British-Australian actress and singer Olivia Newton-John, star of the 70s and 80s, has died in Los Angeles aged 73. His role in the musical “Grease”, alongside John Travolta, marked an entire generation. She had made screening and the fight against cancer the fight of her last thirty years.
Olivia Newton-John will forever be the character of Sandy from the film greaseby Randal Kleiser, a musical comedy released at the cinema in 1978. A romance in 1950s America where a wise young girl is transformed into an ultra sexy blonde, all dressed in leather to win back Danny, the leader of the T- Birds, the chosen one of his heart, a slicked back black jacket (this is the translation of grease) portrayed by actor John Travolta.
The critics kill the film but the duo works wonders and the teenagers make it a worldwide success. Olivia Newton-John becomes an icon of the disco period.
Coming to the cinema a little by chance, she will not last forever and continues her musical career. It was in music that Olivia Newton-John broke through in the United States in 1974, winning with several country pop albums. In 1981 she topped the charts with her album Physical. A career in song crowned by 4 Grammy Awards.
Her voice has been part of the soundtrack of an entire generation and of Australia, which mourns her this Tuesday, reports our correspondent in Melbourne, Gregory Plesse. But above all she was a generous and wonderful person “… It is in these terms that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, like many other Australian personalities, paid tribute to him.
Singer Kylie Minogue recalled that she has always considered the one who gives the reply to John Travolta in Grease as a model, while several political figures have welcomed her commitment to cancer research.
Since I was ten years old, I have loved and looked up to Olivia Newton John. And, I always will. (Just like this picture @nfsaonline) She was, and always will be, an inspiration to me in so many, many ways. My deepest condolences to her family and loved ones. x ONJ4EVER pic.twitter.com/3nE8PVDFLy
— Kylie Minogue (@kylieminogue) August 8, 2022
Over the past thirty years, the singer had fought against several recurrences of breast cancer, raising funds to finance research and a foundation that she had created… A commitment for which she was knighted by the Queen of England in 2019.
Although she died in California, where she had lived for forty years, Daniel Andrews, the leader of the state of Victoria, indicated that he would speak with the family of Olivia Newtown John about the organization of official funerals in Melbourne, the city where she grew up…