Hopelessly Devoted:
Olivia Newton-John
As described in a documentary by a news organization: The record for the biggest hit of the 1980s belongs to Olivia Newton-John (for “Physical”) (Billboard ranked it as “number one of its “Top 100 Songs of the 1980s” “, and holding the record for staying Number 1 in the charts longest (at ten weeks- plus) for that entire decade)
not Michael Jackson, not Madonna, not U2, it was her,
forever, devotedly hers
Before that,
Here: Olivia Newton-John at 29 years old playing high-school-student Sandy in “Grease”,
the highest box-office-grossing movie musicale OF ALL TIME
Here is the live rendition at the Grammys
… and here at 68 years old, on her third cancer diagnosis, belting, live-singing, mesmerizing a crowd of thousands
