RIP:Olivia Newton John Dead at 73 - loved "Grease"

[cyber888]

Wow .. RIP

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/olivia-newton-dead-grease-xanadu-1235336152/

 

[Dash man]

So young! RIP

 

[Car-Guy]

May she RIP

 

[eytonxav]

Had a real crush on Olivia, same age as me. Hate she had to go through such a long battle with cancer. RIP.

 

[powerplay]

So very sorry to read of her passing. Cancer is a Bxxxx!!

May she RIP

 

[MarieIG]

Have You Never Been Mellow . . .

 

[pb4uski]

Had a real crush on Olivia, same age as me. Hate she had to go through such a long battle with cancer. RIP.

+1 I was a big fan... she was a little older... and I recall seeing her in concert at the Boston Commons in 1982.

 

[Dtail]

Loved her in Grease. RIP.

 

[Texas Proud]

Had a real crush on Olivia, same age as me. Hate she had to go through such a long battle with cancer. RIP.

Had a crush also, but I am younger than her...


I saw her at the Houston Rodeo way back when... she was a good singer...

 

[audreyh1]

OK that’s shocking!

Wow, battled cancer for 30 years!

 

[Koolau]

I got to see her once in concert. Loved her from the first time I heard her.

I used to try to sing the base part for "Let Me Be There" - a BIT below my range.

But my all time favorite ONJ song was this one:

RIP

 

[Major Tom]

She passed on the same day that Xanadu was released, 42 years later.

RIP

 

[Midpack]

Voice of an angel, RIP.

 

[W2R]

Loved her in Grease. RIP.

+1

My favorite song of hers is the well known one she did with John Travolta in Grease:

A perfect embodiment of teenaged hormones! Hard to believe that somebody that alive would ever die.

 

[jollystomper]

Who can forget "Physical", considered very racy for its time? It helped change her image from "squeaky clean" to "somewhat racy" . She was reluctant to record it at first, but it became her biggest hit, #1 in the U.S. for 10 weeks.

RIP. At least, from the recent interview transcripts I read, she was at peace with facing death.

 

[steelyman]

“Hopelessly Devoted To You” and “You Light Up My Life” (Debby Boone) were permanent fixtures in an endless personal mental tape loop during high school.

 

[Koolau]

Who can forget "Physical", considered very racy for its time? It helped change her image from "squeaky clean" to "somewhat racy" . She was reluctant to record it at first, but it became her biggest hit, #1 in the U.S. for 10 weeks.

RIP. At least, from the recent interview transcripts I read, she was at peace with facing death.

I always thought this song was "racy" - her lower voice during parts of the song caught my ear. I really liked the change up.