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"Twist of Fate" is a song recorded by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for the soundtrack to the 1983 film Two of a Kind. Written by Peter Beckett and Steve Kipner and produced by David Foster, the song was released as the first single from the album on 21 October 1983. It reached the top five on the pop charts in Australia, Canada ...
Two of a Kind is a 1983 American romantic fantasy crime comedy-drama film directed by John Herzfeld and starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The film reunited Travolta and Newton-John who had appeared together in 1978's Grease. [1] The original musical score was composed by Patrick Williams. Travolta plays a cash-strapped inventor ...
Two of a Kind: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album of the film of the same name, released in 1983 by MCA Records and featuring four songs by the film's star Olivia Newton-John, including a duet with her co-star, John Travolta, and the top five hit "Twist of Fate".
Even most of Newton-John’s fans might have missed the fact that she covered the Divinyls’ saucy alt-pop standard. That band’s hit ’90s original was a song of true double-entendres ...
Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British and Australian singer and actress. [3] With over 100 million records sold, [4] Newton-John was one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all-time.
The first of her five Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s, "I Honestly Love You" showed Olivia Newton-John's early ability to elevate top 40 material.
It was directed by David Mallet and included on a video collection of Newton-John's songs from Two of a Kind titled Twist of Fate. In a review of the collection for Billboard , Paul Grein wrote of the duet, "The video is a soft-focus valentine, which suits the wispy nature of the song, but also serves to make the overall package excessively ...
In 1983, another music video collection was released, Twist of Fate. The music videos are from Two of a Kind soundtrack ("Take a Chance" is a duet with John Travolta, who appeared in the music video), starring Newton-John. The music video for "Twist of Fate" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.