She made her first sustained impression on the charts starting in 1973 as a pop-country singer. Newton-John landed her first hit in 1971 with a wistful cover version of Bob Dylan’s “If Not for You.” The song reached No. She also sang with the group Toomorrow in a British movie of the same name. She sang with Pat Carroll as Pat & Olivia.

At age 16, she won a talent contest trip to England. 26, 1948, in Cambridge, England, but was raised in Melbourne, Australia. The film soundtrack spent 12 weeks atop the Billboard 200 and wound up with a Grammy nomination for album of the year.

Newton-John also starred with John Travolta in the blockbuster Grease, which was the top-grossing film of 1978. 1 with Tapestry (1971) and her follow-up, Music (1972). The former Brill Building songwriter turned solo superstar hit No. At that time, Carole King was the only other female solo artist to achieve that feat. She topped the chart with both If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and her follow-up, Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). In 1975, she became just the second female solo artist to land back-to-back No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Physical,” which was only the second song in Hot 100 history (following Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life”) to log 10 weeks at No. She won a Grammy for music video of the year for her 1982 collection “Olivia Physical.” She was only the second artist to win a Grammy for video, following Michael Nesmith for “Michael Nesmith in Elephant Parts.” She was also one of the first artists to have significant success in video.

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