Olivia Newton-John, acclaimed singer and 'Grease' and 'Xanadu' star, dies at 73 [Breaking]
Olivia Netwon-John, the beloved singer and actor known for her 1970s and ’80s hits and the movie “Grease,” died at her ranch in Southern California on Monday at age 73.
The Grammys came quickly. She won female country vocal performance for “Let Me Be There” in 1974 and pop vocal performance and record of the year for “I Honestly Love You” in 1975. The latter hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 that year, ahead of “Have You Never Been Mellow” that year. Other stories mentioned a need for more security when she played in Las Vegas if “the men in the audience get any more enthusiastic” than they were at one midnight show.“The only nasty thing people can find to say about N-J is that she’s too nice,” The Times wrote in 1977 while Newton-John was in production on her first big-budget feature film. “Her Sandra Dee-ish part in ‘Grease’ ... will do nothing to change her goody image.”include a notable image overhaul.
Newton-John had lived with manager Lee Kramer at a time when “living with” wasn’t the norm, and she still wrangled with being pretty. Newton-John wound up lowering her profile from its fan-fueled peak, which had seen her smiling from glossy magazine covers regularly. She married “Xanadu” actor-dancer Matt Lattanzi in 1984 and two years later they had a daughter, Chloe. Living in Malibu’s Paradise Cove, she focused on her family and her environmental advocacy.
She continued releasing music and amped up her efforts to fight cancer, eventually opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Center in the late 2000s in Melbourne, Australia.
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