Happy Birthday to Olivia Newton-John's Grandfather!
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (62060)
United States
December 11, 2017 7:54am CST
Wow, wasn't that nice of Google?
Their "Google doodle" today (12/11) celebrates the 135th anniversary of the birth of physicist Max Born.
And he just happens to be Olivia Newton-John's grandfather.
Born in what's now Poland, Born was forced to leave the area during the rise of Nazi power in the 30s, leaving his job at a German university. He settled in England, and wouldn't you know one of his daughters married Brinley Newton-John.
And the rest is musical history.
Happy birth anniversary to Olivia Newton-John's grandfather!
Here's one of ONJ's early songs, when she sounded more country than a lot of country singers do today:
Olivia Newton-John performs her 1973 single "Let Me Be There" live on the British television program 'Sez Les'. The song was written by John Rostill and prod...
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Dec 17
Olivia. Sigh. She could read from the phonebook....!!!
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Vince and his mates used to call her Olivia Nuclear-Bomb. 
@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
12 Dec 17
Who knew? Not me. I learn something new everyday on here.
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