Olivia Newton-John, ‘Grease’ Star and ‘Physical’ Singer, Dies at 73
Veteran entertainer Olivia Newton-John died this morning (Aug. 8) at 73, next a extended battle with breast cancer. A Fb assertion from her husband, John Easterling, extra that John handed away surrounded by relatives and pals at her ranch in southern California.

To start with identified with breast cancer in 1992, John defeat the disorder on a range of situations and funneled her energies into the Olivia Newton-John Foundation, an impartial charity sponsoring world research into plant drugs for most cancers.

John is very best recognized for her starring purpose reverse John Travolta in the 1978 movie Grease and her throughout the world smash hit solitary from 1981, “Physical.” She was built a dame by Queen Elizabeth in 2019 for “services to charity, most cancers investigation and leisure.”

The artist was born Sept. 26, 1948, in Cambridge, England, and moved to Melbourne with her spouse and children at the age of six. She was doing on Australian Tv shows by the age of 14 and produced her to start with one, “Till You Say You’ll Be Mine,” in the U.K. as a result of Decca in 1966.

All over the 1970s, she launched a series of productive pop- and state-inflected albums and in 1974 represented the U.K. in the Eurovision Track Contest, placing fourth in a year that ABBA took dwelling the best prize for “Waterloo.” Between 1974-6, Newton-John amassed 7 consecutive No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Grownup Modern chart, together with “I Actually Appreciate You,” “Please Mr. Please” and “Something Far better To Do.”

Newton-John became a around the globe house title thanks to Grease, the top-executing movie at the U.S. box office in 1978. The soundtrack was also massive seller, spawning a few top 5 hits on The Billboard Warm 100, such as Newtown-John’s No. 1 “You’re the A single That I Want.”

Newton-John’s job cooled in the mid-1980s next “Physical,” the potential cult-traditional movie Xanadu and the 1983 box-office flop Two of a Form, which re-teamed her with Travolta. But she ongoing to document and complete even after her original most cancers diagnosis, and also grew to become a well-recognised advocate for animal legal rights.

