The Grammy award-winning singer found enduring fame in the film Grease.
The singer and campaigner became Dame Olivia in 2020 in recognition of her music and charity work
Her mother was the daughter of the German Nobel laureate, Max Born, and had fled with her family when the Nazis came to power in 1933. When Turpie was recruited to present The Go!! Show on ATV 10 in Melbourne, Newton-John became a regular guest, miming to pre-recorded covers of British and US pop hits.
There was disappointment when her second album, Olivia, failed to make an impact, although a single, What is Life, made the UK Top 20.It was the country-flavoured album Let Me Be There that finally broke her in the lucrative US market. The eponymous single won her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocalist.
By 1977 her career was faltering. She failed to find chart success with new material although a compilation album, Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits, made number seven in the country charts.A meeting with producer Alan Carr saw her offered the part of Sandy in a film version of the musical, Grease.
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