Australian pop music icon Olivia Newton-John has handed away. The singer and actress, who starred in movies together with Grease and Xanadu, was 73.
Her loss of life was confirmed by Newton-John’s husband John Easterling, in a submit to the singer’s official social media accounts.
Newton-John handed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by household and buddies, Easterling stated.
“We ask that everybody please respect the household’s privateness throughout this very tough time,” the assertion stated.
Newton-John was born in 1948 in Cambridge, in the UK, however when she was six, her household emigrated to Melbourne, and as a young person emerged as a rising pop star.
After attaining worldwide fame, she was thought-about one in all Australia’s best cultural property.
Her musical profession included the chart-topper I Truthfully Love You, launched the identical yr as her 1974 efficiency on the Eurovision Track Contest, ending fourth behind the Swedish supergroup ABBA.
In 1978, nonetheless, she delivered a efficiency which might stay central to her fame for the remainder of her life: she performed Sandy Olsson reverse John Travolta as Danny Zuko within the movie adaptation of the Broadway smash hit Grease.
The movie, together with signature duets of Summer season Nights and You’re the One That I Need with Travolta, stays one of the vital profitable movies of all time, incomes greater than a 3rd of a billion {dollars} on the US field workplace.