![]() They played star-crossed polar-opposite lovers who become the king and queen of Rydell High School, with Newton-John’s Sandy Dumbrowski getting an extreme makeover from the prim, ponytailed new girl at school into a leather-clad stunner near the end. With school scenes shot at Venice High and Marshall High in Los Angeles, it combined the era’s 1950s nostalgia with the burgeoning disco movement and made film stars of Newton-John and Travolta. Grease was a sensation with it premiered in June 1978. Olivia Newton-John, and John Travolta in ‘Grease,’ 1978 Everett Collection She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Newton-John won four Grammy Awards among a dozen nominations during her career: “Let Me Be There” took Best Country Performance, Female, in 1974 “I Honestly Love You” won Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, the following year and “Heart Attack” took Video of the Year in 1983. It also spurred a physical-fitness craze, with its music video featuring Newton-John - in a period-defining outfit that included a leotard and headband - cavorting among hardbody models and chunky schlubs just trying to work off a few dozen extra pounds. 1s: “I Honestly Love You,” “Have You Never Been Mellow,” “You’re the One That I Want” (with John Travolta, from Grease), “Magic” (from the 1980 film Xanadu) and her biggest smash, “Physical.” The latter topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and was the No. In any case, “Physical” remains one of the great songs of the early 80s, and gave us a new Olivia Newton-John, but still a world-class star.A UK native who was raised in Australia, Newton-John began her career as a country singer but quickly crossed over to pop with the late-1973 hit “Let Me Be There.” It was the first of 15 Top 10 U.S. There were also remote areas of the United States where local radio stations refused to broadcast the song because of the lyrics, which, however, were very explicit. The song was a hit first in the United States, probably thanks to the spell that Olivia Newton-John’s name still exercised, and then also in Europe and many other countries, such as New Zealand, Australia, Canada. But luckily there’s still one for Olivia he isn’t quite as toned and muscular as the others and is still a bit overweight, but in the end he’s what Olivia was looking for. There’s a little detail, which might be less ironic today than it sounded in 1981: those muscular guys come out in pairs holding hands with each other. After all, we were in the full era of aerobic gym! And so we all remember the video set in a gym where Olivia tries in every way to get a group of mid aged fat men back in shape, without results.īut when Olivia goes out to the locker, without her the gentlemen get busy, and when she comes back she no longer recognizes them: they are slimmed down, much more muscular, and they look even younger. If the title of the song was quite explicit about the type of physicality, the video totally changed its scope and referred it to the tone of the human body. The video for “Physical” was instrumental in the song’s success. ![]() Yes, because as we know MTV had just started its broadcasts, on August 1 of that same year, and so if you had a good video there were very good chances that they would broadcast again and again, because they really hadn’t many good videos!! ![]() It must be said that Lukather had the same feeling also for other famous songs by Toto, which instead became planetary hits, such as “Africa” and “ Rosanna“, songs on which at first he would not bet a penny.Īnd so “Physical” (the original title was supposed to be “Let’s get physical”) was released on September 28, 1981, two days after Olivia’s 33rd birthday, and it was one of the best moments to release a song if it had a good video. Actually, she wasn’t the only one with this opinion! Even Steve Lukather, Toto’s guitarist who performed the song’s guitar solos, was quite direct in saying that he did not believe in this song, that it had no chance of success. Olivia initially declined because the song seemed a little too cheeky and explicit, but luckily she changed her mind. They were thinking of Rod Stewart, but one of Olivia’s managers heard the song (Kipner himself was a great friend of Olivia’s) and decided to propose it to her. In 1981, the authors Terry Shaddick and Steve Kipner wrote a rather explicit song, thinking of a male performer who was relevant to the female audience. Three years after the worldwide success of Grease, which was released in the summer of 1978, Sandy, who by the end of the film had already transformed with leather clothes and seductive attitudes, is now definitely Olivia, a singer and complete star ready to conquer the world again. ![]() ![]() Olivia Newton-John was one of the absolute stars of the early 80s. ![]()
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