On the Death of Olivia Newton-John: The Greatest Pop Singer of the ’70s

Olivia Newton-John, the biggest pop singer of the ’70s and beauty epitome, died Monday (August 8) in Southern California at the age of 73. A memoir from ROLLING STONE editor Arne Willander.

The excitement that prevailed in 1978 about the film “Grease”, starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, is only inadequately described by the term “hype”. Back then they said “fever”. It was the beginning of a phase up until the early 1980s in which Olivia Newton-John managed everything as if by magic. She shortened her name to Olivia: just ONE woman…

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