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Dame Olivia Newton-John (September 26, 1948 - August 8, 2022) was a British-Australian singer, actress, and activist. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included five number one hits and another ten Top Ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and two Billboard 200 number one albums, If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). Eleven of her singles (including two Platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two Platinum and four 2× Platinum) have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With global sales of more than 100 million records, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists from the second half of the 20th century to the present. In 1978, Newton-John starred in the musical film Grease, whose soundtrack remains one of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music. It features two major hit duets with co-star John Travolta: “You're the One That I Want“ – which ranks as one of the best-selling singles of all time – and “Summer Nights“. Her signature solo recordings include the Record of the Year Grammy winner “I Honestly Love You“ (1974) and “Physical“ (1981) – Billboard's Top Hot 100 Single of the 1980s. Newton-John married her long-time partner, actor Matt Lattanzi, in December 1984. They had a daughter, Chloe Rose, in 1986, but they divorced amicably in 1995. The couple remained friends. In 2008, she married John Easterling, founder and president of the Amazon Herb Company, in an Incan spiritual ceremony in Peru. Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. She eventually went into remission, but the disease returned in 2013. It went into remission for the second time, but, unfortunately, it was announced that breast cancer had returned and metastasised to her lower back in 2017. She died five years later at her home in California aged 73. Newton-John was an activist for environmental and animal rights causes, and advocated for breast cancer research.
