Millions of young men (now old) will tell you she was their first crush and after this watching this show it's easy to see why. It harks back to a more innocent time at the beginning of the video clip revolution. So if you have the chance to watch this don't turn it down. While she still has a profile, it's hard to believe that Olivia was the Britney of her day, and a little sad that know her life would be blighted by ongoing battles with cancer and personal tragedies only a few years later. She frolics in the sea, in a mirrored room, walks through the desert and swims with dolphins, maintaining an odd mix of cute sexiness and sweetness. And she has a very distinctive and emotive voice, unlike anything today. The fact is that it does look as dated as you'd expect, but she was just so attractive it's unbelievable. Physical is the eleventh studio album by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, released on October 13, 1981, via her longtime label MCA/EMI Records. Like many people, I was a fan of Olivia back in the day and I wanted to see how it all held up some 30 years later. Yet she remained proud of her roots: her father was an MI5 officer who worked on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park during the war her maternal grandfather was the Nobel prize-winning physicist Max Born, who sought exile in the UK from Nazi Germany on the eve of the second world war.I was recently staying at my parents and came across this DVD and decided to give it a watch. The film remains a much-loved staple of the small screen and the singalong circuit its soundtrack is one of the top 10 biggest sellers of all time.īorn in Cambridge, England, in 1948, Newton-John and her family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, when she was six. Physical : Olivia Newton-John / Produced : John FarrarPhysical (1981)Olivia Newton-JohnIm saying all the things that I know youll likeMaking good conversat. Newton-John’s performance was nominated for a Golden Globe and she performed Hopelessly Devoted to You at the 1979 Oscars. Grease was the biggest box-office hit of the year, and its soundtrack album spent 12 consecutive weeks at No 1 in the US. The role was also altered to accommodate her Australian accent.

Offered the lead role of Sandy, sweet summer squeeze of cool cat John Travolta, after meeting the producer at a dinner party, the then 29-year-old Newton-John had to be persuaded to take the part, worried she was too old to play a high-school senior. Olivia Newton-John, the British-Australian pop star perhaps best known for her generation-defining role as Sandy in Grease, has died aged 73, its been announced. Her prominence as an activist for research and better treatment will likely remain as key an element of her legacy as her showbiz career, which included four Grammy wins and the sale of more than 100m records.īut it was Grease, the perky 1978 adaptation of the Broadway musical for which she will be most fondly remembered. Newton-John’s daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, paid tribute to her mother with a selection of images on Instagram, including pictures of Lattanzi as a baby.Īfter her first cancer diagnosis, Newton-John became a prominent campaigner, setting up the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Research Centre in Melbourne. Yours from the moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!” Her signature solo recordings include the Record of the Year Grammy winner 'I Honestly Love You' (1974) and 'Physical' (1981) Billboard s highest-ranking Hot 100 single of the 1980s. Picking up where Totally Hot and Xanadu left off, Physical. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. The thing was, Physical was a damn good record, in many ways one of Olivia Newton-Johns very best. Travolta posted a heartfelt message on social media, writing: “My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better.

Tributes to Newton-John began appearing shortly after her family’s statement. Hopelessly devoted … Olivia Newton-John as Sandy and John Travolta as Danny in 1978 smash hit Grease.

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