6-peaking “Summer Nights.”įollowing the smashing success of Grease, Newton-John revamped her image on her platinum-selling 1978 solo album Totally Hot, which featured her dressed from head to toe in leather on the cover. 2-peaking “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and the No. The Grease soundtrack has sold approximately 28 million copies worldwide and produced the chart-topping duet “You’re the One That I Want,” as well as the No. With her music career firmly established, Newton-John jumped to the silver screen in the 1978 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease, starring as Sandy Olsson alongside Travolta’s Danny Zuko. Her career exploded the following year with the release of If You Love Me, Let Me Know, which topped the Billboard 200 and spawned her first of five No. with 1973's “Let Me Be There,” which also earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Newton-John scored her first Top 10 hit in the U.S. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking her first entry on the chart. The title track, written by Bob Dylan, peaked at No. She recorded her first single, “Till You Say You’ll Be Mine,” for England’s Decca Records in 1966, though her debut solo album, If Not for You, did not arrive until five years later. 26, 1948, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Newton-John began singing in girl groups and acting on local television shows as a teenager. She is also survived by her daughter Chloe Lattanzi. The Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund is dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.
The diagnosis propelled her into becoming a breast cancer awareness spokesperson. She succumbed to breast cancer first diagnosed in 1992 and became metastatic in 2017. Her death was announced by her husband, John Easterling, through her Facebook page. Newton-John was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1979 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2020 Honours for services to charity, cancer research, and entertainment. She would make one more appearance in that season’s finale, “Journey (to Regionals)”, as Newton-John had been hired as a celebrity judge for the regional show choir competition. She guest starred as herself on a first season episode of the Fox television phenomenon Glee, titled “Bad Reputation” with Jane Lynch’s Sue Sylvester joining her on vocals for plot reasons. Its music video was so “Of course we don’t mean sex, overzealous parents!” that in 2010 she got the chance to remake the video exactly how she meant it. Her music, on the other hand, would still be a hit in the ‘80s, especially with 1981’s career-defining “Physical”.
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This resulted in her mostly leading TV movies after that point. However, it was still a devastating blow to her acting career, compounded by the failure of her reteaming with John Travolta, in 1983’s Two of a Kind. This album reached double platinum as well. It has become a cult classic, in part for its soundtrack of late 1970s and early 1980s pop and rock music. Following a double platinum album called Totally Hot, she returned to the big screen with Xanadu, another musical that was panned critically and a box office flop. These songs in particular were Billboard Top 5 simultaneously. Its soundtrack is one of the top-selling music records of all time and features several songs she leads or duets on, including “Summer Nights” and “Hopelessly Devoted to You”.
The Australian actress and singer, beloved for her role as Sandy Olsson in the 1978 film adaptation of the musical Grease, died Monday, August 8, 2022, at the age of 73.īorn on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge in the United Kingdom, Newton-John already had two number-one albums on the Billboard 200 when she starred in Grease.
Olivia Newton-John has taken her car to the sky.
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