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OBITUARY OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN

September - October 2022

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Vu dans le mag "CLASSIC POP"  

As Classic Pop went to press, news broke that much-loved Grease star Dame Olivia Newton-John had died at the age of 73. The singer’s husband, John Easterling, said she “passed away peacefully at her ranch in southern California this morning [8 August], surrounded by family and friends”. Born in Cambridge in 1948, Newton-John moved with her family to Australia in 1954. Her Welsh father, Brinley Newton-John, had been a British spy during World War 2, while her mother, Irene Helene, was the daughter of the German Nobel laureate, Max Born. Newton-John released her first album in 1971, If Not For You. Its title track, a cover of a Bob Dylan song, reached No.7 in the UK. It was in 1978, at the age of 29, that she won the role…..

Dans le EMPIRE anglais  : Remembering the electrifying Olivia Newton-John

Empire salutes the late, great Olivia Newton-John’s iconic performance in Grease !

BEFORE WALKING THE halls of Rydell High School in Grease in 1978, Olivia Newton-John was a wholesome, Grammy-winning country singer with seven US number-one singles under her belt. Yet as Sandy — aka the painfully prim Sandra Dee — Newton-John turned in an astonishing, surprising and career-defining performance. We hail three of the key moments. THE DRIVE-IN Newton-John — aself-described girl next door who made an impression upon the film’s producer, Alan Carr, at a dinner party — was 29 when she was offered the role of high-school sweetheart Sandy opposite John Travolta’s heartbreaker Danny. The scene the pair acted out in their screen test — in which Danny and Sandy set off on an ill-fated date to the drive-in — proved such a hit that Carr claims it wasn’t…..

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OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN

26 de septiembre de 1948, Cambridge, Inglaterra (Reino Unido)-8 de agosto de 2022, California (EE. UU.)

FILMOGRAFÍA 1965.–Funny Things Happen Down Under; 1970.–Tomorrow, Sounds Like Les Dawson (especial televisión); 1978.–Grease; 1980.–Xanadú; 1983.–Tal para cual; 1988.–La loca aventura del matrimonio; 1990.–Una madre para Navidad (película televisión); 1994.–Un romance en Navidad (película televisión); 1995.–La saga de los McGregor: Servant of the People, The Search, The Lost Child (serie televisión), Matrimonio de conveniencia: Reality Check (serie televisión); 1996.–It’s My Party (Fiesta de despedida); 1997.–Murphy Brown: I Hear a Symphony (serie televisión); 1998.–The Christmas Angel: A Story on Ice (película televisión); 2000.–Sordid Lives; 2001.–Bette: The Invisible Mom (serie televisión), The Wilde Girls (película televisión); 2008.–Sordid Lives: The Series (serie televisión); 2010.–Score: A Hockey Musical, Glee: Bad Reputation, Journey to Regionals; 2011.–Una boda de muerte; 2017.–Sharknado 5: aletamiento global; 2020.–The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee. 

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