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BIOGRAPHY O'Neill began her career in the 1970s in her home country, then gained major success in Australia with the hit "Words" and the subsequent singles "How Do You Talk to Boys?", "Losing You", and "Maybe". The early 1980s proved her most commercially successful period, performing the soundtrack to the 1981 film " Smash Palace ", and with the ''Foreign Affairs'' album in 1983 spawning her biggest hit "Maxine". A legal battle with her then Record Company Sony Music caused a delay in her career. During the enforced hiatus, O'Neill wrote songs for ABC TV series '' Sweet And Sour '' (1984) including the title song performed by Deborah Conway (later recorded by O'Neill as ''In Control'') and ''Glam to Wham'' . In 1988 Sharon returned with arguably her best album (if under-rated at the time) ''Danced in the Fire'' on Polygram Records which featured some biographical songs about the legal wrangles with Sony. O'Neill's last album of new material, ''Edge of Winter'', was released in 1990. A mature work, two singles were taken from this album, "Satin Sheets" and "Poster Girl", both of which failed to find chart success. She all but disappeared from the music scene until 2001 when she toured as a guest artist with New Zealand female act, When the Cat's Away. In 2005 she toured Australia as a support act for Leo Sayer and for the first time a comprehensive collection of her greatest hits was released on CD. In 2006 O'Neill again toured Australia supporting Leo Sayer. In August / September 2007 Sharon toured as part of the ' Countdown Spectacular 2' shows Australia-wide. Frontier Touring Co. DISCOGRAPHY Singles
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