# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-farrar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:04:42.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-farrar"
name: "John Farrar"
slug: "john-farrar"
description: "John Clifford Farrar is an Australian music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist. As a musician, Farrar is a former member of several rock and roll groups including The Mustangs (1963–1964), The Strangers (1964–1970), Marvin, Welch & Farrar (1970–1973), and The Shadows (1973–1976). In 1980, he released a solo eponymous album. As a songwriter and producer, he worked with Olivia Newton-John from 1971 to 1989. He wrote her U.S. number-one hit singles: \"Have You Never Been Mellow\" (1975), \"You're the One That I Want\", \"Hopelessly Devoted to You\" (1978), and \"Magic\" (1980). He also produced the majority of her recorded material during that time, including her number-one albums, If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974), Have You Never Been Mellow (1975), and Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1982). He was a co-producer of the soundtrack for the film Grease (1978)."
tagline: "Australian musician and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Farrar_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.89356933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268132/"
    handle:    "nm0268132"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3qOJwDZ69EXvsUm4st5aau"
    handle:    "John Farrar"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/271353"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "چوهن فارار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar"
    title: "John Farrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar_(Musiker)"
    title: "John Farrar (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar"
    title: "John Farrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar"
    title: "John Farrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar"
    title: "John Farrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar"
    title: "John Farrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar"
    title: "John Farrar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョン・ファーラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Фаррар, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3cdb56cd-0be9-44fb-b9fb-20ea31fb13d0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q913341"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3836194"
    title: "John Farrar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump