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There's something about the passing of that feels like more than just the loss of someone who, by all accounts, was a very nice person. She symbolised an entire era, a whole cultural mood.
Xanadu was the first single I ever owned, bought with my 13th birthday money. The following year she topped the charts with Physical, combining the new craze for fitness with sex and resulting in one of the most jaw-droppingly tasteless music videos ever produced.
But she will, of course, be best remembered for the movie Grease.

When it was released in 1978, I had just started secondary school in . I seem to remember it took a while to reach our local cinema, but once it did, there was no stopping it.
Despite being a bespectacled swot in frumpy brown loafers (I already had size 7 feet, and BBC World News Today the only shoes my mother could find to fit me were, mortifyingly, men's), I suddenly found myself very popular, even with the older kids.
There's something about the passing of Olivia Newton-John (pictured here as the character Sandy in Grease) that feels like more than just the loss of someone who, by all accounts, was a very nice person.

She symbolised an entire era, a whole cultural mood
But Olivia Newton-John will, of course, be best remembered for the movie Grease (pictured here with her co-star John Travolta)
There is no doubt Grease spoke to my generation.