Olivia sang ‘ Che-mo dropout.’ She was so quick-witted, you know?” “Without missing a beat, Olivia began singing the “Beauty School Dropout,” song from Grease, but she changed the words. When she asked Lang whether she’d had chemo as part of her treatment, Lang told her she had but opted to stop it earlier than doctors recommended. Lang says Newton-John had a great sense of humor.
She said, ‘Olivia, this is Kelly and she’s had breast cancer, too.’ And so, Olivia and I started talking about that our first time together.” “I met Olivia through our mutual friend Barry Gibb, through Barry’s wife, Linda. “I think every woman who goes through breast cancer, when they find out about one another’s journey, they find themselves with a different connection than normal, it’s like a sisterhood,” Lang says. Lang and Newton-John were close friends who bonded, initially because both had battled breast cancer. The album has Dolly and Olivia singing “Jolene,” Paul Anka and Olivia paired for “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” and Lang and Newton-John together for “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” just to name a few.
Yet she remained proud of her roots: her father was an MI5 officer who worked on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park during the war her maternal grandfather was the Nobel prize-winning physicist Max Born, who sought exile in the UK from Nazi Germany on the eve of the second world war.Cover of Olivia Newton-John duets album "Just The Two Of Us" set for release May 5th Photo by Robert Lynden, Cover Image Courtesy of Primary Wave Music The film remains a much-loved staple of the small screen and the singalong circuit its soundtrack is one of the top 10 biggest sellers of all time.īorn in Cambridge, England, in 1948, Newton-John and her family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, when she was six. Newton-John’s performance was nominated for a Golden Globe and she performed Hopelessly Devoted to You at the 1979 Oscars. Grease was the biggest box-office hit of the year, and its soundtrack album spent 12 consecutive weeks at No 1 in the US. The role was also altered to accommodate her Australian accent. Offered the lead role of Sandy, sweet summer squeeze of cool cat John Travolta, after meeting the producer at a dinner party, the then 29-year-old Newton-John had to be persuaded to take the part, worried she was too old to play a high-school senior. Her prominence as an activist for research and better treatment will likely remain as key an element of her legacy as her showbiz career, which included four Grammy wins and the sale of more than 100m records.īut it was Grease, the perky 1978 adaptation of the Broadway musical for which she will be most fondly remembered. Newton-John’s daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, paid tribute to her mother with a selection of images on Instagram, including pictures of Lattanzi as a baby.Īfter her first cancer diagnosis, Newton-John became a prominent campaigner, setting up the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Research Centre in Melbourne. Yours from the moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!” We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Travolta posted a heartfelt message on social media, writing: “My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better. Tributes to Newton-John began appearing shortly after her family’s statement. Hopelessly devoted … Olivia Newton-John as Sandy and John Travolta as Danny in 1978 smash hit Grease.
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