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While she has continued to make music since, she has focused her life more on starting a family, establishing businesses, and activism, particularly health awareness, after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992.

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While she has continued to make music since, she has focused her life more on starting a family, establishing businesses, and activism, particularly health awareness, after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. She successfully fought it, but it came back and metastasized in 2017, and she passed away from it at age 73 on August 8, 2022.

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Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 - 8 August 2022) was an English-Australian singer and actor.

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Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 - 8 August 2022) was an English-Australian singer and actor.actress.



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* WorkoutFanservice: The video for "Physical" famously starts and ends with multiple handsome, muscular men working out.

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* WorkoutFanservice: The video for "Physical" famously starts and ends with multiple handsome, muscular men working out.out.
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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer and actor.

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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 (26 September 1948) is 1948 - 8 August 2022) was an English-Australian singer and actor.
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She began her career singing in clubs and on television, eventually earning three Grammys. It was her leading role in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' alongside Creator/JohnTravolta, however, that made her an international star. She attempted to channel ''Grease'''s success into her next film, ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'', but that didn't quite work out.

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She began her career singing in clubs and on television, eventually earning three Grammys. It was her leading role in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' alongside Creator/JohnTravolta, however, that made her an international star. She attempted to channel ''Grease'''s success into her next film, ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'', ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'', but that didn't quite work out.



* ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'' (1980) as Kira

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* ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'' ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' (1980) as Kira
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* InvincibleHero: Between 1973 and 1975, five consecutive Newton-John singles reached the top 10 on ''Billboard'' magazine's Pop and Country charts and went Gold, with two of them ("I Honestly Love You" and "Have You Never Been Mellow") topping the Hot 100 chart, and she had two No. 1 albums as well.
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* MsFanservice: The front and back covers of her 1985 album ''Soul Kiss'' feature ONJ in provocative poses. Especially the back cover, which shows her staring into a mirror topless with a loosely hanging towel covering her breasts, holding what appears to be a riding crop behind her.
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* MurderBallad: The narrator of "Banks of the Ohio" stabs her lover to death after he rejects her marriage proposal, then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regrets it afterward]].
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* ''Toomorrow'' (1970) as Olivia (with the band she was in at the time, Toomorrow)
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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer and actress.

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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer and actress.actor.
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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948 in Cambridge, England) is an English-Australian singer and actress.

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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948 in Cambridge, England) 1948) is an English-Australian singer and actress.
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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer and actress.

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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) 1948 in Cambridge, England) is an English-Australian singer and actress.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Her early songs like "Let Me Be There" are more traditional 1970s country-pop.

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* DrowningMySorrows: "Please Mr. Please," one of her early country-pop hits, is about a woman who goes out drinking with friends at a country bar to forget a lost love, and feels better until she hears someone play her and her lost love's "special song" on the jukebox.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Her early songs like "Let Me Be There" are more traditional 1970s country-pop. Her earliest hit single, "If Not for You," was a Music/BobDylan cover.



* TookALevelInBadass: Her starring role in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' heralded a shift away from her previous "good girl next door" image and breathy middle-of-the-road vocals to an edgier, more sensual persona and more full-throated singing style. Her first post-''Grease'' single, "A Little More Love," was borderline hard rock. Then in 1981, she released "Physical," which shattered the goody-goody facade for good.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Her starring role in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' heralded a shift away from her previous "good girl next door" image and breathy middle-of-the-road vocals to an edgier, more sensual persona and more full-throated singing style. Her first post-''Grease'' single, "A Little More Love," was borderline the closest to hard rock.rock she'd come in her career to that point. Then in 1981, she released "Physical," which shattered the goody-goody facade for good.

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* DoubleEntendre: The "Physical" music video played up the double meaning of "getting physical" in the lyrics, suggesting the song was about working out rather than sexual intercourse.



* GenreShift: Her early work was more country-pop. By TheEighties, the "country" part of that was gone entirely.

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* GenreShift: Her early work was more country-pop. had country and folk overtones. By TheEighties, the "country" part of that was gone entirely.entirely, and she'd also soon leave her previous adult contemporary/soft rock music base behind in favor of harder rock and dance pop tunes.
* InvincibleHero: Between 1973 and 1975, five consecutive Newton-John singles reached the top 10 on ''Billboard'' magazine's Pop and Country charts and went Gold, with two of them ("I Honestly Love You" and "Have You Never Been Mellow") topping the Hot 100 chart, and she had two No. 1 albums as well.
* TheMistress: Averted with "I Honestly Love You," as the narrator tells her extramarital paramour that although she "honestly loves him," she won't see him anymore.
* TookALevelInBadass: Her starring role in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' heralded a shift away from her previous "good girl next door" image and breathy middle-of-the-road vocals to an edgier, more sensual persona and more full-throated singing style. Her first post-''Grease'' single, "A Little More Love," was borderline hard rock. Then in 1981, she released "Physical," which shattered the goody-goody facade for good.
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Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer and actress.

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Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer and actress.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Her early songs like "Let Me Be There" are more traditional 1970s country-pop.
* GenreShift: Her early work was more country-pop. By TheEighties, the "country" part of that was gone entirely.
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* ''Toomorrow'' (1970)
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* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (2010) as herself
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* ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' (2015) as Orion
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* ''[[Film/TwoOfAKind1983 Two of a Kind]]'' (1983) as Debbie Wylder

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* ''[[Film/TwoOfAKind1983 Two of a Kind]]'' (1983) as Debbie WylderWylder
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* WorkoutFanservice: The video for "Physical" famously starts and ends with multiple handsome, muscular men working out.
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She began her career singing in clubs and on television, eventually earning three Grammys. It was her leading role in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' alongside Creator/JohnTravolta, however, that made her an international star. She attempted to channel ''Grease'''s success into her next film, ''Film/{{Xanadu}}, but that didn't quite work out.

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She began her career singing in clubs and on television, eventually earning three Grammys. It was her leading role in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' alongside Creator/JohnTravolta, however, that made her an international star. She attempted to channel ''Grease'''s success into her next film, ''Film/{{Xanadu}}, ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'', but that didn't quite work out.
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* ''[[Film/TwoOfAKind1983 Two of a Kind]] (1983) as Debbie Wylder

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!!Filmography

* ''Film/{{Grease}}'' (1978) as Sandy Olsson
* ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'' (1980) as Kira
* ''[[Film/TwoOfAKind1983 Two of a Kind]] (1983) as Debbie Wylder
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* ''Grease'' (1978)
* ''Xanadu'' (1980)
* ''Two of a Kind'' (1983)

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* ''Friends for Christmas'' (2016)

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* ''Friends for Christmas'' (2016)(2016)
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While she has continued to make music since, she has focused her life more on starting a family, establishing businesses, and activism, particularly health awareness, after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992.

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While she has continued to make music since, she has focused her life more on starting a family, establishing businesses, and activism, particularly health awareness, after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992.1992.

!!Discography

* ''If Not for You'' (1971)
* ''Olivia'' (1972)
* ''Let Me Be There'' (1973)
* ''Long Live Love'' (1974)
* ''If You Love Me, Let Me Know'' (1974)
* ''Have You Never Been Mellow'' (1975)
* ''Clearly Love'' (1975)
* ''Come on Over'' (1976)
* ''Don't Stop Believin''' (1976)
* ''Making a Good Thing Better'' (1977)
* ''Totally Hot'' (1978)
* ''Physical'' (1981)
* ''Soul Kiss'' (1985)
* ''The Rumour'' (1988)
* ''Warm and Tender'' (1989)
* ''Gaia: One Woman's Journey'' (1994)
* ''Back with a Heart'' (1998)
* '''Tis the Season'' (2000)
* ''(2)'' (2002)
* ''Indigo: Women of Song'' (2004)
* ''Stronger Than Before'' (2005)
* ''Grace and Gratitude'' (2006)
* ''Christmas Wish'' (2007)
* ''A Celebration in Song'' (2008)
* ''This Christmas'' (2012)
* ''Liv On'' (2016)
* ''Friends for Christmas'' (2016)
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Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer and actress.

She began her career singing in clubs and on television, eventually earning three Grammys. It was her leading role in ''Film/{{Grease}}'' alongside Creator/JohnTravolta, however, that made her an international star. She attempted to channel ''Grease'''s success into her next film, ''Film/{{Xanadu}}, but that didn't quite work out.

While she has continued to make music since, she has focused her life more on starting a family, establishing businesses, and activism, particularly health awareness, after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992.

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