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"Suddenly" is a duet performed by Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard from the soundtrack Xanadu, and is the love theme from the 1980 film of the same name. It was written and produced by John Farrar. "Suddenly" reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart in October 1980 and number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1981. [3]
Xanadu is the soundtrack to the 1980 musical film of the same name, featuring the Australian singer Olivia Newton-John and the British group Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released in June 1980 on MCA Records in the United States and July 1980 by Jet Records in the United Kingdom. [ 5 ]
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.
"Xanadu" is the title song from the soundtrack of the 1980 musical film of the same name. Written by Jeff Lynne of the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), the song is performed by British and Australian singer, songwriter and actress Olivia Newton-John, with Lynne adding parenthetic vocals in the style of his other songs on the Xanadu soundtrack, and ELO providing the ...
"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 .
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The oldest song featured in the track listing, "Suddenly", is a single from the Xanadu soundtrack, released in 1980. "Take a Chance", part of the Two of a Kind soundtrack, was released as a single in 1984, same year the promotional single " Face to Face " was also released, a song from Barry Gibb 's debut solo album Now Voyager .
In the film the song is heard as the Muses emerge from a graffiti-like portrait; Olivia Newton-John, playing Kira (Terpsichore), emerges last.The film's version of the song contains a fairly lengthy instrumental introduction, a small segment of which is used for the album version.