Olivia Newton-John Tickets

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Born in England in 1948, the daughter of a Cambridge professor and the granddaughter of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Newton-John was off to Australia by age five, and this move was her ticket to become known as a singer and TV personality before she turned 16. In Melbourne she met John Farrar, who would produce the majority of her recordings, including her first U.S. single, 1971's 'If Not for You,' written by Bob Dylan.

At the end of 1973, Newton-John launched a string of five straight gold singles, beginning with 'Let Me Be There,' which won her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Two singles later, 'I Honestly Love You' won her two Grammys after it became her first U.S. pop Number One hit in late 1974. Her next single, 'Have You Never Been Mellow,' reached gold and Number One as well.

Where does one go from there? After a brief respite from the Top Ten, Newton-John joined forces with John Travolta in 1978 on the most successful musical film of all time, GREASE. After topping the charts with the platinum single 'You're the One That I Want,' two more singles from GREASE went gold, and one of them, 'Hopelessly Devoted to You,' received an Oscar nomination.