Grease star and singer Olivia Newton-John dies at 73

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Singer Olivia Newton-John, who gained worldwide fame as the high school sweetheart Sandy in the hit movie Grease, died on Monday (Aug 8) after a 30-year battle with cancer. She was 73. Newton-John “passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern...

There was no one else “in the universe” who could play Sandy, he said of Newton-John, who turned 29 during the making of Grease and later revealed she had to be convinced by Travolta to take up the role after self-doubts that she was too old to play a teenager.

“If you were a young man in the 70s..., if you remember that album cover with Olivia with that blue shirt on, with those big blue eyes staring at you,” Travolta recalled.John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John pose at a 40th anniversary screening of Grease, on Aug 15, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS Her career would span from singer and actor, to author and philanthropist in the coming decades, with her passion for cancer research at the forefront, championing natural therapies, including medicinal cannabis in the treatment of cancer.

She performed into her late 60s, until her latest diagnosis, including a two-year residency in Vegas, a 2015 tour with Australian music legend John Farnham and even recording a Club Dance track at 67 with her daughter Chloe Lattanzi.“So I feel grateful for anything that happens now.”

 

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