John Farrar (pronounced Fare-ah) followed a path from his native Australia to England and finally to America that carried him from a career as a guitarist to a singer/songwriter and ultimately -- in conjunction with Olivia Newton-John -- to become one of the world's most successful producers of the 1970's and early 1980's.
Farrar was born in Melbourne, Australia, in late 1946, and he took up the guitar at age 12, in 1957, just as rock 'n' roll was making itself felt in Australia. By 1961, he was gigging with local rock bands in Melbourne. With fame and fortune far off in the future, Farrar thought he'd wind up being an obscure guitar player toiling away at equally obscure, out-of-the-way recording studios.
But in 1964, he replaced Laurie Arthur on lead guitar in the Melbourne band the Strangers.
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