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Olivia Newton-John

March 06, 2023

Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British and Australian singer, actress and activist.[3] She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included 15 top-ten singles, including 5 number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100[4] and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200: If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). Eleven of her singles (including two Platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two Platinum and four 2× Platinum) have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Dame

Olivia Newton-John

AC DBE
Newton-John at the premiere of A Few Best Men in Sydney, 2012
Born(1948-09-26)26 September 1948
Cambridge, England
Died8 August 2022(2022-08-08) (aged 73)
Santa Ynez, California, US
Citizenship
  • Australia (from 1981)
  • United Kingdom
Occupations
  • Singer
  • actress
  • activist
Years active1963–2022
Spouses
  • ​
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    (m. 1984; div. 1995)​
  • John Easterling
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    (m. 2008)​
ChildrenChloe Lattanzi
Relatives
Musical career
OriginMelbourne, Australia
Genres
Instrument(s)Vocals
Labels
Websiteolivianewton-john.com
Signature

In 1978, Newton-John starred in the musical film Grease, which was the highest-grossing musical film at the time and whose soundtrack remains one of the world's best-selling albums. It features two major hit duets with co-star John Travolta: "You're the One That I Want"—which is one of the best-selling singles of all time—and "Summer Nights". Her signature solo recordings include the Record of the Year Grammy winner "I Honestly Love You" (1974) and "Physical" (1981)—Billboard's highest-ranking Hot 100 single of the 1980s. Other defining hit singles include "If Not for You" and "Banks of the Ohio" (both 1971), "Let Me Be There" (1973), "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" (1974), "Have You Never Been Mellow" (1975), "Sam" (1977), "Hopelessly Devoted to You" (1978; also from Grease), "A Little More Love" (1978), "Twist of Fate" (1983) and, from the 1980 film Xanadu, "Magic" and "Xanadu" (with the Electric Light Orchestra).

With global sales of more than 100 million records, Newton-John established herself as one of the best-selling music artists of all time.[5] Newton-John, who battled breast cancer three times, was an advocate and sponsor for breast cancer research. She also was an activist for environmental and animal rights causes.

Early life

Olivia Newton-John was born on 26 September 1948[6] in Cambridge, England, to Brinley "Bryn" Newton-John (1914–1992) and Irene Helene (née Born; 1914–2003).[6] Her father was born in Wales to a middle-class family. Her mother was born in Germany and had come to the UK with her family in 1933 to escape the Nazi Regime.[7][8] Newton-John's maternal grandfather was German Jewish Nobel Prize–winning physicist Max Born;[9][10] Her maternal grandmother Hedwig was the daughter of German Jewish jurist Victor Ehrenberg, and of his Lutheran wife, Helene Agatha von Jhering. Through Helene Agatha, Olivia was a descendant of Protestant theologian Martin Luther.[11][12] Helene Agatha's own father, Newton-John's great-great-grandfather, was jurist Rudolf von Jhering. Olivia's uncle was pharmacologist Gustav Victor Rudolf Born. Through her Ehrenberg line, Newton-John was a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton.[9]

Newton-John's father was an MI5 officer[13] on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during World War II.[14][15] After the war, he became the headmaster of the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys and was in this post when Newton-John was born.[16]

Newton-John was the youngest of three children, following her brother Hugh (1939–2019), a medical doctor, and her sister Rona (1941–2013), an actress who was married to restaurateur Brian Goldsmith[17] and was later married to Newton-John's Grease co-star Jeff Conaway (from 1980 until their divorce in 1985). She also had a half-brother, Toby, and a half-sister, Sarah, both of whom were born of her father's second marriage. In early 1954, when Newton-John was five, her family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, on the SS Strathaird.[18] Her father worked as a professor of German and as the master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne.[19] Her family attended church while her father served as the head of the Presbyterian college.[20]

Newton-John attended Christ Church Grammar School in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra[21] and then the University High School in Parkville.[22]

Career

Career beginnings

Newton-John went to primary school with Daryl Braithwaite, who also followed a singing career.[23] At age 14, she formed Sol Four, a short-lived all-girl group, with three classmates, often performing at a coffee shop owned by her brother-in-law.[24]

Newton-John originally wanted to become a veterinarian, but then chose to focus on performance after doubting her ability to pass science exams.[25]

In 1964, Newton-John's acting talent was first recognised portraying "Lady Mary Lasenby" in her University High School's production of The Admirable Crichton as she became the Young Sun's Drama Award best schoolgirl actress runner-up.[26] She then became a regular on local Australian television shows, including Time for Terry and HSV-7's The Happy Show, where she performed as "Lovely Livvy".[27] She also appeared on The Go!! Show where she met her future duet partner, singer Pat Carroll, and her future music producer, John Farrar (Carroll and Farrar later married). In 1965 she entered and won a talent contest on the television program Sing, Sing, Sing hosted by 1960s Australian icon Johnny O'Keefe, performing the songs "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "Everything's Coming Up Roses". She was initially reluctant to use the prize she had won, a trip to Great Britain, but travelled there nearly a year later after her mother encouraged her to broaden her horizons.[4]

Newton-John recorded her first single, "Till You Say You'll Be Mine", in Britain for Decca Records in 1966.[4] While in Britain, Newton-John missed her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie,[28] with whom she had co-starred in an Australian telefilm, Funny Things Happen Down Under. She repeatedly booked trips back to Australia that her mother cancelled.[24]

Newton-John's outlook changed when Pat Carroll moved to the UK. The two formed a duo called "Pat and Olivia" and toured nightclubs in Europe. (In one incident, they were booked at Paul Raymond's Revue in Soho, London, and were unaware that it was a strip club until they began to perform onstage dressed primly in frilly high-collared dresses.)[29] During this period she and Carroll contributed backup vocals to recordings by a number of other artists, notably the song "Come In, You'll Get Pneumonia" by the Easybeats. After Carroll's visa expired, forcing her to return to Australia, Newton-John remained in Britain to pursue solo work until 1975.[29]

Newton-John was recruited for the group Toomorrow,[30] formed by American producer Don Kirshner. In 1970, the group starred in a "science fiction musical" film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album on RCA Records, both named after the group. That same year the group made two single recordings, "You're My Baby Now"/"Goin' Back" and "I Could Never Live Without Your Love"/"Roll Like a River". Neither track became a chart success; the project failed and the group disbanded.[31]

Early success

Newton-John released her first solo album, If Not for You (US No. 158 Pop), in 1971. (In the UK, the album was known as Olivia Newton-John.) The title track, written by Bob Dylan, was her first international hit (US No. 25 Pop, No. 1 Adult Contemporary/"AC").[32] Her follow-up single, "Banks of the Ohio", was a top 10 hit in the UK and Australia. She was voted Best British Female Vocalist two years in a row by the magazine Record Mirror. She made frequent appearances on Cliff Richard's weekly show It's Cliff Richard[33] and starred with him in the telefilm The Case.

In 1972, Newton-John's second UK album, Olivia, was released but never formally issued in the United States, where her career floundered after If Not for You. Subsequent singles, including "Banks of the Ohio" (No. 94 Pop, No. 34 AC) and remakes of George Harrison's "What Is Life" (No. 34 AC) and John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (No. 119 Pop), made minimal impact on the Hot 100. Her fortune changed with the release of "Let Me Be There" in 1973. The song reached the American top 10 on the Pop (No. 6), Country (No. 7),[34] and AC (No. 3) charts and earned her a Grammy for Best Country Female[33] and an Academy of Country Music award for Most Promising Female Vocalist.[32]

Her second American album, named Let Me Be There after the hit single, was her third in Britain, where the LP is known as Music Makes My Day. It is also called Let Me Be There in Australia;[35] however, the US and Canadian versions featured an alternate track list that mixed new cuts with selections from Olivia and also recycled six songs from If Not for You, which was going out of print.

 
From left to right: Dionne Warwick, Don Kirshner, Helen Reddy, and Newton-John in 1974

In 1974, Newton-John represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Long Live Love". The song was chosen for Newton-John by the British public out of six possible entries (Newton-John later admitted that she disliked the song).[36] Newton-John finished fourth at the contest, held in Brighton, behind the Swedish winning entry, "Waterloo" by ABBA. All six Eurovision contest song candidates—"Have Love, Will Travel", "Lovin' You Ain't Easy", "Long Live Love", "Someday", "Angel Eyes" and "Hands Across the Sea"—were recorded by Newton-John and included on her Long Live Love album, her first for the EMI Records label.[37]

The Long Live Love album was released in the US and Canada as If You Love Me, Let Me Know. All the Eurovision entries were dropped for different and more country-flavoured tunes intended to capitalise on the success of "Let Me Be There"; the North American offering used selections from Long Live Love, Olivia and Music Makes My Day, and only the title cut was new. If You Love Me, Let Me Know's title track was its first single and reached No. 5 Pop, No. 2 Country[4] (her best country position to date) and No. 2 AC.

The next single, "I Honestly Love You", became Newton-John's signature song. Written and composed by Jeff Barry and Peter Allen,[33] the ballad became her first Pop number-one (staying there for two weeks), second AC number-one (for three weeks) and third top 10 Country (No. 6) hit and earned Newton-John two more Grammys for Record of the Year[38] and Best Pop Vocal Performance – Female. In her 2018 autobiography, Don't Stop Believin', Newton-John describes "I Honestly Love You" as a song which is "so simple, with a meaning that was deeper than the ocean".[39] In many of her concert performances, Newton-John closed with this tune, and she further explains: "It’s such a special song, and I have some very profound memories of times that I’ve sung it, very intimate times, with special people in my life; and all through my life, it’s meant something different to me, and every time I sing it it has a different resonance".[40] The success of the singles "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" and "I Honestly Love You" helped the album reach No. 1 on both the pop (one week)[41] and country (eight weeks) albums charts.[citation needed] In the UK and Australia, "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" was featured on compilations titled First Impressions and Great Hits! First Impressions respectively.[42][43] In 1974, George Hamilton IV also presented to her the (BCMA) British Country Music Association Award for "Female Vocalist of the Year" in London, England.[44]

 
Newton-John in 1978

In the United States, Newton-John's success in country music sparked a debate among purists, who took issue with a foreigner singing country-flavoured pop music being classed with native Nashville artists.[30] In addition to her Grammy for "Let Me Be There", Newton-John was also named the Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year in 1974, making her the first British singer to have won the award.[45][46][47] Consequently, defeating more established Nashville-based nominees Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tanya Tucker, as well as Canadian artist Anne Murray.[33]

This protest, in part, led to the formation of the short-lived Association of Country Entertainers (ACE).[48] Newton-John was eventually supported by the country music community. Stella Parton, Dolly's sister, recorded "Ode to Olivia" and Newton-John recorded her 1976 album, Don't Stop Believin', in Nashville, Tennessee.[33]

Encouraged by expatriate Australian singer Helen Reddy, Newton-John left the UK and moved to the US. Newton-John topped the Pop (one week) and Country (six weeks) albums charts with her next album, Have You Never Been Mellow. For 45 years, Olivia held the Guinness World Record for the shortest gap (154 days) by a female between new Number 1 albums (If You Love Me, Let Me Know > Have You Never Been Mellow) on the US Billboard 200 album charts until Taylor Swift in 2020 (140 days with folklore > evermore).[49] The If You Love Me, Let Me Know album generated two singles – the John Rostill-penned title track (No. 1 Pop, No. 3 Country,[34] No. 1 AC)[50] and "Please Mr. Please" (No. 3 Pop, No. 5 Country, No. 1 AC).[50] Her pop career cooled with the release of her next album, Clearly Love. Her streak of five consecutive gold top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 ended when the album's first single, "Something Better to Do", stopped at No. 13 (also No. 19 Country and No. 1 AC). Her albums still achieved gold status, and she returned to the top ten of the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts again in 1978.[51]

Newton-John's singles continued to top the AC chart, where she amassed ten No. 1 singles, including a record seven consecutively:[52]

She provided a prominent, but uncredited, vocal on John Denver's "Fly Away" single, which was succeeded by her own single, "Let It Shine"/"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", at No. 1 on the AC chart. ("Fly Away" returned to No. 1 after the two-week reign of "Let It Shine".) Newton-John also continued to reach the Country top 10 where she tallied seven top 10 singles through 1976's "Come on Over" (No. 23 Pop, No. 5 Country,[34] No. 1 AC) and six consecutive (of a career nine total) top 10 albums through 1976's Don't Stop Believin' (No. 30 Pop, No. 7 Country).[34] She headlined her first US television special, A Special Olivia Newton-John, in November 1976.[33]

In 1977, the single "Sam", a mid-tempo waltz from Don't Stop Believin', returned her to the No. 1 spot on the AC (No. 40 Country) and also reached No. 20 Pop, her highest chart placement since "Something Better to Do". By mid-1977, Newton-John's pop, AC, and country success all suffered a slight blow. Her Making a Good Thing Better album (No. 34 Pop, No. 13 Country) was not certified gold, and its only single, the title track (No. 87 Pop, No. 20 AC), did not reach the AC top 10 or the Country chart. Later that year, Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits (No. 13 Pop, No. 7 Country) became her first platinum album.[53]

Newton-John was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1979 New Year Honours[54] and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to charity, cancer research, and entertainment.[55]

Lawsuit against MCA Records

In April 1975, Newton-John and MCA entered into an initial two-year, four-album deal in which she was expected to deliver two LPs a year for the record company. MCA also had the option of extending the contract for six more records and three more years; and if the artist did not deliver on time, MCA was allegedly allowed to lengthen the term of the contract.[56]

Per her new agreement with MCA, Newton-John's first three albums, beginning with Clearly Love, came out on schedule. Her fourth, Making a Good Thing Better, was late. This delay occurred around the same time she was working on Grease for RSO Records, and the postponement arguably gave MCA—which seemed to want to keep its hold on the performer—the right to exercise its option, extend its contract, and stop her from signing with another enterprise. She also did not deliver a "newly optioned" album.[57]

On 31 May 1978, Newton-John and MCA each filed breach-of-contract actions against the other. Newton-John sued for $10 million and claimed that MCA's failure to adequately promote and advertise her product freed her from their agreement. MCA's countersuit requested $1 million in damages and an injunction against Newton-John working with another music firm.[58]

Ultimately, Newton-John was forbidden from offering her recording services to another label until the five-year pact had run its course. The original covenant was not automatically extended, though she had not duly supplied the total sum of vinyls indicated in the contract.[59]

As a result of the lawsuit, record companies changed their contracts to be based on the number of albums recorded by a musician and not a specific number of years.[60]

Grease

 
Newton-John appearing with John Travolta in 1982

Newton-John's career soared after she starred in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease in 1978. She was offered the lead role of Sandy after meeting producer Allan Carr at a dinner party at Helen Reddy's home.[19] Disillusioned by her Toomorrow experience and concerned that she was too old to play a high school senior (she was 28 during the filming of Grease), Newton-John insisted on a screen test with the film's co-lead, John Travolta.[19] The film accounted for Newton-John's Australian accent by changing her original American character, Sandy Dumbrowski, into Sandy Olsson, an Australian who holidays in the United States and then moves there with her family. Newton-John previewed some of the film's soundtrack during her second American network television special, Olivia, featuring guests ABBA and Andy Gibb.[61]

Grease became the biggest box-office hit of 1978.[62] The soundtrack album spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton-John: the platinum "You're the One That I Want" (No. 1 Pop, No. 23 AC) with John Travolta, the gold "Hopelessly Devoted to You" (No. 3 Pop, No. 20 Country, No. 7 AC) and the gold "Summer Nights" (No. 5 Pop, No. 21 AC) with John Travolta and the film's cast. "Summer Nights" was from the original play written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey,[63] but the former two songs were written and composed by her long-time music producer, John Farrar, specifically for the film.[64]

Newton-John became the second woman (after Linda Ronstadt in 1977) to have two singles – "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Summer Nights" – in the Billboard top 5 simultaneously.[33] Newton-John's performance earned her a People's Choice Award for Favourite Film Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical and performed the Oscar-nominated "Hopelessly Devoted to You" at the 1979 Academy Awards.[65]

The film's popularity has endured. It was re-released for its 20th anniversary in 1998[66] and ranked as the second highest-grossing film behind Titanic in its opening weekend.[67] It was re-shown in April 2018 in over 700 American theatres for two days only.[68] The soundtrack is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time.[69] Following her death in August 2022, AMC announced that the picture would reappear in some of its cinemas over the weekend and that a portion of the proceeds would go to breast cancer research.[70]

Of the film's long-lasting likability, Newton-John contended: "I think the songs are timeless. They're fun and have great energy. The '50s-feel music has always been popular, and it's nostalgic for my generation; and then the young kids are rediscovering it every 10 years or so, it seems. People buying the album was a way for them to remember those feelings of watching the movie and feelings of that time period. I feel very grateful to be a part of this movie that's still loved so much."[64]

Lawsuit against UMG

In June 2006, Newton-John's company ON-J Productions Ltd filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) for $1 million in unpaid royalties from the Grease soundtrack.[71] In 2007, it was announced that she and UMG had reached a "conditional settlement".[72]

New image

In November 1978, she released her next studio album, Totally Hot, which became her first solo top 10 (No. 7) album since Have You Never Been Mellow. Dressed on the cover all in leather, Newton-John capitalised on her character's look that was introduced at the end of Grease; moreover, Totally Hot's singles – "A Little More Love" (No. 3 Pop, No. 94 Country, No. 4 AC), "Deeper Than the Night" (No. 11 Pop, No. 87 Country, No. 4 AC), and the title track (No. 52 Pop) – all demonstrated a more aggressive and uptempo sound for Newton-John.[73] Although the album de-emphasised the country sound, the LP still reached No. 4 on the Country Albums chart. Newton-John released the B-side, "Dancin' 'Round and 'Round", of the "Totally Hot" single to Country radio. The entry peaked at No. 29[74] (as well as No. 82 Pop and No. 25 AC), and it became her last charted solo Country airplay single.[75]

 
Newton-John meeting Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at a Sydney concert in 1980; with her there is also Roger Woodward and Paul Hogan (in shorts)

Newton-John began 1980 by releasing "I Can't Help It" (No. 12 Pop, No. 8 AC), a duet with Andy Gibb from his After Dark album, and by starring in her third television special, Hollywood Nights. Later that year, she appeared in her first film since Grease when she starred with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck in the musical fantasy Xanadu. Although the film was a critical failure, its soundtrack (No. 4 Pop) was certified double platinum and scored five top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.[76] Newton-John charted with "Magic" (No. 1 Pop, No. 1 AC), "Suddenly" with Cliff Richard (No. 20 Pop, No. 4 AC) and the title song "Xanadu" with the Electric Light Orchestra (No. 8 Pop, No. 2 AC). [ELO also charted with "I'm Alive" (No. 16 Pop, No. 48 AC) and "All Over the World" (No. 13 Pop, No. 46 AC).][77]

"Magic" was Newton-John's biggest pop hit to that point (four weeks at No. 1)[76] and still ranks as the biggest AC hit of her career (five weeks at No. 1). The film has since become a cult classic and the basis for a Broadway show that ran for more than 500 performances beginning in 2007 and was nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Musical.[78]

In 1981, Newton-John released her most successful studio album, the double platinum Physical, which strongly reinforced her image change by showcasing risqué, rock-oriented material. Newton-John explained: "I just wasn't in the mood for tender ballads. I wanted peppy stuff because that's how I'm feeling."[79] Of the title cut, Newton-John said: "Roger Davies was my manager at the time; he played it for me and I knew it was a very catchy song."[80] The title track, written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick, spent ten weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.[81] This matched the record at that time held by Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" for most weeks spent at No. 1 in the rock era. The single was certified platinum, and it ultimately ranked as the biggest song of the decade. (In 2008, Billboard ranked the song No. 6 among all songs that charted in the 50-year history of the Hot 100.)[82]

"Physical" earned Newton-John her only placement ever on the R&B Singles (No. 28) and Albums (No. 32) charts. The Physical album spawned two more singles, "Make a Move on Me" (No. 5 Pop, No. 6 AC)[83] and "Landslide" (No. 52 Pop).[84]

 
Newton-John at the opening of a Koala Blue store in 1988

The provocative lyrics of the "Physical" title track prompted two Utah radio stations to ban the single from their playlists.[85] (In 2010, Billboard magazine ranked this as the most popular single ever about sex.)[86] To counter its overtly suggestive tone, Newton-John filmed an exercise-themed video that turned the song into an aerobics anthem and made headbands a fashion accessory outside the gym.[80][87]

She helped pioneer the music video industry by recording a video album for Physical, featuring videos of all the album's tracks and three of her older hits. The video album earned her a fourth Grammy and was aired as an ABC prime-time special, Let's Get Physical,[81] becoming a top-10 Nielsen hit. Newton-John asserted: "Like everyone, I've got different sides of my personality. I've my dominant self, my need-to-be-dominated self, the sane Olivia and the crazy Olivia. Playing these different characters gave me a chance to show strange parts people haven't seen much."[79]

The success of Physical led to an international tour and the release of her second hits collection, the double-platinum Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (No. 16 Pop), which yielded two more top-40 singles: "Heart Attack" (No. 3 Pop)[83] and "Tied Up" (No. 38 Pop). The tour was filmed for her Olivia in Concert television special, which premiered on HBO in January 1983. The special was subsequently released to video, earning Newton-John another Grammy nomination.[88]

Newton-John reteamed with Travolta in 1983 for the critically and commercially unsuccessful movie Two of a Kind,[89] redeemed by its platinum soundtrack (No. 26 Pop) featuring "Twist of Fate" (No. 5 Pop),[83] "Livin' in Desperate Times" (No. 31 Pop), and a new duet with Travolta, "Take a Chance" (No. 3 AC). Newton-John released another video package, the Grammy-nominated Twist of Fate, featuring videos of her four songs on the Two of a Kind soundtrack and the two new singles from Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2.[90]

That same year Newton-John and Pat Farrar (formerly Pat Carroll) founded Koala Blue.[91][92] The store, originally for Australian imports, evolved into a chain of women's clothing boutiques.[91] The chain was initially successful, but it eventually declared bankruptcy and closed in 1992.[73][91] Newton-John and Farrar later licensed the brand name for a line of Australian wines.[93]

 
Newton-John at the 1989 Academy Awards

Newton-John, a supporter of Australian rules football Carlton, performed the Australian national anthem at the 1986 VFL Grand Final between Carlton and Hawthorn.[94]

Newton-John's music career cooled again with the release of her next studio album, the gold[95] Soul Kiss (No. 29 Pop),[96] in 1985.[97] The album's only charted single was the title track (No. 20 Pop, No. 20 AC).[97] The video album for Soul Kiss featured only five of the album's ten tracks (concept videos for the album's singles "Soul Kiss" and "Toughen Up" as well as performance videos of the tracks "Culture Shock", "Emotional Tangle" and "The Right Moment").[98]

After a nearly three-year hiatus following the birth of her daughter Chloe in January 1986, Newton-John resumed her recording career with the 1988 album The Rumour. The album was promoted by an HBO special, Olivia Down Under. Its first single, the title track, was written and produced by Elton John. Both the single (No. 62 Pop, No. 33 AC) and the album (No. 67 Pop) faltered commercially[99] as the nearly 40-year-old Newton-John seemed "old" when compared with the teen queens Debbie Gibson and Tiffany ruling the pop charts at that time. (The album was praised by critics as more mature, with Newton-John addressing topics such as AIDS ("Love and Let Live"), the environment and single-parent households.)[100]

The second single, "Can't We Talk It Over in Bed", did not chart, but was released in 1989 by Grayson Hugh, the song's arranger, and became a top-20 pop hit as "Talk It Over".[101]

Motherhood, cancer, and advocacy

In September 1989, Newton-John released her self-described "self-indulgent" album, Warm and Tender, which reunited her with producer John Farrar, absent from her previous LP, and also marked a return to a more wholesome image. Inspired by her daughter, who appeared on the cover, the album featured lullabies and love songs for parents and their children.[73] This album, the last one produced by Farrar, also failed to revive her recording career, as the disc reached only No. 124 Pop.[102]

Newton-John was primed for another comeback in 1992 when she compiled her third hits collection, Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971–1992, and planned her first tour since her Physical trek ten years earlier. Shortly after the album's release, Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer, forcing her to cancel all publicity for the album, including the tour. She received her diagnosis the same weekend her father died.[103] Newton-John recovered[104] and later became an advocate for breast cancer research and other health issues. She was a product spokesperson for the Liv-Kit, a breast self-examination product. She was also partial owner of the Gaia Retreat and Spa in Byron Bay.[105]

Newton-John's advocacy for health issues was presaged by her prior involvement with many humanitarian causes. Newton-John cancelled a 1978 concert tour of Japan to protest the slaughter of dolphins caught in tuna fishing nets.[106] She subsequently rescheduled the tour when the Japanese government assured her that the practice was being curbed.[107] Her concern for these "beautifully evolved creatures" (as she called them in the Warm and Tender liner notes) is also expressed in the 1981 self-penned piece, "The Promise (the Dolphin Song)", described as "one of the most tender, heartfelt vocals of the singer's career."[107] Newton-John said that "The Promise" (from Physical) was inspired by (and even channelled by) dolphins she met at Sea Life Park in Hawaii and attested: "It was strange. The morning after I was in the pools, I woke up and the words and melody were in my head. I think it was a gift from them."[79]

She was a performer on the 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert for the UN's International Year of the Child televised worldwide. During the concert, artists performed songs for which they donated their royalties, some in perpetuity, to benefit the cause. She was appointed a Goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Environment Programme.[108]

In 1991, she became the National Spokesperson for the Colette Chuda Environmental Fund/CHEC (Children's Health Environmental Coalition)[109] following the death from Wilms' tumour of five-year-old Colette Chuda, daughter of Newton-John's friend Nancy Chuda.[110]

Newton-John's cancer diagnosis also affected the type of music she recorded. In 1994, she released Gaia: One Woman's Journey, which chronicled her ordeal. Co-produced by Newton-John for ONJ Productions, Gaia was originally issued by Festival in Australia but also distributed by various independent labels in Japan and Europe. In 2002, there was an American distribution by Hip-O Records, and a subsequent re-release in 2012 by Green Hill featured an alternative cover photo.[111][112] Gaia was the first album on which Newton-John wrote all the music and lyrics herself, and this endeavour encouraged her to become more active as a songwriter thereafter. The single "No Matter What You Do" entered the Australian top 40, and the second single, the environmentally themed "Don't Cut Me Down", was also used in the film It's My Party. The Latin-fuelled "Not Gonna Give into It" eventually became heavily showcased in concert performance; "The Way of Love" was featured in the telefilm A Christmas Romance,[113] and "Trust Yourself" was incorporated into both the TV-movie The Wilde Girls[114] and the theatrical flick Sordid Lives.[115]

Newton-John was listed as president of the Isle of Man Basking shark Society between 1998 and 2005.[116]

In 2005, she released Stronger Than Before, sold exclusively in the United States by Hallmark. This was her second exclusive album for Hallmark Cards after her successful first Christmas album Tis the Season with Vince Gill five years earlier. Proceeds from the album's sales benefited breast cancer research. The album featured the song "Phenomenal Woman" based on the poem by Maya Angelou that featured guest vocals from Diahann Carroll, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Delta Goodrem, Amy Holland, Patti LaBelle and Mindy Smith – all survivors of or affected by cancer.[117]

The following year, Newton-John released a healing CD, Grace and Gratitude.[118] The album was sold exclusively by Walgreens,[119] also to benefit various charities including Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization. The CD was the "heart" of their Body — Heart — Spirit Wellness Collection, which also featured a re-branded Liv-Kit and breast-health dietary supplements. She re-recorded some tracks from Grace and Gratitude in 2010 and re-released the album as Grace and Gratitude Renewed on the Green Hill music label. The Renewed CD includes a new track, "Help Me to Heal", not featured on the original album.[120]

In 2008, she raised funds to help build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia. She led a three-week, 228 km walk along the Great Wall of China during April, joined by various celebrities and cancer survivors throughout her trek. The walk symbolised the steps cancer patients must take on their road to recovery.[121]

She released a companion CD, A Celebration in Song, the following month in Australia and later worldwide,[122] featuring new and previously recorded duets by "Olivia Newton-John & Friends", including Jann Arden, Jimmy Barnes, John Farrar, Barry Gibb, Delta Goodrem, Sun Ho, Richard Marx, Cliff Richard, Melinda Schneider, Amy Sky, and Keith Urban.[123] In 2016, Newton-John re-teamed with Amy Sky and Beth Nielsen Chapman to form a trio for the album Liv On.[124]

Newton-John was featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docu-drama, 1 a Minute, released in October 2010.[125] The documentary was made by actress Namrata Singh Gujral and featured other celebrities who had survived breast cancer or who were affected by the disease. During the same month, Bluewater Productions released a comic book featuring Newton-John to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month.[126]

Later career

Newton-John continued to record and perform pop-oriented music as well. In 1998, she returned to Nashville to record Back with a Heart (No. 59 Pop).[66] The album returned her to the top 10 (No. 9) on the Country Albums chart. Its first single was a re-recording of "I Honestly Love You" produced by David Foster and featuring Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds on background vocals[66] that charted on the Pop (No. 67) and AC (No. 18) charts. Country radio dismissed the song, though it did peak at No. 16 on the Country Sales chart. The album track, "Love Is a Gift", won Newton-John a 1999 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song after being featured on the daytime serial, As the World Turns.[127]

 
Newton-John and Stephan Elliott at the premiere of A Few Best Men in Sydney, 2012

During October–December 1998, Newton-John, John Farnham and Anthony Warlow performed in The Main Event Tour.[128][129] The album Highlights from The Main Event peaked at No. 1 in December,[130] was certified 4× platinum,[131] won an ARIA Award for Highest Selling Australian CD at the 1999 Awards[132] and was also nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album.[133] For the 2000 Summer Olympics, Newton-John and Farnham re-teamed to perform "Dare to Dream" during the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony.[134] Broadcast of the ceremony was viewed by an estimated 3.5 billion people around the world.[135]

In December 1998, following a hiatus of about 16 years, Newton-John also resumed touring by herself and in 2000 released a solo CD, One Woman's Live Journey, her first live album since 1981's Love Performance.[136][137]

Newton-John's subsequent albums were released primarily in Australia. In 2002, she released (2), a duets album featuring mostly Australian artists (Tina Arena, Darren Hayes, Jimmy Little, Johnny O'Keefe, Billy Thorpe and Keith Urban), as well as a "duet" with the deceased Peter Allen. In addition, (2) offered a hidden 12th track, a samba version of "Physical" which Newton-John later performed occasionally in concert instead of the more rock-style original. The album's 2004 Japanese release includes the bonus track "Let It Be Me", a duet with Cliff Richard with whom she had previously been coupled on "Suddenly" and Songs from Heathcliff.[138][139]

In 2002, Newton-John was also inducted into Australia's ARIA Hall of Fame.[140]

Produced by Phil Ramone and recorded at the Indigo Recording Studios in Malibu for ONJ Productions, Indigo: Women of Song was released in October 2004 in Australia. The tribute album featured Newton-John covering songs by artists such as Joan Baez, the Carpenters, Doris Day, Nina Simone, Minnie Riperton. She dedicated the album to her mother, who had died the previous year of breast cancer.[141][142] Indigo was subsequently released in the UK in April 2005 and in Japan in March 2006. A rebranded and resequenced version called Portraits: A Tribute to Great Women of Song was eventually issued in the United States in 2011.

Newton-John also released several Christmas albums. In 2000, she teamed with Vince Gill and the London Symphony Orchestra for 'Tis the Season sold exclusively through Hallmark. The following year, she released The Christmas Collection, which compiled seasonal music previously recorded for her Hallmark Christmas album, her appearance on Kenny Loggins' 1999 TNN Christmas special and her contributions to the Mother and Child and Spirit of Christmas multi-artist collections. (Green Hill Records re-released this album with different artwork in 2010.) In 2007, she re-teamed with her Grace and Gratitude producer, Amy Sky, for Christmas Wish (No. 187 Pop) which was sold exclusively by Target in its first year of release.[143]

Newton-John acted occasionally since Two of a Kind. She appeared in a supporting role in the 1996 AIDS drama, It's My Party. In 2000, she appeared in a dramatically different role as Bitsy Mae Harling, a bisexual former-convict country singer, in Del Shores' Sordid Lives.[134] Newton-John reprised her role for Sordid Lives: The Series which aired one season on the LOGO television network. The series featured five original songs written and composed by Newton-John specifically for the show.[144] In 2010, Newton-John starred in the film Score: A Hockey Musical, released in Canada.[145] She portrayed Hope Gordon, the mother of a home-schooled hockey prodigy. The film opened the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.[146]

Newton-John's television work included starring in two Christmas films, A Mom for Christmas (1990)[147] and A Christmas Romance (1994) – both top 10 Nielsen hits. Her daughter, Chloe, starred as one of her children in both A Christmas Romance and in the 2001 Showtime film The Wilde Girls. Newton-John guest-starred as herself in the sitcoms Ned and Stacey, Murphy Brown and Bette and also made two appearances as herself on Glee.[148]

 
Newton-John, performing at the Sydney State Theatre in September 2008

In 2008, Newton-John took part in the BBC Wales program Coming Home about her Welsh family history. Also, in 2008, Newton-John joined Anne Murray on Murray's last album, titled Duets: Friends & Legends. She sang Gordon Lightfoot's hit "Cotton Jenny" with Murray.[149]

For her first Glee appearance, Newton-John recreated her "Physical" video with series regular Jane Lynch.[150][151] The performance was released as a digital single which peaked at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 2010.[152] In Australia, Newton-John hosted the animal and nature series Wild Life[153][154] and guest-starred as Joanna on two episodes of the Australian series The Man From Snowy River.[155][156][157]

Newton-John released another concert DVD, Olivia Newton-John and the Sydney Symphony: Live at the Sydney Opera House and a companion CD, her third live album titled Olivia's Live Hits.[158][159] An edited version of the DVD premiered on PBS station, WLIW (Garden City, New York), in October 2007.[160]

In January 2011, Newton-John began filming the comedy A Few Best Men in Australia with director Stephan Elliott, in the role of mother of the bride. The groom is played by Xavier Samuel.[161]

2012–2022

Newton-John was actively touring and doing concerts from 2012 to 2017 and also performed a handful of shows in 2018.[162][163] Her dates for A Summer Night with Olivia Newton-John even included stops in Asia and Canada and culminated in a rare concert appearance in London in 2013. Her March 2013 UK trek also encompassed Bournemouth, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester and Cardiff, Wales.[164]

In November 2012, Newton-John teamed with John Travolta to make the charity album This Christmas, in support of The Olivia Newton-John Cancer & Wellness Centre and the Jett Travolta Foundation. Artists featured on the album include: Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Chick Corea, Kenny G, Tony Bennett, Cliff Richard and the Count Basie Orchestra.[165]

A 2013 residency at the Flamingo Las Vegas was postponed due to the May 2013 death of her elder sister, Rona (aged 72), from a brain tumour. Newton-John resumed performing, doing 45 shows beginning in April 2014.[166][167][168][169] Along with the Vegas shows, Newton-John released a new EP in April 2014 entitled Hotel Sessions, which consisted of seven tracks of unreleased demos that were recorded between 2002 and 2011 with her nephew Brett Goldsmith. The CD contains a cover of "Broken Wings" as well as the popular-with-fans original "Best of My Love", which had leaked on the internet many years prior.[170]

Her Vegas stay was eventually extended beyond August 2014,[171][172][173] and her Summer Nights residency finished in December 2016 after 175 shows.[174] Her successful three-year run even prompted a fourth live album, Summer Nights: Live in Las Vegas (2015). In 2015, Newton-John also reunited with John Farnham for a joint venture called Two Strong Hearts Live.[175][176]

 
Newton-John performing at Viña 2017

In 2015, Newton-John was a guest judge on an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race. That same year, she scored her first number-one single on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart with "You Have to Believe" with daughter Chloe and producer Dave Audé. The song was a re-imagining of her 1980 single "Magic", which she noted was to celebrate both the 35th anniversary of Xanadu and as a dedication to her daughter. About the latter, Newton-John stated: "I met Chloe's dad on the set of Xanadu; so, without that film, Chloe wouldn't be here. She was the real 'magic' that came out of that film!"[177] The song became the first mother-daughter single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart.[178]

In 2015, Newton-John was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame.[179]

In 2017, she collaborated with two North American singer-songwriters, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Amy Sky, on a joint concert tour entitled Liv On and produced a CD by the same name.[180]

On 7 May 2019, Newton-John's elder brother Hugh, a doctor, died at age 80;[181] his death left Newton-John as the sole surviving sibling.

In recognition for "her work as an entertainer and philanthropist", she was bestowed Australia's highest honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia, in June 2019.[182]

In December 2019, Newton-John and Travolta also re-teamed for three live Meet 'n' Grease[183] sing-along events in the Florida cities of Tampa, West Palm Beach and Jacksonville.[184] Subsequently, a sing-along re-broadcast of Grease aired on CBS Television.[185]

In February 2020, Newton-John appeared at the Fire Fight Australia charity event. This was her final public performance.[186]

In January 2021, Newton-John released her final single, "Window in the Wall", a duet about unity which she recorded with her daughter Chloe Lattanzi. The music video for the song peaked at No. 1 on the iTunes pop music video chart the week of its release.[187][188]

In the media

On 2 November 2019, Julien's Auctions auctioned hundreds of memorabilia items from Newton-John's career. The sale raised $2.4 million. Newton-John's Grease outfit garnered $405,700; her pants and jacket were purchased separately by two different billionaires. Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, bought Newton-John's black skintight pants from Grease for $162,000.[189] The anonymous buyer who acquired her famous Grease leather jacket for $243,200 (£185,000) returned the item to her and said: "It should not sit in a billionaire's closet for country-club bragging rights [...] The odds of beating a recurring cancer using the newest emerging therapies is a thousandfold greater than someone appearing out of the blue, buying your most famous and cherished icon, and returning it to you." All proceeds were donated to her cancer and wellness research centre in Australia.[190][191][192]

Musical legacy

Newton-John's first boyfriend, Ian Turpie, once said of her early appearances: "In those days she had a small voice, but it was very pure. She could sing prettily in tune....The improvement in her singing since she went to England has been remarkable. She told me Shirley Bassey has been a big influence on her. After hearing Bassey, she worked at developing her head voice to sound like a chest voice, the way Bassey uses hers. The power she's developed is amazing."[28]

Michael Dwyer of the Sydney Morning Herald maintains that following Newton-John's career was like watching "our slightly older and braver sister growing up in public" and her passing "feels today like a lost member of the family".[193] Rachel Syme of The New Yorker also suggests that her familial, down-to-earth demeanor and humanity may have even superseded her singing accomplishments: "Her most lasting legacy might be as the rare celebrity who was almost universally well liked, and thought of as an essentially kind and warmhearted person".[194]

Her musical abilities on their own merits were also impressive. In her 1982 Olivia in Concert performance of Dolly Parton's "Jolene," Newton-John showcases a down-falling note range covering three octaves. (Much later, Newton-John and Parton recorded a duet of "Jolene," which was not formally released until after Newton-John's death.)[195] In her memoir, Newton-John describes herself as "not a power singer but more of an interpretive one";[196] and author Lauren O'Neill concurs: "She sang with clarity and precision, her high notes bright and open like a window on a summer morning, but her voice was never clinical – a sultry purr, euphoric cry or breathy gasp seemed always available to her....Her vocal [on "Hopelessly Devoted to You" from Grease] is clean and soaring, but to hear it is to be right down in the dirt with Sandy too; to feel, and perhaps even identify with, her total frustration with herself. As she slides between notes while singing 'I'm out of my head,' she shows us her emotional freefall as well as telling us about it."[197]

Long before and after the career summit of Grease, Newton-John proved herself to be a fairly versatile performer. Maura Johnston of Vulture assesses: "Newton-John was a regular chart-topper...throughout the ’70s, her lithe soprano adapting well to the soft pop sound" of the era with "AM Gold staples and tracks from the folk and country world...As it turned out, Newton-John’s voice was pretty well suited to the spiky dance pop that would become popular in the early 1980s" too.[39] However, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the Los Angeles Times offers a counterpoint on her career decline in the mid-1980s: "Hardness never was Newton-John's comfort zone, though, and the 1980s were a much harder decade than the 1970s. The inherent warmth of 1970s studio sessions gave way to the cold, synthesized gleam of the 1980s, a sterile sound that suited her well only once: the candied faux-new wave of 'Twist of Fate'", produced by David Foster.[198] Johnston further maintains: "Her pop heyday transcended any attempts to musically pigeonhole her"; and by the time she stopped having many new hits, "her musical legacy ... had been pretty well solidified."[39]

Newton-John's work has inspired many other female vocalists, including Juliana Hatfield, Lisa Loeb, Kylie Minogue, Delta Goodrem, Natalie Maines and Alanis Morissette.[199][200][201][202][203][204] Pink staged a commemorative Newton-John cover during the 2022 American Music Awards.[205] At the 2022 ARIA Music Awards, a special tribute in her honour featured performances by Natalie Imbruglia, Peking Duk and Tones and I.[206]

Personal life

Relationships

 
Newton-John with her first husband Matt Lattanzi at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989
 
Newton-John with her second husband John Easterling in 2010

In the mid-1960s, Newton-John dated Australian actor and singer Ian Turpie, her co-star in the 1965 musical film Funny Things Happen Down Under.[24][207] They met in late 1962 when Turpie attended the coffee shop where Newton-John's group Sol Four performed.[28] The relationship continued until she returned to England in 1966.[28]

In 1968, Newton-John was engaged to but never married Bruce Welch, one of her early producers and co-writer of her hit "Please Mr. Please".[208] In 1972, Newton-John ended her relationship with Welch, who subsequently attempted suicide.[208]

In 1973, while vacationing on the French Riviera, Newton-John met British businessman Lee Kramer, who became both her new boyfriend and manager.[209] Newton-John lived with Kramer on and off and they stayed a couple until 1979; she called their turbulent pairing "one long breakup".[79][210] Kramer subsequently returned to England and married. He also managed vocalist Krishna Das. Kramer died in 2017.[211]

Newton-John married her long-time partner, actor Matt Lattanzi, in December 1984.[212] The couple had met in 1980 while filming Xanadu. They divorced in 1995. According to People magazine, people close to the couple cited the disparity between her spiritual interests and his more earthly ones as a key factor in the dissolution. The couple remained friends. Their daughter, Chloe Rose, was born in January 1986.[134]

Newton-John met gaffer/cameraman Patrick McDermott a year after her 1995 divorce from Matt Lattanzi. The couple dated on and off for nine years. McDermott allegedly disappeared following a 2005 fishing trip off the Californian coast.[213] Newton-John was in Australia at her Gaia Retreat & Spa at the time of McDermott's disappearance.[214] A United States Coast Guard investigation, based on then-available evidence and released in 2008, "suggest[ed] McDermott was lost at sea",[215][216] with a friend telling investigators McDermott had appeared sad though not despondent after their breakup.[217] In April 2010, a private investigator, hired by an American television program, claimed that McDermott is alive and had faked his death for a life insurance payout – but did not provide proof beyond their own statement that they were confident.[218] Unsubstantiated claims have been made, particularly in Australian tabloids, that McDermott is living in Mexico.[219]

In the mid-1990s, Newton-John met John Easterling, founder and president of the Amazon Herb Company. At the time, they were both married to other people. Later, they started dating and eventually married in an Incan spiritual ceremony in Peru on 21 June 2008, followed by a legal ceremony nine days later (30 June 2008) on Jupiter Island, Florida.[220]

Residences and citizenship

Although principally raised in Australia, she remained a British subject through her childhood and did not formally become an Australian citizen until 1981 with an application that was expedited by the then prime minister, Malcolm Fraser.[221]

After relocating from Britain to America in 1974, Newton-John set up residence in Malibu, California, where for 40 years she owned several properties, including a horse ranch and beach houses.[222][223]

In June 2009, Newton-John and her second husband, John Easterling, purchased a new $4.1 million home in Jupiter Inlet, Florida.[224] In 2013, a contractor named Christopher Pariseleti committed suicide on the estate, which at the time was up for sale.[225] Following the death on the premises, the property lingered on and off the market for two years but was eventually sold in 2015 to a Swedish advertising executive for $5.1 million.[226]

In 2015, the couple purchased a $5.3 million, 12-acre horse ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley outside Santa Barbara. It was offered for sale in 2019[227] but not sold, and she was living there at the time of her death.

In 2019, Newton-John sold her 187-acre Australian farm, which she had owned for nearly 40 years and is located near Byron Bay in New South Wales.[228] The Dalwood estate sold for $4.6 million; in 1980, Newton-John had paid $622,000 for the property, which had additional land adjoined in both 1983 and in 2002.[229]

When asked in 2017 whether she considered herself to be a British, Australian or American citizen, she said, "I am still Australian."[230] In December 2019, she expressed: "As a girl born in Cambridge [England], I am very proud of my British ancestry and so appreciative to be recognized in this way by the United Kingdom."[231][232][233][234]

Illness and death

In May 2017, it was announced that Newton-John's breast cancer had returned and metastasised to her lower back.[235] Her back pains had initially been diagnosed as sciatica.[236] She subsequently revealed this was actually her third bout with breast cancer, as she had a recurrence of the disease in 2013 in addition to her initial 1992 diagnosis.[237] With the 2017 recurrence, the cancer had spread to her bones and progressed to stage IV.[238] Newton-John experienced significant pain from the metastatic bone lesions and had spoken of using cannabis oil to ease her pain. She was an advocate for the use of medical cannabis;[239] her daughter Chloe owns a cannabis farm in Oregon.[237]

Newton-John died on 8 August 2022 at age 73 at her home in the Santa Ynez Valley of California.[240][241] Tributes were paid by John Travolta, Barbra Streisand, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and many other celebrities.[242][243] As a mark of respect, Melbourne and Sydney lit up many of their landmarks.[244]

In September 2022, Newton-John's family held a "small and very private" memorial service in California for the singer, who asked to be cremated and have her ashes scattered in Byron Bay, on her Santa Ynez ranch and "in other places that I love".[245][246][247]

The State of Victoria offered Newton-John's family a state funeral, which her niece Tottie Goldsmith accepted.[248][249] Newton-John's Australian memorial service, hosted by David Campbell, was held on 26 February 2023 at Hamer Hall[250] and included eulogies from her husband and daughter; a testimonial to her strength of character, optimism and magnanimity by television personality Richard Wilkins; montages of her career, family life and wellness centre; a medley of her hits performed by Delta Goodrem, and pre-recorded video tributes from Elton John, Mariah Carey, Barry Gibb and Nicole Kidman.[251]

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards and honours received by Olivia Newton-John

Discography

Main articles: Olivia Newton-John albums discography, Olivia Newton-John singles discography, and Olivia Newton-John videography

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1965 Funny Things Happen Down Under Olivia [302]
1970 Toomorrow Liv [303]
1972 The Case Olivia Television film
1978 Grease Sandy Olsson [304]
1980 Xanadu Kira [304]
1983 Two of a Kind Debbie Wylder [304]
1988 She's Having a Baby Herself Uncredited[305]
1990 A Mom for Christmas Amy Miller Television film[304]
1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare Herself Documentary[304]
1994 A Christmas Romance Julia Stonecypher Television film[304]
1996 It's My Party Lina Bingham [306]
2000 Sordid Lives Bitsy Mae Harling [304]
2001 The Wilde Girls Jasmine Wilde Television film[304]
2010 1 a Minute Herself [307]
2010 Score: A Hockey Musical Hope Gordon [304]
2011 A Few Best Men Barbara Ramme [304]
2017 Sharknado 5: Global Swarming Orion Television film[304]
2020 The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee Olivia [304]

Television

Year Title Performance Notes
1963 New Faces Herself - Contestant Australian TV series
1963 The Kevin Dennis Auditions Herself Australian TV series
1964 Sunnyside Up Herself Australian TV series
1964 Teen Scene Herself Australian TV series
1964; 1965 Sing, Sing, Sing Herself Australian TV series
1964 The Kevin Dennis Show Herself Australian TV series
1964 Teentime Ten Herself Australian TV series
1964–1965 The Happy Show Herself - Co-host:Lovely Livvy Australian TV series
1965 Boomeride Herself sings "When I Grow Up", "Crawl Baby, Crawl" Australian TV series
1965–1966 The Go!! Show Herself Australian TV series, 16 episodes
1965 Kommotion Herself Australian TV series
1965; 1966 Time for Terry Herself Australian TV series
1966 Dick Emery Show Herself BBC TV series UK
1967 It's That Time Herself Australian TV series
1967 Pat And Olivia Herself & Pat Carroll Australian TV special
1967 News Conference Herself Australian TV series
1967 The Young Entertainers Herself Australian TV series
1968 Bandstand Herself sings "Here, There And Everywhere" / "Today I Can't Do Without You Today" with Pat Carroll Australian TV series
1969 ABC News Report Herself & Pat Carroll Australian TV series
1970 The Cliff Richard Show Herself TV series UK, 1 episode
1971;1972 disco Herself sings "If Not For You" / "Banks Of The Ohio" TV series GERMANY, 2 episodes
1971 Grand Amphi Herself sings "Love Song" TV series FRANCE, 1 episode
1971 The Golden Shot Herself TV series UK, 1 episode
1971 Getaway With Cliff Herself TV special UK
1971 Lift Off with Ayshea Herself TV series UK, 1 episode
1971 GTK Herself TV series Australia, 1 episode
1971 15 Years Of Channel Nine Herself sings "If Not For You" / "Banks Of The Ohio" TV special Australia
1972 Top of the Pops Herself sings "What Is Life" TV series UK, 2 episodes
1972 The Case Herself BBC TV film with Cliff Richard & Tim Brooke-Taylor[308][309][310]
1972 Sacha's In Town Herself TV series UK, 2 episodes
1972 The Dean Martin Show Herself sings "If" / "Just A Little Lovin'/ "True Love" with Dean Martin TV series US, 1 episode
1972 The Harry Secombe Show Herself sings "Take Me Home, Country Roads TV series US, 1 episode
1972 Top of the Pops Herself sings "Take Me Home, Country Roads" TV series UK, 1 episode
1972 The Reg Varney Revue Herself sings
1974 Eurovision Song Contest Herself United Kingdom Entry: 4th Place[311][312]
1976 A Special Olivia Newton-John Herself ABC special[313][314]
1977 Only Olivia Herself BBC special[315][316]
1978 Olivia Herself ABC special (Olivia! Guests Abba and Andy Gibb)[317][318][319][320]
1980 Hollywood Nights Herself ABC special[321][322][323]
1982 Let's Get Physical Herself ABC special[324][325]
Saturday Night Live Herself – Host Also musical guest[304]
Olivia in Concert Herself HBO special[326][327]
Olivia Herself Australian TV special
1988 Olivia Down Under Herself HBO special[328]
1990 Timeless Tales from Hallmark Herself – Host 6 episodes[329][330]
1995 The Man from Snowy River Joanna Walker Recurring role (3 episodes)[331][332][333]
Ned and Stacey Herself Episode: "Reality Check"[334][335][336]
Is This Your Life? Herself Extended interview with Andrew Neil on Channel 4 in the UK[337]
1997 Tracey Takes On... Herself Episode: "Childhood"[338]
Murphy Brown Herself Episode: "I Hear a Symphony"[304][339][340][341]
2001 Bette Herself Episode: "The Invisible Mom"[304][342][343][344]
2001 Good Morning America Herself - Guest with Kelly Preston & Nancy Chuda TV series US, 1 episode
2001 The Rosie O'Donnell Show Herself - Guest with Kelly Preston TV series US, 1 episode
2001 Fox News In The Morning Herself - Guest with Kelly Preston & Nancy Chuda TV series US, 1 episode
2001 Sue McIntosh Presents: Olivia Newton-John Herself - Guest TV series AUSTRALIA, 1 episode
2001 Top Ten Herself TV series UK, 1 episode
2001 Behind The Music Herself TV series US, 1 episode
2001 Not Under My Roof Herself Video, US
2002 Rove Live Herself - Guest TV series AUSTRALIA, 1 episode
2002 Good Morning Australia Herself - Guest with Pat Farrar TV series AUSTRALIA, 1 episode
2002 Today Herself - Guest with Chloe & Matt Lattanzi at "Hair" musical premiere in Melbourne TV series AUSTRALIA, 1 episode
2002 Burke's Backyard Herself - Celebrity Gardener TV series AUSTRALIA, 1 episode
2002 VH-1 Behind The Movie: Grease Herself TV series US, 1 episode
2002 Vh-1 Where Are They Now? Herself TV series US, 1 episode
2002 This Is Your Life: Helen Reddy Herself TV series AUSTRALIA, 1 episode
2002 The 16th Annual ARIA Awards Herself - Aria Hall Of Fame Inductee TV special, AUSTRALIA
2002 Australians Unite: Bali Appeal Herself TV special, AUSTRALIA
2002 An Audience With John Farnham Herself & Sue McIntosh - Audience members TV special, AUSTRALIA
2002 Farmhand Concert For Drought Relief Herself sings "I Honestly Love You" TV special, AUSTRALIA
2002 Mornings Herself - Guest TV series AUSTRALIA, 1 episode
2002 A Night with Olivia Herself Channel 9 special[345]
2002 Rove Live Herself - Guest TV series AUSTRALIA, 1 episode
2002 After They Were Famous: Grease Herself TV series UK, 1 episode
2002 The Making Of "2" Herself TV special, AUSTRALIA
2002 One World with Olivia Newton-John Herself - Host TV series US, 3 episodes
2003 Live in Japan 2003 Herself BS-Hi special[346]
2003/07 American Idol Herself – Guest Judge 3 episodes[347]
2004 This Is Your Life Herself Australian TV series
2005 Olivia Newton-John Gold Herself Australian TV special
2008 Coming Home Herself BBC Wales Documentary, UK
Sordid Lives: The Series Bitsy Mae Harling Supporting role (12 episodes)[304]
2009 Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Herself Episode: "Fly the Super Gay Skies"[348]
2010 Glee Herself Episodes: "Bad Reputation", "Journey to Regionals"[304][349][350][351][352]
2015 RuPaul's Drag Race Herself – Guest Judge Episode: "Glamazonian Airways"[304]
Dancing with the Stars Herself – Guest Judge Episode: "Famous Dances Night"[353]
2022 Olivia Newton-John at the BBC Herself BBC2 Documentary, UK

Tours

Headlining

Co-headlining

Residency show

See also

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olivia, newton, john, dame, september, 1948, august, 2022, british, australian, singer, actress, activist, four, time, grammy, award, winner, whose, music, career, included, singles, including, number, singles, billboard, number, albums, billboard, love, know,. Dame Olivia Newton John AC DBE 26 September 1948 8 August 2022 was a British and Australian singer actress and activist 3 She was a four time Grammy Award winner whose music career included 15 top ten singles including 5 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 4 and two number one albums on the Billboard 200 If You Love Me Let Me Know 1974 and Have You Never Been Mellow 1975 Eleven of her singles including two Platinum and 14 of her albums including two Platinum and four 2 Platinum have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA DameOlivia Newton JohnAC DBENewton John at the premiere of A Few Best Men in Sydney 2012Born 1948 09 26 26 September 1948Cambridge EnglandDied8 August 2022 2022 08 08 aged 73 Santa Ynez California USCitizenshipAustralia from 1981 United KingdomOccupationsSingeractressactivistYears active1963 2022SpousesMatt Lattanzi m 1984 div 1995 wbr John Easterling m 2008 wbr ChildrenChloe LattanziRelativesMax Born grandfather Victor Ehrenberg great grandfather Brett Goldsmith nephew Tottie Goldsmith niece Emerson Newton John nephew Gustav Victor Rudolf Born uncle Georgina Born cousin Ben Elton third cousin Musical careerOriginMelbourne AustraliaGenresPopcountrycountry popsoft rock 1 2 Instrument s VocalsLabelsUniMCAEMIPyeFestivalGeffenWebsiteolivianewton john wbr comSignatureIn 1978 Newton John starred in the musical film Grease which was the highest grossing musical film at the time and whose soundtrack remains one of the world s best selling albums It features two major hit duets with co star John Travolta You re the One That I Want which is one of the best selling singles of all time and Summer Nights Her signature solo recordings include the Record of the Year Grammy winner I Honestly Love You 1974 and Physical 1981 Billboard s highest ranking Hot 100 single of the 1980s Other defining hit singles include If Not for You and Banks of the Ohio both 1971 Let Me Be There 1973 If You Love Me Let Me Know 1974 Have You Never Been Mellow 1975 Sam 1977 Hopelessly Devoted to You 1978 also from Grease A Little More Love 1978 Twist of Fate 1983 and from the 1980 film Xanadu Magic and Xanadu with the Electric Light Orchestra With global sales of more than 100 million records Newton John established herself as one of the best selling music artists of all time 5 Newton John who battled breast cancer three times was an advocate and sponsor for breast cancer research She also was an activist for environmental and animal rights causes Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Career beginnings 2 2 Early success 2 2 1 Lawsuit against MCA Records 2 3 Grease 2 3 1 Lawsuit against UMG 2 4 New image 2 5 Motherhood cancer and advocacy 2 6 Later career 2 6 1 2012 2022 3 In the media 4 Musical legacy 5 Personal life 5 1 Relationships 5 2 Residences and citizenship 6 Illness and death 7 Awards and honours 8 Discography 9 Filmography 10 Television 11 Tours 12 See also 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External linksEarly life EditOlivia Newton John was born on 26 September 1948 6 in Cambridge England to Brinley Bryn Newton John 1914 1992 and Irene Helene nee Born 1914 2003 6 Her father was born in Wales to a middle class family Her mother was born in Germany and had come to the UK with her family in 1933 to escape the Nazi Regime 7 8 Newton John s maternal grandfather was German Jewish Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Born 9 10 Her maternal grandmother Hedwig was the daughter of German Jewish jurist Victor Ehrenberg and of his Lutheran wife Helene Agatha von Jhering Through Helene Agatha Olivia was a descendant of Protestant theologian Martin Luther 11 12 Helene Agatha s own father Newton John s great great grandfather was jurist Rudolf von Jhering Olivia s uncle was pharmacologist Gustav Victor Rudolf Born Through her Ehrenberg line Newton John was a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton 9 Newton John s father was an MI5 officer 13 on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during World War II 14 15 After the war he became the headmaster of the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys and was in this post when Newton John was born 16 Newton John was the youngest of three children following her brother Hugh 1939 2019 a medical doctor and her sister Rona 1941 2013 an actress who was married to restaurateur Brian Goldsmith 17 and was later married to Newton John s Grease co star Jeff Conaway from 1980 until their divorce in 1985 She also had a half brother Toby and a half sister Sarah both of whom were born of her father s second marriage In early 1954 when Newton John was five her family emigrated to Melbourne Australia on the SS Strathaird 18 Her father worked as a professor of German and as the master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne 19 Her family attended church while her father served as the head of the Presbyterian college 20 Newton John attended Christ Church Grammar School in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra 21 and then the University High School in Parkville 22 Career EditCareer beginnings Edit Newton John went to primary school with Daryl Braithwaite who also followed a singing career 23 At age 14 she formed Sol Four a short lived all girl group with three classmates often performing at a coffee shop owned by her brother in law 24 Newton John originally wanted to become a veterinarian but then chose to focus on performance after doubting her ability to pass science exams 25 In 1964 Newton John s acting talent was first recognised portraying Lady Mary Lasenby in her University High School s production of The Admirable Crichton as she became the Young Sun s Drama Award best schoolgirl actress runner up 26 She then became a regular on local Australian television shows including Time for Terry and HSV 7 s The Happy Show where she performed as Lovely Livvy 27 She also appeared on The Go Show where she met her future duet partner singer Pat Carroll and her future music producer John Farrar Carroll and Farrar later married In 1965 she entered and won a talent contest on the television program Sing Sing Sing hosted by 1960s Australian icon Johnny O Keefe performing the songs Anyone Who Had a Heart and Everything s Coming Up Roses She was initially reluctant to use the prize she had won a trip to Great Britain but travelled there nearly a year later after her mother encouraged her to broaden her horizons 4 Newton John recorded her first single Till You Say You ll Be Mine in Britain for Decca Records in 1966 4 While in Britain Newton John missed her then boyfriend Ian Turpie 28 with whom she had co starred in an Australian telefilm Funny Things Happen Down Under She repeatedly booked trips back to Australia that her mother cancelled 24 Newton John s outlook changed when Pat Carroll moved to the UK The two formed a duo called Pat and Olivia and toured nightclubs in Europe In one incident they were booked at Paul Raymond s Revue in Soho London and were unaware that it was a strip club until they began to perform onstage dressed primly in frilly high collared dresses 29 During this period she and Carroll contributed backup vocals to recordings by a number of other artists notably the song Come In You ll Get Pneumonia by the Easybeats After Carroll s visa expired forcing her to return to Australia Newton John remained in Britain to pursue solo work until 1975 29 Newton John was recruited for the group Toomorrow 30 formed by American producer Don Kirshner In 1970 the group starred in a science fiction musical film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album on RCA Records both named after the group That same year the group made two single recordings You re My Baby Now Goin Back and I Could Never Live Without Your Love Roll Like a River Neither track became a chart success the project failed and the group disbanded 31 Early success Edit Newton John released her first solo album If Not for You US No 158 Pop in 1971 In the UK the album was known as Olivia Newton John The title track written by Bob Dylan was her first international hit US No 25 Pop No 1 Adult Contemporary AC 32 Her follow up single Banks of the Ohio was a top 10 hit in the UK and Australia She was voted Best British Female Vocalist two years in a row by the magazine Record Mirror She made frequent appearances on Cliff Richard s weekly show It s Cliff Richard 33 and starred with him in the telefilm The Case In 1972 Newton John s second UK album Olivia was released but never formally issued in the United States where her career floundered after If Not for You Subsequent singles including Banks of the Ohio No 94 Pop No 34 AC and remakes of George Harrison s What Is Life No 34 AC and John Denver s Take Me Home Country Roads No 119 Pop made minimal impact on the Hot 100 Her fortune changed with the release of Let Me Be There in 1973 The song reached the American top 10 on the Pop No 6 Country No 7 34 and AC No 3 charts and earned her a Grammy for Best Country Female 33 and an Academy of Country Music award for Most Promising Female Vocalist 32 Her second American album named Let Me Be There after the hit single was her third in Britain where the LP is known as Music Makes My Day It is also called Let Me Be There in Australia 35 however the US and Canadian versions featured an alternate track list that mixed new cuts with selections from Olivia and also recycled six songs from If Not for You which was going out of print From left to right Dionne Warwick Don Kirshner Helen Reddy and Newton John in 1974 In 1974 Newton John represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Long Live Love The song was chosen for Newton John by the British public out of six possible entries Newton John later admitted that she disliked the song 36 Newton John finished fourth at the contest held in Brighton behind the Swedish winning entry Waterloo by ABBA All six Eurovision contest song candidates Have Love Will Travel Lovin You Ain t Easy Long Live Love Someday Angel Eyes and Hands Across the Sea were recorded by Newton John and included on her Long Live Love album her first for the EMI Records label 37 The Long Live Love album was released in the US and Canada as If You Love Me Let Me Know All the Eurovision entries were dropped for different and more country flavoured tunes intended to capitalise on the success of Let Me Be There the North American offering used selections from Long Live Love Olivia and Music Makes My Day and only the title cut was new If You Love Me Let Me Know s title track was its first single and reached No 5 Pop No 2 Country 4 her best country position to date and No 2 AC The next single I Honestly Love You became Newton John s signature song Written and composed by Jeff Barry and Peter Allen 33 the ballad became her first Pop number one staying there for two weeks second AC number one for three weeks and third top 10 Country No 6 hit and earned Newton John two more Grammys for Record of the Year 38 and Best Pop Vocal Performance Female In her 2018 autobiography Don t Stop Believin Newton John describes I Honestly Love You as a song which is so simple with a meaning that was deeper than the ocean 39 In many of her concert performances Newton John closed with this tune and she further explains It s such a special song and I have some very profound memories of times that I ve sung it very intimate times with special people in my life and all through my life it s meant something different to me and every time I sing it it has a different resonance 40 The success of the singles If You Love Me Let Me Know and I Honestly Love You helped the album reach No 1 on both the pop one week 41 and country eight weeks albums charts citation needed In the UK and Australia If You Love Me Let Me Know was featured on compilations titled First Impressions and Great Hits First Impressions respectively 42 43 In 1974 George Hamilton IV also presented to her the BCMA British Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year in London England 44 Newton John in 1978 In the United States Newton John s success in country music sparked a debate among purists who took issue with a foreigner singing country flavoured pop music being classed with native Nashville artists 30 In addition to her Grammy for Let Me Be There Newton John was also named the Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year in 1974 making her the first British singer to have won the award 45 46 47 Consequently defeating more established Nashville based nominees Loretta Lynn Dolly Parton and Tanya Tucker as well as Canadian artist Anne Murray 33 This protest in part led to the formation of the short lived Association of Country Entertainers ACE 48 Newton John was eventually supported by the country music community Stella Parton Dolly s sister recorded Ode to Olivia and Newton John recorded her 1976 album Don t Stop Believin in Nashville Tennessee 33 Encouraged by expatriate Australian singer Helen Reddy Newton John left the UK and moved to the US Newton John topped the Pop one week and Country six weeks albums charts with her next album Have You Never Been Mellow For 45 years Olivia held the Guinness World Record for the shortest gap 154 days by a female between new Number 1 albums If You Love Me Let Me Know gt Have You Never Been Mellow on the US Billboard 200 album charts until Taylor Swift in 2020 140 days with folklore gt evermore 49 The If You Love Me Let Me Know album generated two singles the John Rostill penned title track No 1 Pop No 3 Country 34 No 1 AC 50 and Please Mr Please No 3 Pop No 5 Country No 1 AC 50 Her pop career cooled with the release of her next album Clearly Love Her streak of five consecutive gold top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 ended when the album s first single Something Better to Do stopped at No 13 also No 19 Country and No 1 AC Her albums still achieved gold status and she returned to the top ten of the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts again in 1978 51 Newton John s singles continued to top the AC chart where she amassed ten No 1 singles including a record seven consecutively 52 I Honestly Love You 1974 3 weeks Have You Never Been Mellow 1975 1 week Please Mr Please 1975 3 weeks Something Better to Do 1975 3 weeks Let It Shine He Ain t Heavy He s My Brother 1976 2 weeks Come on Over 1976 1 week Don t Stop Believin 1976 1 weekShe provided a prominent but uncredited vocal on John Denver s Fly Away single which was succeeded by her own single Let It Shine He Ain t Heavy He s My Brother at No 1 on the AC chart Fly Away returned to No 1 after the two week reign of Let It Shine Newton John also continued to reach the Country top 10 where she tallied seven top 10 singles through 1976 s Come on Over No 23 Pop No 5 Country 34 No 1 AC and six consecutive of a career nine total top 10 albums through 1976 s Don t Stop Believin No 30 Pop No 7 Country 34 She headlined her first US television special A Special Olivia Newton John in November 1976 33 In 1977 the single Sam a mid tempo waltz from Don t Stop Believin returned her to the No 1 spot on the AC No 40 Country and also reached No 20 Pop her highest chart placement since Something Better to Do By mid 1977 Newton John s pop AC and country success all suffered a slight blow Her Making a Good Thing Better album No 34 Pop No 13 Country was not certified gold and its only single the title track No 87 Pop No 20 AC did not reach the AC top 10 or the Country chart Later that year Olivia Newton John s Greatest Hits No 13 Pop No 7 Country became her first platinum album 53 Newton John was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE in the 1979 New Year Honours 54 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire DBE in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to charity cancer research and entertainment 55 Lawsuit against MCA Records Edit In April 1975 Newton John and MCA entered into an initial two year four album deal in which she was expected to deliver two LPs a year for the record company MCA also had the option of extending the contract for six more records and three more years and if the artist did not deliver on time MCA was allegedly allowed to lengthen the term of the contract 56 Per her new agreement with MCA Newton John s first three albums beginning with Clearly Love came out on schedule Her fourth Making a Good Thing Better was late This delay occurred around the same time she was working on Grease for RSO Records and the postponement arguably gave MCA which seemed to want to keep its hold on the performer the right to exercise its option extend its contract and stop her from signing with another enterprise She also did not deliver a newly optioned album 57 On 31 May 1978 Newton John and MCA each filed breach of contract actions against the other Newton John sued for 10 million and claimed that MCA s failure to adequately promote and advertise her product freed her from their agreement MCA s countersuit requested 1 million in damages and an injunction against Newton John working with another music firm 58 Ultimately Newton John was forbidden from offering her recording services to another label until the five year pact had run its course The original covenant was not automatically extended though she had not duly supplied the total sum of vinyls indicated in the contract 59 As a result of the lawsuit record companies changed their contracts to be based on the number of albums recorded by a musician and not a specific number of years 60 Grease Edit Newton John appearing with John Travolta in 1982 Newton John s career soared after she starred in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease in 1978 She was offered the lead role of Sandy after meeting producer Allan Carr at a dinner party at Helen Reddy s home 19 Disillusioned by her Toomorrow experience and concerned that she was too old to play a high school senior she was 28 during the filming of Grease Newton John insisted on a screen test with the film s co lead John Travolta 19 The film accounted for Newton John s Australian accent by changing her original American character Sandy Dumbrowski into Sandy Olsson an Australian who holidays in the United States and then moves there with her family Newton John previewed some of the film s soundtrack during her second American network television special Olivia featuring guests ABBA and Andy Gibb 61 Grease became the biggest box office hit of 1978 62 The soundtrack album spent 12 non consecutive weeks at No 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton John the platinum You re the One That I Want No 1 Pop No 23 AC with John Travolta the gold Hopelessly Devoted to You No 3 Pop No 20 Country No 7 AC and the gold Summer Nights No 5 Pop No 21 AC with John Travolta and the film s cast Summer Nights was from the original play written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey 63 but the former two songs were written and composed by her long time music producer John Farrar specifically for the film 64 Newton John became the second woman after Linda Ronstadt in 1977 to have two singles Hopelessly Devoted to You and Summer Nights in the Billboard top 5 simultaneously 33 Newton John s performance earned her a People s Choice Award for Favourite Film Actress She was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical and performed the Oscar nominated Hopelessly Devoted to You at the 1979 Academy Awards 65 The film s popularity has endured It was re released for its 20th anniversary in 1998 66 and ranked as the second highest grossing film behind Titanic in its opening weekend 67 It was re shown in April 2018 in over 700 American theatres for two days only 68 The soundtrack is one of the best selling soundtracks of all time 69 Following her death in August 2022 AMC announced that the picture would reappear in some of its cinemas over the weekend and that a portion of the proceeds would go to breast cancer research 70 Of the film s long lasting likability Newton John contended I think the songs are timeless They re fun and have great energy The 50s feel music has always been popular and it s nostalgic for my generation and then the young kids are rediscovering it every 10 years or so it seems People buying the album was a way for them to remember those feelings of watching the movie and feelings of that time period I feel very grateful to be a part of this movie that s still loved so much 64 Lawsuit against UMG Edit In June 2006 Newton John s company ON J Productions Ltd filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group UMG for 1 million in unpaid royalties from the Grease soundtrack 71 In 2007 it was announced that she and UMG had reached a conditional settlement 72 New image Edit In November 1978 she released her next studio album Totally Hot which became her first solo top 10 No 7 album since Have You Never Been Mellow Dressed on the cover all in leather Newton John capitalised on her character s look that was introduced at the end of Grease moreover Totally Hot s singles A Little More Love No 3 Pop No 94 Country No 4 AC Deeper Than the Night No 11 Pop No 87 Country No 4 AC and the title track No 52 Pop all demonstrated a more aggressive and uptempo sound for Newton John 73 Although the album de emphasised the country sound the LP still reached No 4 on the Country Albums chart Newton John released the B side Dancin Round and Round of the Totally Hot single to Country radio The entry peaked at No 29 74 as well as No 82 Pop and No 25 AC and it became her last charted solo Country airplay single 75 Newton John meeting Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at a Sydney concert in 1980 with her there is also Roger Woodward and Paul Hogan in shorts Newton John began 1980 by releasing I Can t Help It No 12 Pop No 8 AC a duet with Andy Gibb from his After Dark album and by starring in her third television special Hollywood Nights Later that year she appeared in her first film since Grease when she starred with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck in the musical fantasy Xanadu Although the film was a critical failure its soundtrack No 4 Pop was certified double platinum and scored five top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 76 Newton John charted with Magic No 1 Pop No 1 AC Suddenly with Cliff Richard No 20 Pop No 4 AC and the title song Xanadu with the Electric Light Orchestra No 8 Pop No 2 AC ELO also charted with I m Alive No 16 Pop No 48 AC and All Over the World No 13 Pop No 46 AC 77 Magic was Newton John s biggest pop hit to that point four weeks at No 1 76 and still ranks as the biggest AC hit of her career five weeks at No 1 The film has since become a cult classic and the basis for a Broadway show that ran for more than 500 performances beginning in 2007 and was nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Musical 78 In 1981 Newton John released her most successful studio album the double platinum Physical which strongly reinforced her image change by showcasing risque rock oriented material Newton John explained I just wasn t in the mood for tender ballads I wanted peppy stuff because that s how I m feeling 79 Of the title cut Newton John said Roger Davies was my manager at the time he played it for me and I knew it was a very catchy song 80 The title track written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick spent ten weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 81 This matched the record at that time held by Debby Boone s You Light Up My Life for most weeks spent at No 1 in the rock era The single was certified platinum and it ultimately ranked as the biggest song of the decade In 2008 Billboard ranked the song No 6 among all songs that charted in the 50 year history of the Hot 100 82 Physical earned Newton John her only placement ever on the R amp B Singles No 28 and Albums No 32 charts The Physical album spawned two more singles Make a Move on Me No 5 Pop No 6 AC 83 and Landslide No 52 Pop 84 Newton John at the opening of a Koala Blue store in 1988 The provocative lyrics of the Physical title track prompted two Utah radio stations to ban the single from their playlists 85 In 2010 Billboard magazine ranked this as the most popular single ever about sex 86 To counter its overtly suggestive tone Newton John filmed an exercise themed video that turned the song into an aerobics anthem and made headbands a fashion accessory outside the gym 80 87 She helped pioneer the music video industry by recording a video album for Physical featuring videos of all the album s tracks and three of her older hits The video album earned her a fourth Grammy and was aired as an ABC prime time special Let s Get Physical 81 becoming a top 10 Nielsen hit Newton John asserted Like everyone I ve got different sides of my personality I ve my dominant self my need to be dominated self the sane Olivia and the crazy Olivia Playing these different characters gave me a chance to show strange parts people haven t seen much 79 The success of Physical led to an international tour and the release of her second hits collection the double platinum Olivia s Greatest Hits Vol 2 No 16 Pop which yielded two more top 40 singles Heart Attack No 3 Pop 83 and Tied Up No 38 Pop The tour was filmed for her Olivia in Concert television special which premiered on HBO in January 1983 The special was subsequently released to video earning Newton John another Grammy nomination 88 Newton John reteamed with Travolta in 1983 for the critically and commercially unsuccessful movie Two of a Kind 89 redeemed by its platinum soundtrack No 26 Pop featuring Twist of Fate No 5 Pop 83 Livin in Desperate Times No 31 Pop and a new duet with Travolta Take a Chance No 3 AC Newton John released another video package the Grammy nominated Twist of Fate featuring videos of her four songs on the Two of a Kind soundtrack and the two new singles from Olivia s Greatest Hits Vol 2 90 That same year Newton John and Pat Farrar formerly Pat Carroll founded Koala Blue 91 92 The store originally for Australian imports evolved into a chain of women s clothing boutiques 91 The chain was initially successful but it eventually declared bankruptcy and closed in 1992 73 91 Newton John and Farrar later licensed the brand name for a line of Australian wines 93 Newton John at the 1989 Academy Awards Newton John a supporter of Australian rules football Carlton performed the Australian national anthem at the 1986 VFL Grand Final between Carlton and Hawthorn 94 Newton John s music career cooled again with the release of her next studio album the gold 95 Soul Kiss No 29 Pop 96 in 1985 97 The album s only charted single was the title track No 20 Pop No 20 AC 97 The video album for Soul Kiss featured only five of the album s ten tracks concept videos for the album s singles Soul Kiss and Toughen Up as well as performance videos of the tracks Culture Shock Emotional Tangle and The Right Moment 98 After a nearly three year hiatus following the birth of her daughter Chloe in January 1986 Newton John resumed her recording career with the 1988 album The Rumour The album was promoted by an HBO special Olivia Down Under Its first single the title track was written and produced by Elton John Both the single No 62 Pop No 33 AC and the album No 67 Pop faltered commercially 99 as the nearly 40 year old Newton John seemed old when compared with the teen queens Debbie Gibson and Tiffany ruling the pop charts at that time The album was praised by critics as more mature with Newton John addressing topics such as AIDS Love and Let Live the environment and single parent households 100 The second single Can t We Talk It Over in Bed did not chart but was released in 1989 by Grayson Hugh the song s arranger and became a top 20 pop hit as Talk It Over 101 Motherhood cancer and advocacy Edit In September 1989 Newton John released her self described self indulgent album Warm and Tender which reunited her with producer John Farrar absent from her previous LP and also marked a return to a more wholesome image Inspired by her daughter who appeared on the cover the album featured lullabies and love songs for parents and their children 73 This album the last one produced by Farrar also failed to revive her recording career as the disc reached only No 124 Pop 102 Newton John was primed for another comeback in 1992 when she compiled her third hits collection Back to Basics The Essential Collection 1971 1992 and planned her first tour since her Physical trek ten years earlier Shortly after the album s release Newton John was diagnosed with breast cancer forcing her to cancel all publicity for the album including the tour She received her diagnosis the same weekend her father died 103 Newton John recovered 104 and later became an advocate for breast cancer research and other health issues She was a product spokesperson for the Liv Kit a breast self examination product She was also partial owner of the Gaia Retreat and Spa in Byron Bay 105 Newton John s advocacy for health issues was presaged by her prior involvement with many humanitarian causes Newton John cancelled a 1978 concert tour of Japan to protest the slaughter of dolphins caught in tuna fishing nets 106 She subsequently rescheduled the tour when the Japanese government assured her that the practice was being curbed 107 Her concern for these beautifully evolved creatures as she called them in the Warm and Tender liner notes is also expressed in the 1981 self penned piece The Promise the Dolphin Song described as one of the most tender heartfelt vocals of the singer s career 107 Newton John said that The Promise from Physical was inspired by and even channelled by dolphins she met at Sea Life Park in Hawaii and attested It was strange The morning after I was in the pools I woke up and the words and melody were in my head I think it was a gift from them 79 She was a performer on the 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert for the UN s International Year of the Child televised worldwide During the concert artists performed songs for which they donated their royalties some in perpetuity to benefit the cause She was appointed a Goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Environment Programme 108 In 1991 she became the National Spokesperson for the Colette Chuda Environmental Fund CHEC Children s Health Environmental Coalition 109 following the death from Wilms tumour of five year old Colette Chuda daughter of Newton John s friend Nancy Chuda 110 Newton John s cancer diagnosis also affected the type of music she recorded In 1994 she released Gaia One Woman s Journey which chronicled her ordeal Co produced by Newton John for ONJ Productions Gaia was originally issued by Festival in Australia but also distributed by various independent labels in Japan and Europe In 2002 there was an American distribution by Hip O Records and a subsequent re release in 2012 by Green Hill featured an alternative cover photo 111 112 Gaia was the first album on which Newton John wrote all the music and lyrics herself and this endeavour encouraged her to become more active as a songwriter thereafter The single No Matter What You Do entered the Australian top 40 and the second single the environmentally themed Don t Cut Me Down was also used in the film It s My Party The Latin fuelled Not Gonna Give into It eventually became heavily showcased in concert performance The Way of Love was featured in the telefilm A Christmas Romance 113 and Trust Yourself was incorporated into both the TV movie The Wilde Girls 114 and the theatrical flick Sordid Lives 115 Newton John was listed as president of the Isle of Man Basking shark Society between 1998 and 2005 116 In 2005 she released Stronger Than Before sold exclusively in the United States by Hallmark This was her second exclusive album for Hallmark Cards after her successful first Christmas album Tis the Season with Vince Gill five years earlier Proceeds from the album s sales benefited breast cancer research The album featured the song Phenomenal Woman based on the poem by Maya Angelou that featured guest vocals from Diahann Carroll Beth Nielsen Chapman Delta Goodrem Amy Holland Patti LaBelle and Mindy Smith all survivors of or affected by cancer 117 The following year Newton John released a healing CD Grace and Gratitude 118 The album was sold exclusively by Walgreens 119 also to benefit various charities including Y ME National Breast Cancer Organization The CD was the heart of their Body Heart Spirit Wellness Collection which also featured a re branded Liv Kit and breast health dietary supplements She re recorded some tracks from Grace and Gratitude in 2010 and re released the album as Grace and Gratitude Renewed on the Green Hill music label The Renewed CD includes a new track Help Me to Heal not featured on the original album 120 In 2008 she raised funds to help build the Olivia Newton John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne Australia She led a three week 228 km walk along the Great Wall of China during April joined by various celebrities and cancer survivors throughout her trek The walk symbolised the steps cancer patients must take on their road to recovery 121 She released a companion CD A Celebration in Song the following month in Australia and later worldwide 122 featuring new and previously recorded duets by Olivia Newton John amp Friends including Jann Arden Jimmy Barnes John Farrar Barry Gibb Delta Goodrem Sun Ho Richard Marx Cliff Richard Melinda Schneider Amy Sky and Keith Urban 123 In 2016 Newton John re teamed with Amy Sky and Beth Nielsen Chapman to form a trio for the album Liv On 124 Newton John was featured in UniGlobe Entertainment s breast cancer docu drama 1 a Minute released in October 2010 125 The documentary was made by actress Namrata Singh Gujral and featured other celebrities who had survived breast cancer or who were affected by the disease During the same month Bluewater Productions released a comic book featuring Newton John to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month 126 Later career Edit Newton John continued to record and perform pop oriented music as well In 1998 she returned to Nashville to record Back with a Heart No 59 Pop 66 The album returned her to the top 10 No 9 on the Country Albums chart Its first single was a re recording of I Honestly Love You produced by David Foster and featuring Kenneth Babyface Edmonds on background vocals 66 that charted on the Pop No 67 and AC No 18 charts Country radio dismissed the song though it did peak at No 16 on the Country Sales chart The album track Love Is a Gift won Newton John a 1999 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song after being featured on the daytime serial As the World Turns 127 Newton John and Stephan Elliott at the premiere of A Few Best Men in Sydney 2012 During October December 1998 Newton John John Farnham and Anthony Warlow performed in The Main Event Tour 128 129 The album Highlights from The Main Event peaked at No 1 in December 130 was certified 4 platinum 131 won an ARIA Award for Highest Selling Australian CD at the 1999 Awards 132 and was also nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album 133 For the 2000 Summer Olympics Newton John and Farnham re teamed to perform Dare to Dream during the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony 134 Broadcast of the ceremony was viewed by an estimated 3 5 billion people around the world 135 In December 1998 following a hiatus of about 16 years Newton John also resumed touring by herself and in 2000 released a solo CD One Woman s Live Journey her first live album since 1981 s Love Performance 136 137 Newton John s subsequent albums were released primarily in Australia In 2002 she released 2 a duets album featuring mostly Australian artists Tina Arena Darren Hayes Jimmy Little Johnny O Keefe Billy Thorpe and Keith Urban as well as a duet with the deceased Peter Allen In addition 2 offered a hidden 12th track a samba version of Physical which Newton John later performed occasionally in concert instead of the more rock style original The album s 2004 Japanese release includes the bonus track Let It Be Me a duet with Cliff Richard with whom she had previously been coupled on Suddenly and Songs from Heathcliff 138 139 In 2002 Newton John was also inducted into Australia s ARIA Hall of Fame 140 Produced by Phil Ramone and recorded at the Indigo Recording Studios in Malibu for ONJ Productions Indigo Women of Song was released in October 2004 in Australia The tribute album featured Newton John covering songs by artists such as Joan Baez the Carpenters Doris Day Nina Simone Minnie Riperton She dedicated the album to her mother who had died the previous year of breast cancer 141 142 Indigo was subsequently released in the UK in April 2005 and in Japan in March 2006 A rebranded and resequenced version called Portraits A Tribute to Great Women of Song was eventually issued in the United States in 2011 Newton John also released several Christmas albums In 2000 she teamed with Vince Gill and the London Symphony Orchestra for Tis the Season sold exclusively through Hallmark The following year she released The Christmas Collection which compiled seasonal music previously recorded for her Hallmark Christmas album her appearance on Kenny Loggins 1999 TNN Christmas special and her contributions to the Mother and Child and Spirit of Christmas multi artist collections Green Hill Records re released this album with different artwork in 2010 In 2007 she re teamed with her Grace and Gratitude producer Amy Sky for Christmas Wish No 187 Pop which was sold exclusively by Target in its first year of release 143 Newton John acted occasionally since Two of a Kind She appeared in a supporting role in the 1996 AIDS drama It s My Party In 2000 she appeared in a dramatically different role as Bitsy Mae Harling a bisexual former convict country singer in Del Shores Sordid Lives 134 Newton John reprised her role for Sordid Lives The Series which aired one season on the LOGO television network The series featured five original songs written and composed by Newton John specifically for the show 144 In 2010 Newton John starred in the film Score A Hockey Musical released in Canada 145 She portrayed Hope Gordon the mother of a home schooled hockey prodigy The film opened the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival 146 Newton John s television work included starring in two Christmas films A Mom for Christmas 1990 147 and A Christmas Romance 1994 both top 10 Nielsen hits Her daughter Chloe starred as one of her children in both A Christmas Romance and in the 2001 Showtime film The Wilde Girls Newton John guest starred as herself in the sitcoms Ned and Stacey Murphy Brown and Bette and also made two appearances as herself on Glee 148 Newton John performing at the Sydney State Theatre in September 2008 In 2008 Newton John took part in the BBC Wales program Coming Home about her Welsh family history Also in 2008 Newton John joined Anne Murray on Murray s last album titled Duets Friends amp Legends She sang Gordon Lightfoot s hit Cotton Jenny with Murray 149 For her first Glee appearance Newton John recreated her Physical video with series regular Jane Lynch 150 151 The performance was released as a digital single which peaked at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 2010 152 In Australia Newton John hosted the animal and nature series Wild Life 153 154 and guest starred as Joanna on two episodes of the Australian series The Man From Snowy River 155 156 157 Newton John released another concert DVD Olivia Newton John and the Sydney Symphony Live at the Sydney Opera House and a companion CD her third live album titled Olivia s Live Hits 158 159 An edited version of the DVD premiered on PBS station WLIW Garden City New York in October 2007 160 In January 2011 Newton John began filming the comedy A Few Best Men in Australia with director Stephan Elliott in the role of mother of the bride The groom is played by Xavier Samuel 161 2012 2022 Edit Newton John was actively touring and doing concerts from 2012 to 2017 and also performed a handful of shows in 2018 162 163 Her dates for A Summer Night with Olivia Newton John even included stops in Asia and Canada and culminated in a rare concert appearance in London in 2013 Her March 2013 UK trek also encompassed Bournemouth Brighton Birmingham Manchester and Cardiff Wales 164 In November 2012 Newton John teamed with John Travolta to make the charity album This Christmas in support of The Olivia Newton John Cancer amp Wellness Centre and the Jett Travolta Foundation Artists featured on the album include Barbra Streisand James Taylor Chick Corea Kenny G Tony Bennett Cliff Richard and the Count Basie Orchestra 165 A 2013 residency at the Flamingo Las Vegas was postponed due to the May 2013 death of her elder sister Rona aged 72 from a brain tumour Newton John resumed performing doing 45 shows beginning in April 2014 166 167 168 169 Along with the Vegas shows Newton John released a new EP in April 2014 entitled Hotel Sessions which consisted of seven tracks of unreleased demos that were recorded between 2002 and 2011 with her nephew Brett Goldsmith The CD contains a cover of Broken Wings as well as the popular with fans original Best of My Love which had leaked on the internet many years prior 170 Her Vegas stay was eventually extended beyond August 2014 171 172 173 and her Summer Nights residency finished in December 2016 after 175 shows 174 Her successful three year run even prompted a fourth live album Summer Nights Live in Las Vegas 2015 In 2015 Newton John also reunited with John Farnham for a joint venture called Two Strong Hearts Live 175 176 Newton John performing at Vina 2017 In 2015 Newton John was a guest judge on an episode of RuPaul s Drag Race That same year she scored her first number one single on Billboard s Dance Club Songs chart with You Have to Believe with daughter Chloe and producer Dave Aude The song was a re imagining of her 1980 single Magic which she noted was to celebrate both the 35th anniversary of Xanadu and as a dedication to her daughter About the latter Newton John stated I met Chloe s dad on the set of Xanadu so without that film Chloe wouldn t be here She was the real magic that came out of that film 177 The song became the first mother daughter single to reach No 1 on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart 178 In 2015 Newton John was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame 179 In 2017 she collaborated with two North American singer songwriters Beth Nielsen Chapman and Amy Sky on a joint concert tour entitled Liv On and produced a CD by the same name 180 On 7 May 2019 Newton John s elder brother Hugh a doctor died at age 80 181 his death left Newton John as the sole surviving sibling In recognition for her work as an entertainer and philanthropist she was bestowed Australia s highest honour the Companion of the Order of Australia in June 2019 182 In December 2019 Newton John and Travolta also re teamed for three live Meet n Grease 183 sing along events in the Florida cities of Tampa West Palm Beach and Jacksonville 184 Subsequently a sing along re broadcast of Grease aired on CBS Television 185 In February 2020 Newton John appeared at the Fire Fight Australia charity event This was her final public performance 186 In January 2021 Newton John released her final single Window in the Wall a duet about unity which she recorded with her daughter Chloe Lattanzi The music video for the song peaked at No 1 on the iTunes pop music video chart the week of its release 187 188 In the media EditOn 2 November 2019 Julien s Auctions auctioned hundreds of memorabilia items from Newton John s career The sale raised 2 4 million Newton John s Grease outfit garnered 405 700 her pants and jacket were purchased separately by two different billionaires Sara Blakely founder of Spanx bought Newton John s black skintight pants from Grease for 162 000 189 The anonymous buyer who acquired her famous Grease leather jacket for 243 200 185 000 returned the item to her and said It should not sit in a billionaire s closet for country club bragging rights The odds of beating a recurring cancer using the newest emerging therapies is a thousandfold greater than someone appearing out of the blue buying your most famous and cherished icon and returning it to you All proceeds were donated to her cancer and wellness research centre in Australia 190 191 192 Musical legacy EditNewton John s first boyfriend Ian Turpie once said of her early appearances In those days she had a small voice but it was very pure She could sing prettily in tune The improvement in her singing since she went to England has been remarkable She told me Shirley Bassey has been a big influence on her After hearing Bassey she worked at developing her head voice to sound like a chest voice the way Bassey uses hers The power she s developed is amazing 28 Michael Dwyer of the Sydney Morning Herald maintains that following Newton John s career was like watching our slightly older and braver sister growing up in public and her passing feels today like a lost member of the family 193 Rachel Syme of The New Yorker also suggests that her familial down to earth demeanor and humanity may have even superseded her singing accomplishments Her most lasting legacy might be as the rare celebrity who was almost universally well liked and thought of as an essentially kind and warmhearted person 194 Her musical abilities on their own merits were also impressive In her 1982 Olivia in Concert performance of Dolly Parton s Jolene Newton John showcases a down falling note range covering three octaves Much later Newton John and Parton recorded a duet of Jolene which was not formally released until after Newton John s death 195 In her memoir Newton John describes herself as not a power singer but more of an interpretive one 196 and author Lauren O Neill concurs She sang with clarity and precision her high notes bright and open like a window on a summer morning but her voice was never clinical a sultry purr euphoric cry or breathy gasp seemed always available to her Her vocal on Hopelessly Devoted to You from Grease is clean and soaring but to hear it is to be right down in the dirt with Sandy too to feel and perhaps even identify with her total frustration with herself As she slides between notes while singing I m out of my head she shows us her emotional freefall as well as telling us about it 197 Long before and after the career summit of Grease Newton John proved herself to be a fairly versatile performer Maura Johnston of Vulture assesses Newton John was a regular chart topper throughout the 70s her lithe soprano adapting well to the soft pop sound of the era with AM Gold staples and tracks from the folk and country world As it turned out Newton John s voice was pretty well suited to the spiky dance pop that would become popular in the early 1980s too 39 However Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the Los Angeles Times offers a counterpoint on her career decline in the mid 1980s Hardness never was Newton John s comfort zone though and the 1980s were a much harder decade than the 1970s The inherent warmth of 1970s studio sessions gave way to the cold synthesized gleam of the 1980s a sterile sound that suited her well only once the candied faux new wave of Twist of Fate produced by David Foster 198 Johnston further maintains Her pop heyday transcended any attempts to musically pigeonhole her and by the time she stopped having many new hits her musical legacy had been pretty well solidified 39 Newton John s work has inspired many other female vocalists including Juliana Hatfield Lisa Loeb Kylie Minogue Delta Goodrem Natalie Maines and Alanis Morissette 199 200 201 202 203 204 Pink staged a commemorative Newton John cover during the 2022 American Music Awards 205 At the 2022 ARIA Music Awards a special tribute in her honour featured performances by Natalie Imbruglia Peking Duk and Tones and I 206 Personal life EditRelationships Edit Newton John with her first husband Matt Lattanzi at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989 Newton John with her second husband John Easterling in 2010 In the mid 1960s Newton John dated Australian actor and singer Ian Turpie her co star in the 1965 musical film Funny Things Happen Down Under 24 207 They met in late 1962 when Turpie attended the coffee shop where Newton John s group Sol Four performed 28 The relationship continued until she returned to England in 1966 28 In 1968 Newton John was engaged to but never married Bruce Welch one of her early producers and co writer of her hit Please Mr Please 208 In 1972 Newton John ended her relationship with Welch who subsequently attempted suicide 208 In 1973 while vacationing on the French Riviera Newton John met British businessman Lee Kramer who became both her new boyfriend and manager 209 Newton John lived with Kramer on and off and they stayed a couple until 1979 she called their turbulent pairing one long breakup 79 210 Kramer subsequently returned to England and married He also managed vocalist Krishna Das Kramer died in 2017 211 Newton John married her long time partner actor Matt Lattanzi in December 1984 212 The couple had met in 1980 while filming Xanadu They divorced in 1995 According to People magazine people close to the couple cited the disparity between her spiritual interests and his more earthly ones as a key factor in the dissolution The couple remained friends Their daughter Chloe Rose was born in January 1986 134 Newton John met gaffer cameraman Patrick McDermott a year after her 1995 divorce from Matt Lattanzi The couple dated on and off for nine years McDermott allegedly disappeared following a 2005 fishing trip off the Californian coast 213 Newton John was in Australia at her Gaia Retreat amp Spa at the time of McDermott s disappearance 214 A United States Coast Guard investigation based on then available evidence and released in 2008 suggest ed McDermott was lost at sea 215 216 with a friend telling investigators McDermott had appeared sad though not despondent after their breakup 217 In April 2010 a private investigator hired by an American television program claimed that McDermott is alive and had faked his death for a life insurance payout but did not provide proof beyond their own statement that they were confident 218 Unsubstantiated claims have been made particularly in Australian tabloids that McDermott is living in Mexico 219 In the mid 1990s Newton John met John Easterling founder and president of the Amazon Herb Company At the time they were both married to other people Later they started dating and eventually married in an Incan spiritual ceremony in Peru on 21 June 2008 followed by a legal ceremony nine days later 30 June 2008 on Jupiter Island Florida 220 Residences and citizenship Edit Although principally raised in Australia she remained a British subject through her childhood and did not formally become an Australian citizen until 1981 with an application that was expedited by the then prime minister Malcolm Fraser 221 After relocating from Britain to America in 1974 Newton John set up residence in Malibu California where for 40 years she owned several properties including a horse ranch and beach houses 222 223 In June 2009 Newton John and her second husband John Easterling purchased a new 4 1 million home in Jupiter Inlet Florida 224 In 2013 a contractor named Christopher Pariseleti committed suicide on the estate which at the time was up for sale 225 Following the death on the premises the property lingered on and off the market for two years but was eventually sold in 2015 to a Swedish advertising executive for 5 1 million 226 In 2015 the couple purchased a 5 3 million 12 acre horse ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley outside Santa Barbara It was offered for sale in 2019 227 but not sold and she was living there at the time of her death In 2019 Newton John sold her 187 acre Australian farm which she had owned for nearly 40 years and is located near Byron Bay in New South Wales 228 The Dalwood estate sold for 4 6 million in 1980 Newton John had paid 622 000 for the property which had additional land adjoined in both 1983 and in 2002 229 When asked in 2017 whether she considered herself to be a British Australian or American citizen she said I am still Australian 230 In December 2019 she expressed As a girl born in Cambridge England I am very proud of my British ancestry and so appreciative to be recognized in this way by the United Kingdom 231 232 233 234 Illness and death EditIn May 2017 it was announced that Newton John s breast cancer had returned and metastasised to her lower back 235 Her back pains had initially been diagnosed as sciatica 236 She subsequently revealed this was actually her third bout with breast cancer as she had a recurrence of the disease in 2013 in addition to her initial 1992 diagnosis 237 With the 2017 recurrence the cancer had spread to her bones and progressed to stage IV 238 Newton John experienced significant pain from the metastatic bone lesions and had spoken of using cannabis oil to ease her pain She was an advocate for the use of medical cannabis 239 her daughter Chloe owns a cannabis farm in Oregon 237 Newton John died on 8 August 2022 at age 73 at her home in the Santa Ynez Valley of California 240 241 Tributes were paid by John Travolta Barbra Streisand Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and many other celebrities 242 243 As a mark of respect Melbourne and Sydney lit up many of their landmarks 244 In September 2022 Newton John s family held a small and very private memorial service in California for the singer who asked to be cremated and have her ashes scattered in Byron Bay on her Santa Ynez ranch and in other places that I love 245 246 247 The State of Victoria offered Newton John s family a state funeral which her niece Tottie Goldsmith accepted 248 249 Newton John s Australian memorial service hosted by David Campbell was held on 26 February 2023 at Hamer Hall 250 and included eulogies from her husband and daughter a testimonial to her strength of character optimism and magnanimity by television personality Richard Wilkins montages of her career family life and wellness centre a medley of her hits performed by Delta Goodrem and pre recorded video tributes from Elton John Mariah Carey Barry Gibb and Nicole Kidman 251 Awards and honours EditMain article List of awards and honours received by Olivia Newton JohnDiscography EditMain articles Olivia Newton John albums discography Olivia Newton John singles discography and Olivia Newton John videography If Not for You 1971 252 253 Olivia 1972 254 Let Me Be There 1973 255 Long Live Love 1974 256 257 Have You Never Been Mellow 1975 258 259 Clearly Love 1975 260 261 Come on Over 1976 262 263 Don t Stop Believin 1976 264 265 Making a Good Thing Better 1977 266 267 Totally Hot 1978 268 269 Physical 1981 270 271 Soul Kiss 1985 272 273 The Rumour 1988 274 275 Warm and Tender 1989 276 277 Gaia One Woman s Journey 1994 278 279 Back with a Heart 1998 280 281 Tis the Season 2000 with Vince Gill 282 283 2 2002 284 285 Indigo Women of Song 2004 286 287 Stronger Than Before 2005 288 289 Grace and Gratitude 2006 290 291 Christmas Wish 2007 292 293 A Celebration in Song 2008 294 295 This Christmas 2012 with John Travolta 296 297 Liv On 2016 298 299 Friends for Christmas 2016 with John Farnham 300 301 Filmography EditYear Title Role Notes1965 Funny Things Happen Down Under Olivia 302 1970 Toomorrow Liv 303 1972 The Case Olivia Television film1978 Grease Sandy Olsson 304 1980 Xanadu Kira 304 1983 Two of a Kind Debbie Wylder 304 1988 She s Having a Baby Herself Uncredited 305 1990 A Mom for Christmas Amy Miller Television film 304 1991 Madonna Truth or Dare Herself Documentary 304 1994 A Christmas Romance Julia Stonecypher Television film 304 1996 It s My Party Lina Bingham 306 2000 Sordid Lives Bitsy Mae Harling 304 2001 The Wilde Girls Jasmine Wilde Television film 304 2010 1 a Minute Herself 307 2010 Score A Hockey Musical Hope Gordon 304 2011 A Few Best Men Barbara Ramme 304 2017 Sharknado 5 Global Swarming Orion Television film 304 2020 The Very Excellent Mr Dundee Olivia 304 Television EditYear Title Performance Notes1963 New Faces Herself Contestant Australian TV series1963 The Kevin Dennis Auditions Herself Australian TV series1964 Sunnyside Up Herself Australian TV series1964 Teen Scene Herself Australian TV series1964 1965 Sing Sing Sing Herself Australian TV series1964 The Kevin Dennis Show Herself Australian TV series1964 Teentime Ten Herself Australian TV series1964 1965 The Happy Show Herself Co host Lovely Livvy Australian TV series1965 Boomeride Herself sings When I Grow Up Crawl Baby Crawl Australian TV series1965 1966 The Go Show Herself Australian TV series 16 episodes1965 Kommotion Herself Australian TV series1965 1966 Time for Terry Herself Australian TV series1966 Dick Emery Show Herself BBC TV series UK1967 It s That Time Herself Australian TV series1967 Pat And Olivia Herself amp Pat Carroll Australian TV special1967 News Conference Herself Australian TV series1967 The Young Entertainers Herself Australian TV series1968 Bandstand Herself sings Here There And Everywhere Today I Can t Do Without You Today with Pat Carroll Australian TV series1969 ABC News Report Herself amp Pat Carroll Australian TV series1970 The Cliff Richard Show Herself TV series UK 1 episode1971 1972 disco Herself sings If Not For You Banks Of The Ohio TV series GERMANY 2 episodes1971 Grand Amphi Herself sings Love Song TV series FRANCE 1 episode1971 The Golden Shot Herself TV series UK 1 episode1971 Getaway With Cliff Herself TV special UK1971 Lift Off with Ayshea Herself TV series UK 1 episode1971 GTK Herself TV series Australia 1 episode1971 15 Years Of Channel Nine Herself sings If Not For You Banks Of The Ohio TV special Australia1972 Top of the Pops Herself sings What Is Life TV series UK 2 episodes1972 The Case Herself BBC TV film with Cliff Richard amp Tim Brooke Taylor 308 309 310 1972 Sacha s In Town Herself TV series UK 2 episodes1972 The Dean Martin Show Herself sings If Just A Little Lovin True Love with Dean Martin TV series US 1 episode1972 The Harry Secombe Show Herself sings Take Me Home Country Roads TV series US 1 episode1972 Top of the Pops Herself sings Take Me Home Country Roads TV series UK 1 episode1972 The Reg Varney Revue Herself sings1974 Eurovision Song Contest Herself United Kingdom Entry 4th Place 311 312 1976 A Special Olivia Newton John Herself ABC special 313 314 1977 Only Olivia Herself BBC special 315 316 1978 Olivia Herself ABC special Olivia Guests Abba and Andy Gibb 317 318 319 320 1980 Hollywood Nights Herself ABC special 321 322 323 1982 Let s Get Physical Herself ABC special 324 325 Saturday Night Live Herself Host Also musical guest 304 Olivia in Concert Herself HBO special 326 327 Olivia Herself Australian TV special1988 Olivia Down Under Herself HBO special 328 1990 Timeless Tales from Hallmark Herself Host 6 episodes 329 330 1995 The Man from Snowy River Joanna Walker Recurring role 3 episodes 331 332 333 Ned and Stacey Herself Episode Reality Check 334 335 336 Is This Your Life Herself Extended interview with Andrew Neil on Channel 4 in the UK 337 1997 Tracey Takes On Herself Episode Childhood 338 Murphy Brown Herself Episode I Hear a Symphony 304 339 340 341 2001 Bette Herself Episode The Invisible Mom 304 342 343 344 2001 Good Morning America Herself Guest with Kelly Preston amp Nancy Chuda TV series US 1 episode2001 The Rosie O Donnell Show Herself Guest with Kelly Preston TV series US 1 episode2001 Fox News In The Morning Herself Guest with Kelly Preston amp Nancy Chuda TV series US 1 episode2001 Sue McIntosh Presents Olivia Newton John Herself Guest TV series AUSTRALIA 1 episode2001 Top Ten Herself TV series UK 1 episode2001 Behind The Music Herself TV series US 1 episode2001 Not Under My Roof Herself Video US2002 Rove Live Herself Guest TV series AUSTRALIA 1 episode2002 Good Morning Australia Herself Guest with Pat Farrar TV series AUSTRALIA 1 episode2002 Today Herself Guest with Chloe amp Matt Lattanzi at Hair musical premiere in Melbourne TV series AUSTRALIA 1 episode2002 Burke s Backyard Herself Celebrity Gardener TV series AUSTRALIA 1 episode2002 VH 1 Behind The Movie Grease Herself TV series US 1 episode2002 Vh 1 Where Are They Now Herself TV series US 1 episode2002 This Is Your Life Helen Reddy Herself TV series AUSTRALIA 1 episode2002 The 16th Annual ARIA Awards Herself Aria Hall Of Fame Inductee TV special AUSTRALIA2002 Australians Unite Bali Appeal Herself TV special AUSTRALIA2002 An Audience With John Farnham Herself amp Sue McIntosh Audience members TV special AUSTRALIA2002 Farmhand Concert For Drought Relief Herself sings I Honestly Love You TV special AUSTRALIA2002 Mornings Herself Guest TV series AUSTRALIA 1 episode2002 A Night with Olivia Herself Channel 9 special 345 2002 Rove Live Herself Guest TV series AUSTRALIA 1 episode2002 After They Were Famous Grease Herself TV series UK 1 episode2002 The Making Of 2 Herself TV special AUSTRALIA2002 One World with Olivia Newton John Herself Host TV series US 3 episodes2003 Live in Japan 2003 Herself BS Hi special 346 2003 07 American Idol Herself Guest Judge 3 episodes 347 2004 This Is Your Life Herself Australian TV series2005 Olivia Newton John Gold Herself Australian TV special2008 Coming Home Herself BBC Wales Documentary UKSordid Lives The Series Bitsy Mae Harling Supporting role 12 episodes 304 2009 Kathy Griffin My Life on the D List Herself Episode Fly the Super Gay Skies 348 2010 Glee Herself Episodes Bad Reputation Journey to Regionals 304 349 350 351 352 2015 RuPaul s Drag Race Herself Guest Judge Episode Glamazonian Airways 304 Dancing with the Stars Herself Guest Judge Episode Famous Dances Night 353 2022 Olivia Newton John at the BBC Herself BBC2 Documentary UKTours EditHeadlining If Not for You Tour 1972 354 355 356 Clearly Love Tour 1975 357 Love Performance Tour 1976 358 Totally Hot World Tour 1978 359 Physical Tour 1982 1983 360 Greatest Hits Tour 1999 361 One Woman s Live Journey Tour 1999 362 Millennium Tour 2000 363 30 Musical Years Tour 2001 364 Heartstrings World Tour 2002 2005 365 366 367 368 369 2006 World Tour 2006 370 Grace and Gratitude Tour 2006 371 372 373 Body Heart amp Spirit Tour 2007 374 375 An Evening with Olivia Newton John 2007 2009 376 377 2010 World Tour 2010 378 379 2011 United States Tour 2011 380 A Summer Night with Olivia Newton John 2012 2013 381 Co headlining The Main Event Tour with John Farnham and Anthony Warlow 1998 128 Two Strong Hearts Tour with John Farnham 2015 175 176 Liv On In Concert with Beth Nielsen Chapman and Amy Sky 2017 180 Residency show Summer Nights 2014 2016 382 383 See also EditList of artists who reached number one on the US dance chart List of best selling music artists List of British Grammy winners and nominees List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones by Australian artists List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards Olivia 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Event tour was a homecoming of sorts for Olivia Newton John Away from the stage for some years she returned with brothers in arms Anthony Warlow and John Farnham to perform a truly spectacular hybrid of the three artists back catalogue including all their greatest hits The album was recorded live at the Melbourne Park show and features Age Of Reason Newton John Farnham and Warlow Hopelessly Devoted To You Newton John You re The One That I Want Farnham and Newton John If Not For You Newton John Farnham and Warlow and Let Me Be There Newton John Farnham and Warlow Whammo Homepage 29 August 2004 Archived from the original on 29 August 2004 Retrieved 8 August 2019 australian charts com Discography John Farnham australian charts com Retrieved 8 August 2019 ARIA Charts Accreditations 1998 Albums aria com au Retrieved 8 August 2019 ARIA Awards 2008 History Winners by Artist 13 February 2009 Archived from the original on 13 February 2009 Retrieved 8 August 2019 ARIA and PPCA remember Olivia 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moments Deseret News Retrieved 13 August 2022 Newton John s film and TV appearances were scarce in the 2000s but she did a make a rare guest appearance on the hit show Glee In Season 1 Episode 17 a video of Sue Sylvester Jane Lynch dancing along to Physical gets leaked and subsequently ridiculed The video catches the attention of Newton John playing herself who enlists Sue s help to recreate her iconic Physical music video This guest appearance was a delight to fans who loved seeing Newton John recreating Physical after over 30 years Herrera Monica 5 May 2010 Olivia Newton John Gets Physical on Glee with Sue Sylvester Billboard Retrieved 13 August 2022 Physical by Glee Cast and Olivia Newton John Music Charts acharts co Tuned In to Olivia Newton John ABC7 Chicago 17 April 2010 Retrieved 13 August 2022 Olivia s appeal seems to be timeless With a career spanning more than four decades she is still a vibrant creative individual that is adored by fans across the world Throughout her career the much loved star who danced with Gene Kelly in Xanadu hosted the popular internationally syndicated Wild Life television show Wild Life 1996 The Screen Guide www screenaustralia gov au Screen Australia 1996 Retrieved 13 August 2022 Snowy River The McGregor Saga Season 2 Episode 8 Rotten Tomatoes 1995 Retrieved 13 August 2022 Episode info Someone tries to prevent Matt Andrew Clarke from helping Joanna find her long lost father Guest star Olivia Newton John Snowy River The McGregor Saga Season 2 Episode 9 Rotten Tomatoes 1995 Retrieved 13 August 2022 Episode info Kathleen Wendy Hughes joins Joanna in the search for the half brother she never knew Guest star Olivia Newton John Snowy River The McGregor Saga episode guide Series 2 www australiantelevision net Retrieved 13 August 2022 Olivia Newton John and the Sydney Symphony Olivia Newton John Release Info AllMusic Olivia Newton John Olivia s Hits Live Album Reviews Songs amp More AllMusic via www allmusic com Dufaut Dominique 7 January 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