http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBo_eDreKtkOlivia Newton-John Reveals Her Breast Cancer Has Returned, Cancels Tour
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/olivia-newton-john-reveals-her-breast-cancer-has-returned-cancels-tour/vp-BBBJZlu
For the Grease generation, Olivia Newton-John's illness is hard to accept
The news that the Grease star's cancer has returned grips women of a certain age who grew up looking to her as something of a lodestar of our own happiness
I know it so well. Every frame of it. Even now, if I chance upon a screening of it on TV, or call up key moments on YouTube, the magic still remains.
A film critic once called Grease “an ode to young love that never gets old,” which is a pretty fair description. There is Olivia Newton-John playing a teenager (she was actually 29 at the time of filming) skipping across the school yard in that yellow cardigan, her knowing refrain (“He showed off, splashing around”) a hilarious counterpart to John Travolta’s braggadocio (“I saved her life, she nearly drowned”).
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/olivia-newton-john-cancer-tour-cancelled-grease-generation-hard-to-accept-a7765351.html
So, let's hope for her recovery, I've seen these kinds of relapses before.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_rItLPTXcA bit of a children's song to me, because we all learned this, a bit of their signature song as well, I thought.
Just a great song written by Gordon Lightfoot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJ0e2SaVVQBirthday related and honorable mention to the Style Council which was the post-Jam band, Style Council grew out of the Jam... not sure of the details.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw2c_3D467oThe Jam do a good version of David Watts (Kinks), the Jam would probably fit into being called New Wave, I have friends who are really big fans of theirs'