Olivia ...

[uwe]

She deserves a spot here. Some legacy.

[Pilgrim]

A nice person, by the accounts I have read.  R.I.P.

[westen44]

Most of what I listen to is rock, especially hard rock.  But Olivia Newton-John was a pop singer in a league of her own.  She was stunning and incomparable.  In my opinion, the only other pop artists that might be considered her peers are Linda Ronstadt and ABBA.  Personally, though, Olivia Newton-John was the one I preferred.  I didn't like that movie "Grease" that made her so famous.  I didn't like all of the syrupy lyrics to some pop songs.  But her talent transcended all of that. 

She has been sick for a long time.  Mentally, I tried to prepare for how this would end.  But my efforts seem to have been in vain.

[gearHed289]

RIP Olivia. A truly classy pop star.

[uwe]

Hard and heavy rock/heavy metal is the musical swamp of adolecent insecurities I surfaced from ...



and even at now 61, soon 62 it keeps clawing me back ...



... but I never lost sense for a good pop melody.



It probably has to do with the fact that the first music that registered with me in my childhood as something special originated from an English harbo(u)r town.

[TBird1958]

  73..........

Crap, that's like 9 years away. WTF happened? 

 

[uwe]

She'd been battling with cancer already decades ago - brave girl. Fought hard and was cured. But after a long pause it returned with a venegance (spread to her spine). Crap disease and still prevalent:

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics#:~:text=The%20cancer%20death%20rate%20(cancer,and%20135.7%20per%20100%2C000%20women).

Somehow, when I was a kid and cancer back then was pretty much a death warrant, I thought we would have a cure by now (but then I thought back then that we'd have flying cars and live on the bottom of the sea as well as on other planets by now as well). And while survival rates via treatment have much improved, we're a long way from a real cure. My cousin's husband had cancer diagnosed at 60 or so (never a smoker or drinker, not overweight, an athlete with his bicycle), he died within a year, no therapy worked on him and it spread highly aggressive all through his body within months. Even the doctors were surprised how quickly the disease ravaged through his body, so fast you couldn't even determine where it started first.

[westen44]

Paul Stanley said it best when he said Olivia Newton-John was "everyone's sweetheart." 

https://www.webisjericho.com/rockers-react-to-the-passing-of-olivia-newton-john/

Although I really liked her, I think I only bought one of her albums through the years.  I've helped to remedy that by ordering a double CD set a few hours ago.

[uwe]

The Chris Slade (holding her piggyback, with - albeit already slightly receding - hair too) connection was news to me, whole lotta Livvy on a highway to fame!



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Talk about a cult movie!

[westen44]

Olivia Newton-John meeting other stars.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/olivia-newton-john-photo-gallery/

[ajkula66]

Sad to see her go, and kudos for putting one hell of a fight the way she did.

RIP, fine lady.