hit me and the simplicity of the message saying love is a gift.”
The Voice coach points out, “Having Olivia as a friend for all these years has been such an incredible gift.
“From a young age, she was an artist I admired and looked up to.”
Go behind the scenes of the recording session with Delta and Olivia here.
Four-time Grammy award winner Newton-John has had five #1s in the United States and ten Top 10 hits, and two chart-topping albums Stateside.
Two of her singles have sold 2 million in the US; she has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide.
The soundtrack to Grease, which she starred in opposite John Travolta, shifted 8 million and one of the best selling soundtracks of all time.
‘Physical’ which reached #1 in Australia, spent ten weeks at top spot n the US where it sold two million.
‘Hopelessly Devoted to You’ was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song.
‘You’re The One That I Want’ has become one of the best-selling singles of all time, with over 6 million units sold worldwide.
‘Magic’ was a #1 US Billboard Hot 100 Single for 4 weeks.
Track listing for I Honestly Love You:
- You’re the One That I Want (feat. Dan Sultan)
- I Honestly Love You
- Physical
- Magic
- Hopelessly Devoted To You
- Xanadu
- Let Me Be There (Delta Goodrem & Olivia Newton-John)
- Today (feat. Georgia Flood)
- Till You Say You’ll Be Mine
- Anyone Who Had A Heart
- If Not For You
- Trust Yourself
- Love is a Gift (Delta Goodrem & Olivia Newton-John)