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"Magic" is a song recorded by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for the soundtrack to the 1980 musical fantasy film Xanadu, which starred Newton-John and Gene Kelly. Written and produced by Newton-John's frequent collaborator John Farrar , "Magic" was released as the soundtrack's lead single in May 1980 and topped the US Billboard ...
The soundtrack featured songs on side one by the film's star, Olivia Newton-John, written by her long-time producer, John Farrar. The songs on side two were written and performed by ELO; the title track which closed side two featured Newton-John as lead vocalist. The Newton-John side also featured Cliff Richard, the Tubes and Gene Kelly. At the ...
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.
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 ...
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The single is a reworking of Newton-John's 1980 single "Magic" from the soundtrack to the film Xanadu.The track made history for the three artists involved. For Audé, it became his 12th number one on Billboard ' s Dance Club Songs, the most ever by a producer, while Newton-John and Lattanzi became the first mother-daughter duo to reach number one together on the aforementioned chart, although ...
The songs "Hopelessly Devoted to You", "A Little More Love" and "Magic" (Newton-John hit singles from the 1978 soundtrack Grease, the studio album of the same year, Totally Hot, and the 1980 soundtrack Xanadu, respectively) also had new music videos filmed for the video album.
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.