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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN?

• Daily Mail
• 8 May 2023
• BY ETAN SMALLMAN

1. JuST The Two Of us, a new duets album by Dame Olivia newtonJohn (who died in August last year, aged 73), was released last week. Which of these is nOT true:

A. She was born in the UK, in Cambridge 

B. She was the niece of Doris Day 

C. She was the daughter of a World War II Bletchley Park codebreaker

2. She was the granddaughter of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist 2WHAT was her stage name when she first started out? 

A. Lovely Livvy

B. Jolly Oly

C. Sweet Suzy

D. Funky Fiona

3. TRuE OR FALSE: Her Pink Ladies jacket from grease  sold at auction for almost half a million dollars.

4. WHICH of these did she win? 

A. Golden Raspberry (Razzie) award for worst actress

B. Country Music Association female vocalist of the year

C. Eurovision Song Contest

D. Oscar for best original song

5. HER risque 1981 chart hit Physical was co-written by a longtime friend, but was originally intended for:

A. Cher

B. Tina Turner

C. Duran Duran

D. Rod Stewart

6. TRuE OR FALSE: She co- starred in gene Kelly’s last film.

Thanks KAY

1) B. She was the niece of Doris Day

However, rolling Stone magazine described her as ‘a sweet, innocent 70s version of Doris Day’. her father had been an Mi5 officer assigned to the Enigma codebreaking unit at Bletchley, while her maternal grandfather was german nobelwinning physicist Max Born. 

2) A. Lovely Livvy

AS A teenager, she performed under the name Lovely Livvy on radio and tv in Australia, where her family had moved in 1954.

3) FALSE

But her skintight black trousers and leather jacket from the film’s closing scenes went under the hammer for $405,700 (£300,000) in 2019, in a charity auction to raise funds for newton- John’s cancer wellness centre in Australia.

4) B. Country Music Association female vocalist of the year

When she won the title in 1974, beating the likes of Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, some nashville stars protested by forming a short-lived rival organisation intended to exclude pop singers from their turf. She was nominated twice for a razzie, but never won. She represented the UK in the 1974 Eurovision, but came fourth (Abba’s Waterloo won). hopelessly Devoted to you, from grease, was Oscar nominated.

5) D. Rod Stewart

The song — whose video was set in a gym — became the biggest hit of her American career, but was banned by several radio stations in Utah for being too raunchy.

6) TRUE

in 1980, she was the star of Xanadu, in which gene Kelly both acted and choreographed. he retired not long after.

 

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