Listen to Olivia Newton-John’s New Song ‘My Dream,’ Released Posthumously
While Olivia Newton-John passed away two years ago from breast cancer, her incredible voice and legacy live on. Now, her never-before-heard song called “My Dream” has been released, and there is a very moving story behind the new single. Her friend and musical collaborator Jim Brickman found an unfinished version of the song in old cassette tapes and helped finish it with Italian trio Il Volo.
Brickman shared, “I met Olivia when I was invited to open for her on concert tour. A really great honor, and a wonderful musical match. She did something that ‘stars’ hardly ever do. She stood backstage and watched my set almost every night, many times with curlers in her hair. It was so supportive and gracious, inspiring me to do my best. It’s a wonderful memory, I can just see her there.”
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He added that the song “started as a romantic duet, but has now become more significant as a theme that resonated with Olivia about her dream and hope for a cure for cancer.” 100% of the proceeds from the song will go to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, now run by her widower John Easterling. The foundation helps cancer patients.
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Easterling added about the tune and its proceeds, “How generous of Jim Brickman and their whole team for donating all the proceeds from this inspiring song. I mean, it wasn’t an accident that he found this song that they had done and never really put out. And it’s so timely with the results and the things that we’re seeing.”
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He said that with the fund “we’re sponsoring plant medicine and cancer research. And the beauty of that is that we’re seeing quite stunning results in the early stages.” He continued, “Olivia’s dream was really to realize the world beyond cancer.”
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