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  2. Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical - Wikipedia

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    Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical is an original musical written and produced in 1953 by Seventh Army Special Services in Germany, the first of the numerous stage musicals, film musicals and songs inspired in part by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan with its opening lines: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree

  3. Xanadu (Rush song) - Wikipedia

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    "Xanadu" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush from their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings. [1] It is approximately eleven minutes long, beginning with a five-minute-long instrumental section before transitioning to a narrative written by Neil Peart , which in turn was inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan .

  4. Kubla Khan - Wikipedia

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    Kubla Khan was likely written in October 1797, though the precise date and circumstances of the first composition of Kubla Khan are slightly ambiguous, due to limited direct evidence. Coleridge usually dated his poems, but did not date Kubla Khan, [4] and did not mention the poem directly in letters to his friends.

  5. Welcome to the Pleasuredome (song) - Wikipedia

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    The music video for "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" was directed by Bernard Rose. It features the group stealing a car whilst Holly is flying in a helicopter chasing them, going to a carnival and encountering all manner of deceptively "pleasureable" activities. The audio soundtrack of the video was included as part of the cassette single.

  6. Xanadu (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the 1980 film of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film Down to Earth. [1] The title refers to Xanadu, the site of the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan's summer palace.

  7. List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Wikipedia

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    Kubla Khan: Or, A vision in a dream. A Fragment. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" 1798 1816 Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox "An Ox, long fed with musty hay," 1798 1798, July 30 Hexameters. ('William my teacher,' &c.) "William, my teacher, my friend! dear William and dear Dorothea!" 1799 1851

  8. Magic (Olivia Newton-John song) - Wikipedia

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    "Magic (Peach & DJ Dan Murphy remix)" is a remix of the song. In May 2011, it was remixed by two Australians, DJ Dan Murphy and Steve Peach, to create a dance version. Newton-John went back to the studio to re-sing the vocals.

  9. Talk:Xanadu (Rush song) - Wikipedia

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    (RI)Taking it back to the basics, the lyrics of the song are "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a pleasure dome decree"; that is almost exactly taking it from the poem, so logically Xanadu is the same thing as the place within the poem. —83.104.37.31 16:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)