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ICONO DE TODA UNA GENERACIÓN

• Marie Claire España
• 22 Sep 2023
• por Belén Ester

UNA VIDA PLENA Olivia Newton-John siempre se sintió afortunada por todo lo conseguido en su vida. En la imagen, un retrato suyo de 1980.

Olivia Newton-John, icono de una generación.

RECORDADA PÚBLICAMENTE POR SU PAPEL DE SANDY EN LA MÍTICA 'GREASE' (IMPOSIBLE OLVIDARLA ENFUNDADA EN ESOS PANTALONES NEGROS), OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN FUE MÁS QUE UNA CARA BONITA. A SU CARRERA COMO CANTANTE Y ACTRIZ HAY QUE AÑADIRLE SU TESÓN POR VISIBILIZAR EL CÁNCER DE MAMA, ENFERMEDAD QUE LE DIAGNOSTICARON EN LOS AÑOS 90 Y QUE LA ACOMPAÑARÍA HASTA SU MUERTE EN 2022.

De vez en cuando, el mundo de las artes, plagado de cantantes, actores o escritores que tuvieron una infancia pobre –no escasa, sino pobre de verdad como la de Charles Chaplin o Tina Turner–, nos sorprende con algún niño bien que deja su acomodada familia para meterse en la furgoneta y recorrer los caminos en busca de su sueño. Uno de ellos fue la hija de un instruido profesor universitario y nieta de un Premio Nobel de Física que abandonó el camino intelectual al que apuntaba para subirse a un escenario y convertirse en estrella. Olivia Newton-John, que este 26 de septiembre habría cumplido 75 años, pasó su vida pegada a un micrófono demostrando que, a veces, el sueño, simplemente, se hace realidad.

Aunque nació en Reino Unido, desde los 5 años vivió en Melbourne. Su carrera como cantante estuvo ligada durante la década de los 70 a la música country, aunque supo adaptar su estilo a los cambios de tendencia de las diferentes décadas llenando sus 25 discos de estudio y sus seis de bandas sonoras de éxitos. Y así, cincuenta años.

FENÓMENO AUSTRALIANO

De 1971 a 1978, aquella joven australiana (el país la considera suya) sacaría diez álbumes, a una media de uno cada siete meses. Es la época de Angel of the morning, Take me home, I honestly love you, Please Mr. Please y la eurovisiva Long live love con la que logró un cuarto puesto representando al Reino Unido en 1974, año que ganó ABBA con Waterloo. Después de romper la lista de éxitos con ese sencillo y de venderse miles de copias del inclasificable vestido de gasa azul que llevó en la actuación, Olivia estaba en lo más alto. Delicada, bellísima y angelical, con una capacidad de ejecución musical impecable y un chorro de voz asombrosamente potente, no dejaba de sorprender en cada álbum.

Así empezaría una larga lista de 12 nominaciones a los Grammy que se llevó en cuatro ocasiones. La primera, ese mismo año como la Mejor presentación vocal femenina de country. Y es que su popularidad en Estados Unidos era tal (en España nunca fue tan potente) que se instaló en California donde no paraba de grabar discos, dar conciertos y salir en televisión. Olivia era un fenómeno. En plena época del disco y el tecno pop, la psicodelia, el punk, el heavy metal, el reggae, el rock urbano y el sinfónico, una cantante solista reivindicaba el pop personal, una suerte de glam rock sencillo y pegadizo que plagó su carrera de temazos y melancolía.

FENÓMENO GREASE

Por eso, fue asombroso verla tan desmelenada en la comedia musical Grease. Era 1978, y aunque a sus casi 30 años interpretaba a una joven de 17, el binomio Olivia Newton-John y John Travolta fue absolutamente explosivo porque se daban cita las dos estrellas musicales del momento: la reina del country y las baladas lánguidas, y el Tony Manero de Fiebre de sábado noche. Eran jóvenes, guapos, cantaban y bailaban. En ella, daba vida a una inocente joven australiana que se encuentra en su nuevo instituto con su amor de verano, un macarra que nada tiene que ver con el tierno joven que la había enamorado. Entre bailes y canciones inolvidables se encuentran, empiezan a salir, van a un concurso de baile y rompen hasta que acaba triunfando el amor cuando Sandy se da cuenta de que para que su relación con Danny triunfe, ella debe cambiar y transformarse en otra persona. El numerazo musical y magnetismo de la emblemática pareja no nubla un hecho paradójico que hoy la cultura de la cancelación prohibiría.

El fenómeno Grease fue imparable. Con una recaudación en taquilla de casi 400 millones de dólares y más de 30 millones de copias vendidas de su banda sonora, este es el álbum de mayor éxito en la carrera de la artista que no ha dejado nunca de interpretar sus canciones, desde el Hopelessly devoted to you a You’re the one that I want. Y es que Grease es un clásico del género musical cuyo éxito ha repicado en los escenarios de todo el mundo desde entonces de manera imparable. A día de hoy, Sandy sigue siendo una de las protagonistas femeninas más queridas de la década de los 70.

Después de la película, Olivia Newton-John siguió en la cima. Todavía no había llegado ni el palo más gordo, ni el clímax más alto de su carrera (ambos llegaron con apenas un año de diferencia). El primero fue con Xanadú en el año 80, una película surrealista y absurda en la que ella da vida a una hija de Zeus de quien se enamora un pintor con quien ayuda a un viejo músico a abrir un club nocturno a lo que se suman problemas del orden cósmico y números musicales en patines. Batacazo, aunque la banda sonora y la canción Magic fue un éxito total. El segundo, su éxito, fue Physical, tema central de su octavo disco que durante diez semanas fue número uno en la lista Billboard Hot 100, récord que no superó nadie en la década, ni Michael Jackson, ni Diana Ross, ni Queen. Por su interpretación de la canción fue de nuevo nominada al Grammy y por el videoclip se llevó el galardón. Y es que, en pleno auge de los vídeos de aeróbic de Jane Fonda y Raquel Welch, Olivia se cortó el pelo, se puso calentadores y un maillot de licra y animaba a un montón de señores con sobrepeso a pasarse "a lo físico", entrenando con ellos y acabando todos con cuerpos esculturales. Hoy se ve con una mezcla de ternura y vergüenza ajena curiosa.

En 1983 volvió a intentarlo en el cine en la película Tal para cual, que protagonizó de nuevo con su buen amigo John Travolta y que fue un auténtico fracaso pese a que la banda sonora se vendió muy bien. Por otro lado, en 1985, con su decimosegundo disco, Soul Kiss, empieza el declive de la artista, ya que no lograba encontrar su lugar en medio del palpitante espectro musical de mediados de los ochenta. En ese momento, nace su única hija fruto de su matrimonio con el bailarín Matt Lattanzi a quien había conocido durante el rodaje de Xanadú y su carrera se centra en los conciertos de grandes éxitos.

FENÓMENO SOLIDARIO

Pero en 1992 cambia su vida de verdad. Olivia Newton-John fue diagnosticada de cáncer de mama tras lo que se propuso dejar su vida artística en un segundo plano y visibilizar una enfermedad de la que siempre habló con total naturalidad, algo que en los 90 no hacían muchas figuras públicas. Sus conciertos benéficos para recaudar fondos marcaron su carrera a partir de ese momento hasta el punto de que en 2012 logró abrir el Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre (ONJCWC) en Melbourne .....

EN 2019 SUBASTÓ LA CHAQUETA Y LOS PANTALONES DE CUERO QUE LLEVÓ EN GREASE POR 400 000 DÓLARES

QUE DONÓ AL CENTRO OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN CONTRA EL CÁNCER

THANKS TO KAY

CHARTS

 4 SEPTEMBRE 1982 : ONJ est sur les routes américaines pour son PHYSICAL TOUR ... MCA sort un nouveau single HEART ATTACK en prémisse d'un GREATEST HITS ! 

HEART ATTACK fait son entrée dans les charts américains ... entre autre à la 67ème place du BILLBOARD HOT100 ! 

 

LA COUPURE ITALIENNE 

Il 26 settembre sarebbe il suo compleanno: scopriamo l’età di Olivia Newton John

Ripercorriamo i momenti più importanti della storia personale e professionale di una celebrità indimenticabile.

Le 26 septembre serait son anniversaire : découvrons l’âge d’Olivia Newton John

Nous retraçons les moments les plus importants de l’histoire personnelle et professionnelle d’une célébrité inoubliable

Olivia Newton John,  aurait aujourd'hui,  74 ans et se préparerait à souffler 75 bougies sur le gâteau d’anniversaire le 26 septembre. Malheureusement, elle est décédée l’année dernière, le 8 août 2022, à l’âge de 73 ans, des suites d’un cancer du sein contre lequel elle s’est longtemps battue, au cours de sa vie....

One year on from the death of Olivia Newton-John

... et toujours ce sentiment d'être orphelin  ... elle nous manque tellement, elle qui nous a "accompagné" durant toutes ces années ! 

 

MARIE CLAIRE en version WEB 

Remembering The Life Of Olivia Newton-John

One year after the death of a national treasure, we reflect on the life of Australia’s sweetheart who became a global superstar. - by Cameron Adams

After Olivia Newton-John died in August 2022, praise for the 73-year-old was universal and universally glowing. Throughout her 60 years in public life, encompassing everything from a mysteriously missing boyfriend to Stage 4 cancer, no-one ever had a bad word to say about ONJ. “Love and light” was not just what she’d write beside her signature, it was her life motto. She never veered from those wholesome, positive principles.

Remembering The Life Of Olivia Newton-John, One Year After Her Passing | Marie Claire Australia

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OLIVIA Newton-John

One year after the death of a national treasure, Cameron Adams reflects on the life of Australia’s sweetheart who became a global superstar

• Marie Claire Australia
• 20 Jul 2023

After Olivia NewtonJohn died in August 2022, praise for the 73-year-old was universal and universally glowing. Throughout her 60 years in public life, encompassing everything from a mysteriously missing boyfriend to Stage 4 cancer, no-one ever had a bad word to say about ONJ. “Love and light” was not just what she’d write beside her signature, it was her life motto. She never veered from those wholesome, positive principles.

No matter where you joined the ONJ journey – from Sandy in leather pants awkwardly attempting to smoke in Grease, to insisting on a tongue-incheek (and pro-gay) twist to the video for her most overtly sexual hit song “Physical” – Olivia was always herself. And her career became a blueprint for all Australian performers who followed.

She was born in England in 1948, and her grandfather was Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born, an associate of Albert Einstein’s and a Polish-born Jew who had to flee the Nazis. Olivia’s family immigrated to Australia by boat when she was five.

One of her first television roles was on The Go!! Show in 1964. There she met singer Pat Carroll (later Farrar), who would become her lifelong best friend. After winning a trip to Britain in a talent contest on Johnny O’Keefe’s TV show Sing, Sing, Sing, Olivia relocated to London at the end of the decade to pursue her musical career.

By the early ’70s she was scoring minor hits in the US and UK. She represented the UK in Eurovision in 1974 with “Long Live Love”, a song she’d quickly disown. ABBA won with “Waterloo”; Olivia came fourth.

Four years later, Olivia had become global superstar, while ABBA were still struggling for major success in America. After inviting the Swedish group onto her self-titled US TV special, they performed to some 30 million viewers, and the rest is history.

So how did a girl from Christ Church Grammar School in South Yarra go from struggling singer in England to star and kingmaker in the US, and indeed the world? What had happened in those intervening years?

First, she’d laid the groundwork with her 1973 single “Let Me Be There”, which went Top 10 on three US charts and earned her a Grammy. Then came her signature song, “I Honestly Love You”, which went to No. 1 in the US and Canada and was a hit around the world.

It was the start of a glorious wave of success. Olivia had five US No. 1 singles – her mates the Bee Gees were the only Australians to have more.

Olivia’s hits displayed her versatility, from her early country-era soft rock (“Have You Never Been Mellow”, “I Honestly Love You”) to the Grease duet “You’re the One That I Want” and the hyper pop of “Magic”.

Her delicate, emotion-filled voice could adapt to different genres, and she was always curious musically.

Her five American chart toppers were all written by Australians: from Peter Allen to Steve Kipner and her best friend Pat’s husband, John Farrar, who saw Olivia as his muse. 

Olivia had been encouraged by fellow Australian Helen Reddy to try to break into the American market. Reddy’s “I Am Woman” hit No. 1 in the US in December 1972. 

Less than two years later, Olivia hit the jackpot with “I Honestly Love You”.

Olivia paid it forward, constantly mentoring those who came after her. In Melbourne, sisters Kylie and Dannii Minogue had grown up singing Grease hits into their hairbrushes. Olivia would ultimately befriend both – Dannii even taking part with Olivia in a 21-day trek along the Great Wall of China in 2008.

Grease (1978) was of its time but also timeless – its influence never waning. Another young Australian girl who was channelling her own inner Sandy, Delta Goodrem, also became a recipient of ONJ’s hands-on mentoring. When Delta played her hero in the 2018 mini-series Hopelessly Devoted to You, Olivia personally approved the production. She did admit, however, that she didn’t care to watch all the highs and lows of her life play out again on screen.

Like Olivia, Delta also had a very public cancer diagnosis. That was when the two bonded and, like Olivia, Delta has stuck to the “when they go low, we go high” mantra. Olivia once said, “Being positive isn’t easy, but we always have that choice.”

Inspired by the all-round entertainers she had grown up with, Olivia was used to singing, acting and dancing. She’d combine all three for 1980’s Xanadu, a film where she got to dance with Hollywood legend Gene Kelly and sing with legendary band ELO on the iconic title track. While the film was panned, some now view it as a cult classic – and it did introduce her to actor and dancer Matt Lattanzi, who she’d marry in 1984.

Just as Grease had dominated her career in the late ’70s, “Physical” overshadowed everything Olivia did in the ’80s. Released in 1981, it was the decade’s highest-selling song in the US. Olivia and her Grease co-star John Travolta reunited for the 1983 film Two of a Kind. It bombed but spawned the hit song “Twist of Fate”, which decades later would end up in Stranger Things.

After the birth of daughter Chloe Lattanzi in 1986, Olivia’s career took a back seat. Chloe would later be dogged by both drug addiction and anorexia, which she and her mother attributed to the pressures of fame.

“I DON’T EVER WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO GO THROUGH WHAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH. THAT IS WHAT INSPIRES ME” – Olivia Newton-John

Olivia attempted a return to the charts at the end of the decade, but struggled against a new breed of pop stars. Switching gears, in 1989 she released Warm and Tender,a collection of lullabies for children with Chloe on the cover. It was as far from “Physical” as you could possibly get.

But her life was about to take an unexpected turn. In 1992, as she was gearing up for her first tour in 10 years, Olivia announced that she had breast cancer. She was 43, and the diagnosis cruelly came the same weekend as the death of her father, also to cancer.

As well as encouraging people to have regular breast examinations, Olivia drove a change of the language around cancer. She avoided terms like “fighting”, “battle” or “war”. She wasn’t “surviving” (“That sounds like someone clinging to a lifeboat,” she said at the time), she was “thriving”. Positivity was the key. “I believe your belief system is part of the healing,” she said.

According to reports, husband Matt had been “so supportive” following her diagnosis, but by 1995 they had split, amid rumours of infidelity on his part.

At the start of the 2000s, Olivia was once again dabbling in acting, playing a bisexual country singer in the rom-com film Sordid Lives, and later appearing in TV hit Glee. After being inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2002, she toured, including a Las Vegas residency from 2014 to 2016.

But in this new era of social media and tabloid journalism, some struggled to accept Olivia could really be so nice. In her 2019 autobiography she tackled the only real skeleton journalists hadn’t pinned her down on: the 2005 disappearance from a fishing charter of her on-off boyfriend of nine years, Patrick McDermott. Yes, she was as shocked as anyone when he went missing. No, she didn’t think he had faked his own death, as he cared for her too much. She also used the memoir to reveal that she had overcome a return bout of cancer in 2012.

In the last decade of her life, Olivia shifted her spotlight  onto the use of medicinal cannabis to treat pain. Her husband, John Easterling (they had married in 2008), was growing the plant legally on their Californian farm. 

No fan of the side effects of morphine, she found the herb helped her sleep and eased her suffering. “Kinder cures” is what she called them. In 2018 she said, “My dream is that it won’t be long before everyone has access to this medicine.”

While talking about drugs was offbrand, ONJ knew people would listen to her. She would gently explain to even the most conservative media outlets that “cannabis doesn’t kill you, it heals you. It’s only in the last 100 or so years that it was made out to be evil.” Aware her homeland was trailing the rest of the world on this front, Olivia went to Canberra to charm the politicians who could make change. She used her fame to open doors, wallets and minds.

Indeed, beyond music and film, Olivia’s cancer diagnosis added a more powerful aspect to her legacy: charity crusader. She still made albums – many filled with new age and healing songs – but she had monetised simply being Olivia Newton-John enough to fund her Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Melbourne. It had opened in 2012, after years of serious hustle to raise millions from governments and the public (more than 200,000 people made donations).

On her visits to Melbourne for her annual Wellness Walk, she’d often fit in charity events where she would sing hits from Grease and shake down the wealthy in the politest way possible, with a selfie and a smile.

In 2018 she ended up spending her 70th birthday in her own Wellness Centre. Her health had taken a turn while in Melbourne, so she checked herself in wearing a disguise, so as not to get special treatment. She called it her “undercover boss moment”.

As well as radiation and chemo, the centre offers tools used on her own journey: yoga, music therapy, exercise, meditation and other ways to heal.

“IT’S ONLY IN THE LAST 100 YEARS OR SO THAT CANNABIS WAS MADE OUT TO BE EVIL” – Olivia Newton-John

“I don’t ever want other people to go through what I have gone through,” she said. “So that is what inspires me.”

Olivia had already made peace with the fact she’d never tour again. She’d done it for decades and was tired of the travel. So she enjoyed taking her longest break from the road since Chloe’s early years.

In 2019 she was made a dame, an honour she was extremely proud of, up there with her four Grammys. Unfortunately, the Covid pandemic kept her from receiving the award from Queen Elizabeth in person.

ONJ’s final public stage appearance came in February 2020, singing at the Fire Fight Australia concert with her friend John Farnham. Fittingly, her final interview was for Farnham’s Finding the Voice documentary film. 

Though her health and voice were failing, she wanted to make sure the world knew he was her favourite singer.

One of her biggest goals was to remove the word “Cancer” from the centre that bears her name. It’s now a mission Chloe has adopted on her mother’s behalf.

“We all know we’re going to die one day. We don’t like to think about it, but one day we all will,” Olivia told me in 2019. “When you have a cancer diagnosis, it just makes it more obvious that it could happen. It makes you much more aware of the present and that every day is a gift, and that’s how I live.”

Merci à Kay pour ses scans 

LE CORNER PRESS DE KAY

L'édition australienne du MARIE CLAIRE ! Quelques tenues portée par ONJ devenues iconiques ... 

Un grand merci à kay 

 

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Olivia, on point

She was a style chameleon who sported leather one minute and lycra and leg warmers the next, inspiring a legion of followers to do the same. We look back on some of Olivia Newton-John’s most memorable and influential fashion moments

There’s an image of Olivia Newton-John that will forever be etched in pop culture history. She’s wrapped in black spandex, her bombshell perm skimming her bare shoulders, a belt cinching her tiny waist. It’s the final scene of Grease, when Sandy reveals her now-iconic transformation. But while Newton-John will be remembered for her on-screen looks, she was a style-setter behind the camera, too. An icon for more than five decades, her fashion captured and reflected the zeitgeist and moved seamlessly with the times, from bell-bottoms to ball gowns and even her own Australiana-inspired clothing range. There was an ease to the way she dressed – whether sultry, sophisticated or sweet – and it’s this grace that will be remembered long after the star’s passing in August. Vale, Olivia. 

 

@GOGREASE

Remembering the legendary Olivia Newton-John today on her birthday. 💕 pic.twitter.com/XaluUFHomY

— Grease (@GoGrease) September 26, 2022

INDIGO BIRTHDAY

L'album INDIGO - WOMEN OF SONG est sorti un 17 octobre 2004 sur le label FESTIVAL.. il y a déjà 15 ans ! Produit par le grand et regretté Phil Ramone, cet album rendait hommage à quelques femmes qui ont inspirées Olivia à différents niveaux ! De Dionne Warwick à Doris Day en passant par Karen Carpenter !
L'album atteindra la 15ème position dans le classement des meilleures ventes d'albums en Australie.

Dieu que j'ai aimé cet album ! Dommage qu'il n'y ait pas eu un "Indigo 2" ou quelques bonus ou versions alternatives dans les 2 autres éditions sortie en Angleterre puis de nouveau aux USA.

La pub pour l'Angleterre ..



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INSPIRATION


Ou le clipping de KAY !
Article sorti en Août dans le Marie-Claire australien.

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Grease en ciné-concert au Grand Rex de Paris en 2020


Le Yellow Socks Orchestra & rock band, dirigé par Nicolas Simon, interprétera en live la célèbre bande-originale de GREASE pendant la projection du film sur écran géant (VOSTFR), en parfaite synchronisation avec les images.

Après le ciné karaoké, place au ciné-concert de Grease ! Le Grand Rex accueille l’événement pour une seule représentation parisienne à vivre le mercredi 22 avril 2020. Pour l’occasion, venez (re)découvrir le film culte de Randal Kleiser sur grand écran avec une bande originale interprétée en live par un rock band et un orchestre symphonique de 60 musiciens pendant la projection du long-métrage.
« Summer Nights », « You're The One That I Want » ou encore « Greased Lightning », venez chanter haut et fort ces tubes planétaires extraits de la bande originale du film culte Grease lors d’un ciné-concert inédit.

Le mercredi 22 avril 2020, le Grand Rex de Paris propose en effet une projection unique de Grease dans une version ciné-concert avec la présence des 60 musiciens du Yellow Socks Orchestra & rock band, dirigé par Nicolas Simon.

Ensemble, ils joueront la fameuse bande originale du film signé Randal Kleiser pendant la projection. L’occasion inédite de retrouver Danny (John Travolta) et Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) dans cette incontournable fresque musicale, comme vous ne l'avez encore jamais vue ! Et pour rendre cette expérience encore plus festive, n'oubliez pas de venir habillés aux couleurs de votre gang préféré ; vous êtes plutôt Pink Ladies ou T-Birds ?

Paris ne sera pas la seule étape de ce ciné-concert puisque l’événement compte également envahir les villes de Lille, Nantes et Bordeaux. Pour assister à ce ciné-concert, rendez-vous le 10 octobre 2019 à 14h sur u-play.fr pour la mise en vente des places. Comptez entre 35 € et 95 € les places (placement numéroté).

Notez que le film sera projeté en version originale sous-titrée en français.

https://www.u-play.fr/grease-cineconcert

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Horaires
Le 22 avril 2020
À 20h30
Lieu
Le Grand Rex
1 Boulevard Poissonnière
75009 Paris 9

Tarifs
à partir de : 35 €
Site officiel
www.u-play.fr

Réservations
www.u-play.fr


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