Olivia newton john

Positivity during Cancer • Aussie actress and singer Olivia Newton-John says in a recent interview that she’s “doing well and [has] been for a while” despite living with stage four breast cancer. • Metastatic, or stage four, breast cancer is technically not curable, but with ongoing advancements in treatments and options to dramatically reduce symptoms, there are many reasons to be hopeful. • Known for her relentless positivity, Newton-John says your mind is a very important part of healing during a cancer journey, so trying to stay positive can really help. Living with advanced-stage cancer is not easy, but Olivia Newton-John continues to remind us that it can be done with a smile on your face. “I feel very, very grateful that I’m doing well and have been for a while,” she said. “I’m very lucky enough to be married to a wonderful man who works with plant medicine, and that I think has been helping me so much.” She’ll admit she never imagined living this long given her cancer diagnosis, but she credits a lot of her overall health to her dedication to mental health via “meditation, eating well, keeping a positive mind [and] obviously doing what you feel is right for your body.” “I think your mind is a very, very important part of your healing, so to stay really positive does help,” she said. Other advice Newton-John shared for people, in general, was to always look for any changes happening to your body – especially when it comes to the possibility of breast cancer. Getting...

In the late '70s and early '80s, Newton-John was one of the most recognizable celebrities in the world. She stole hearts in the 1978 blockbuster "Grease" and dominated the charts with songs like the 1981 hit "Physical," which was the No. 1 single of that decade, according to She is credited with In more recent years, however, Newton-John became best known as an advocate for breast cancer survivors, being one herself since first her first diagnosis in 1992. Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, in 1948 to a father, Brin, who was both a World War II hero with British military intelligence and a professor of German literature, and a mother, Irene, whose own father, physicist Max Born, would win a Nobel Prize six years later. But from an early age, it seemed she was not destined to follow into the family business of academia. After her father took a job at a college in Australia, the family moved to Melbourne when Newton-John was 5. Just a few years later, she won a talent contest on one of the country's most popular television shows, “Sing, Sing, Sing.” By the time she was 15, she had formed an all-girl group and later partnered with her friend Pat Carroll for the pop duo Pat & Olivia. But it would be as a solo artist, starting in 1966, that Newton-John would hit her true potential. She broke through on this side of the Pacific with her third solo album, "Let Me Be There," in 1973, with the title track earning the singer her first Grammy Award, for best female country p...

Farewell, Grease. Disco show tunes with Gene Kelly and ELO in Xanadu. Heavy-breathing rock odes to sex like “Magic” and “Make a Move On Me.” These are all reasons why we loved Olivia Newton-John — we honestly loved her — and that’s why pop connoisseurs are mourning for her today. Olivia could hop from genre to genre, but she threw herself into every style with the same effervescent hyper-glitz enthusiasm, which is why she never sounded the least bit phony. Before fans invented the terminology of stars having “eras,” Olivia perfected the concept, because she hit every stop on the radio dial, from ingenue to Xanadu. Every fan’s got a favorite ONJ phase, but for me it’s the Seventies AM-radio soft-rock Olivia, when she kept finding new ways to get her heart broken on hit after hit. No happy songs for this lass. She was the star of the Mellow Era who actually had the gall to use the word “mellow” in a song title — her Number One therapy session, No other singer could get away with the over-the-top misery of “I Honestly Love You.” Olivia confesses her doomed crush on somebody she can never have, in her breathy whisper. She humiliates herself line by line, resigned to her heartbreak, refusing to even entertain the idea this notion might not be a total disaster. (She doesn’t even give her crush a chance to think about it.) “If we had both been born, in another place and time / This moment might have ended with a kiss”— the way her voice trembles on that line is always a punch in ...