![]() ![]() (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO YOU") But it's a choice how you deal with it.ĭEL BARCO: To help others stay calm, Olivia Newton-John and her business partners opened a luxury health and wellness retreat and spa in Australia. I mean, I'm human, and I go through fear and all the things everyone going through a cancer or any other difficult diagnosis. You know, you can be a victim, or you can be a winner and enjoy your life. NEWTON-JOHN: What you think creates your reality. On "The Today Show," she said her positive attitude helped. She faced several more bouts of cancer with alternative therapies, medical marijuana, humor and optimism. After other hits and other movies, she dropped out of the spotlight to raise her daughter and to devote herself to promoting environmentalism and breast cancer awareness after she was diagnosed with the disease. So then I said, well, you know what? I think we need to make it more about exercise.ĭEL BARCO: So for her music video, she wore a sweatband, leotards and legwarmers. It's too over the top, and it's too risque. NEWTON-JOHN: I thought it was a great song but then had a panic attack and called my manager and said, you can't put this out. Let me hear your body talk.ĭEL BARCO: Newton-John told NPR over the phone in 2012 that the song made her uncomfortable. NEWTON-JOHN: (Singing) Let's get physical, physical. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LET'S GET PHYSICAL") The following year, she got two Grammys for "I Honestly Love You." Newton-John continued with mellow pop songs before getting her fourth Grammy in 1982 for the suggestive single "Let's Get Physical." MIKE SAMMES: (Singing) Oh, let me be there.ĭEL BARCO: For "Let Me Be There," she won her first Grammy Award in 1973. NEWTON-JOHN: (Singing) All I ask you is let me be there. She ended up recording country pop songs in the U.S. She was a regular on local radio and TV shows before winning a talent contest. UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: (Singing) Yes, indeed.ĭEL BARCO: Olivia Newton-John was born in England in 1948 and grew up in Australia, where she started her career as a teenager. JOHN TRAVOLTA AND OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: (As Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, singing) Oh, yes, indeed. Her duet with Travolta was a bestselling single. JOHN TRAVOLTA AND OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: (As Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, singing) Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey.ĭEL BARCO: The soundtrack for "Grease" was wildly successful. UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: (Singing) You are the one I want. JOHN TRAVOLTA AND OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: (As Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, singing) You're the one that I want. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT") And how could you say no to John Travolta?ĭEL BARCO: Travolta got her to wear skintight pants and a leather jacket to play Sandy as a cool girl by the time they sang together at the end of the movie. And when John came to see me at my house. NEWTON-JOHN: I couldn't do an American accent, and I was too old, and I had all these reasons why I couldn't do it. She was 28 years old playing a high school student. So I said, the perfect Sandy, the ultimate Sandy would be Olivia Newton-John.ĭEL BARCO: But the Australian singer told "The Today Show" in 2019 she'd been skeptical. TRAVOLTA: I wanted this girl bad in "Grease" because I had done the show on Broadway. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW") ![]() UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: (As the T-Birds, singing) Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well, oh.ĭEL BARCO: On TV's "Merv Griffin Show" in 1981, Travolta said he lobbied hard for Newton-John to make her film debut as his costar. JOHN TRAVOLTA AND OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: (As Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, singing) Summer days drifting away to, oh, those summer nights. TRAVOLTA: (As Danny Zuko) What are you - what are you doing here? OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: (As Sandy Olsson) Danny? MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: In the 1978 movie musical "Grease," Olivia Newton-John starred as the good girl Sandy Olsson, who falls for a bad boy played by John Travolta. NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports that the Australian singer was known for her sweet voice and her film roles, especially in "Grease." Singer Olivia Newton-John, one of the biggest pop stars in the 1970s and early '80s, has died. ![]()
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