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Olivia Newton-John died past twelvemonth pursuing a agelong conflict with cancer
By Kathryn Armstrong
BBC News
Thousands of radical person paid their respects to the precocious Australian histrion and vocalist Olivia Newton-John astatine a authorities memorial successful her location metropolis of Melbourne.
The 73-year-old died successful August successful the United States pursuing a agelong conflict with bosom cancer.
Newton-John was champion known for her relation arsenic Sandy successful the iconic 1978 movie Grease and for philharmonic hits specified arsenic Physical.
Her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, has said that her bosom is "broken successful two".
"I basal present earlier you truthful desperately wanting to consciousness beardown and assured and talk eloquently but the information is, I consciousness similar a small miss mislaid without her mother," said Ms Lattanzi portion warring backmost tears astatine the work astatine Hamer Hall.
"She was my harmless space, my guide, my biggest instrumentality and the world beneath my feet."
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Image caption,Olivia Newton-John's daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, said her bosom was "broken successful two" pursuing her mother's death
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Image caption,John Easterling, said each time with his precocious woman was "a spot of magic"
Newton-John's widower, John Easterling, besides became affectional portion talking astir his precocious wife.
"We'd each had immoderate hard times successful our beingness earlier similar everyone has and we're conscionable talking astir however fortunate we were to person recovered each other," helium said.
"Every time with Olivia was supernatural. Every time with Olivia was a spot of magic."
The vocalist Dannii Minogue said that Newton-John was the crushed wherefore she started performing and that the thought of her decease was inactive sinking in.
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Image caption,Delta Goodrem sang a medley of Olivia Newton-John's songs astatine the extremity of the memorial service
Other celebrities paid tribute to the precocious prima successful video recordings played to the assemblage astatine the memorial, including Sir Elton John, Mariah Carey and Pink.
Sir Elton described her arsenic a "wonderful unit of nature", portion Dolly Parton, who sang with Newton-John respective times, said she considered a person arsenic good arsenic a chap performer.
"Olivia, to punctuation 1 of your songs - I honestly emotion you," said Parton.
The work ended with Australian vocalist Delta Goodrem singing a medley of Newton-John's hits.
Goodrem said being capable to observe her beingness was "incredibly special".
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