Olivia Newton-John’s Transformation Into Pop Royalty When the singer smudged her classy image, she “unlocked something new that shot her to the top of pop’s Olympus,” our critic writes: “The vestal vamp.”
Olivia Newton-John, Pop Singer and ‘Grease’ Star, Dies at 73 She began her career as an innocent purveyor of middle-of-the-road pop but later adopted a bad-girl persona.