Entertainment superstar Donny Osmond came of age in the mid-1970s – an era of long-haired rock stars and sexual liberation. But Osmond and the rest of his performing siblings, with their traditional Mormon upbringing, had more in common with the previous generation. They favored the style of gracious song and dance men with canned stage patter, over the increasingly popular style of youthful rebellion. Fortunately, even the rebellious, hedonistic decade of the seventies needed perky entertainers who said “yes, sir” as much as it needed angry delinquents, and Osmond was able to parlay being an
