Olivia Newton-John has died at the age of 73. Here, we pay tribute to the singer-songwriter and ‘Grease’ star’s life and work.
made $9.3 million in its opening weekend, becoming the biggest box-office hit of 1978 and highest grossing musical film of all time, until the release ofin 2008. Famously sewn into her black satin pants for the final scene, Newton-John sold them at auction in 2019 to Spanx founder Sara Blakely for $160,000. “I thought it was the bomb,” Travolta toldof Sandy’s transformation from virginal to vixen. “She was like Marilyn Monroe mixed with some motorcycle chick.
In 1979, Newton-John received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth, while in 1990, she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Environmental Program.
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, the singer set up the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Melbourne in 2008. She relapsed in 2013, and in 2017, was told the cancer had metastasised and spread to her bones. “Yes, I’ve enjoyed making records and films, but the hospital gave me a purpose in life,” Newton-JohnThe youngest of three children, Newton-John was born in Cambridge on 26 September 1948.
Aged six in 1954, Newton-John emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, with her father taking up the post of professor of German at the University of Melbourne and Dean of Ormond College. She attended Christ Church Grammar School, then University High School. Her parents divorced when she was 11.
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