Obituary: Singer-actress Olivia Newton-John, 73, lost her 30-year battle with breast cancer today and died peacefully at her home in southern California. TMZ reported it, but the origin of the story was from her official Facebook page.
She had her biggest fame in the 1970s. She was an attractive woman, which helped because I personally didn't think she could sing her way out of a paper bag, but a lot of people liked her. She was extremely popular in the 1978 film Grease.
My niece and I were talking about her the other day when we went to the Oregon coast and talked about all the crap ONJ went through including that guy who faked his death or some damned thing and put her through a lot of stress over nothing. What a creep. And of course ONJ had health problems from her early forties until her death.
As the article notes, she was born in the UK but raised in Australia. I believe her father was an academic.
Newton-John was born Sept. 26, 1948, in Cambridge, England, but was raised in Melbourne, Australia. At age 16, she won a talent contest trip to England. She sang with Pat Carroll as Pat & Olivia. She also sang with the group Toomorrow in a British movie of the same name.
Newton-John landed her first hit in 1971 with a wistful cover version of Bob Dylan’s “If Not for You.” The song reached No. 25 on the Hot 100 in September 1971. But her immediate follow-ups fell short. She made her first sustained impression on the charts starting in 1973 as a pop-country singer. She had seven top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, climbing as high as No. 2 on that chart with the jaunty “If You Love Me (Let Me Know).”
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