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 ......The single he wrote with Lucas, Same Heartbreak, Different Day, also strikes a bittersweet note; it was released just a few weeks before his lifelong friend Olivia Newton-John died.

Marx met the Australian legend not long after he moved to Los Angeles and they often performed together over the years, releasing the duet Never Far Away in 2002.

“For my 20th birthday, she took me to this beautiful restaurant, which you couldn’t get into but she was Olivia Newton-John,” he says.

“We were friends for most of my life and I had a tremendous respect for her creatively, musically, she’s one of the most remarkable people I ever knew.

“We wrote a song together back in those early days … it was almost finished and we kept threatening to get back together to write again.”

He plans to raise a glass in her honour with their mutual friend Richard Wilkins when he returns to Australia for the Songwriter tour next year which kicks off at QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane, on February 24 and finishes at the Astor Theatre, Perth, on March 10.

 

 

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