PHYSICAL REVISITED BY POPMATTERS

John Farrar and the creative team behind Physical recall how Olivia Newton-John (@olivianj) brought a Grammy-winning sensation from the studio to the screen. https://t.co/ZuqCoRSVKL pic.twitter.com/UVrGXpUDbk

— PopMatters (@PopMatters) 22 octobre 2018

Dans cet excellent article de PopMatters, .. vraiment,  le producteur John Farrar et l'équipe créative de Physical, se rappellent comment Olivia Newton-John a propulsé l'un de ses meilleurs album .... du studio d'enregistrement aux Grammy Awards. 

Le génie de John Farrar est indéniable .. et c'est dommage que les albums d'ONJ ne soient pas enrichis de ses démos ou de versions alternatives ! John est sans doute comme Olivia .. trop humble ! 

J'espère qu'un jour des gens auront la chance de (re)découvrir le génie de l'un associé au talent de l'autre ... 

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"Olivia Newton-John's best album to date." That's how Rolling Stone described Physical (1981). The magazine's review got it right. Different moods ebbed and flowed across the album, reflecting the singer's supple vocal style and the brilliance of producer John Farrar. As a tanned and toned Newton-John splashed in the sea, Physical soaked record buyers in waves of pleasure.

Released in October 1981, Physical would signify the commercial peak of Newton-John's partnership with Farrar. The ten-song set furnished a canvas for the producer's most progressive ideas yet, the culmination of a musical makeover that had begun only three years earlier with Newton-John's role in Grease (1978) and continued onscreen in Xanadu (1980). The album's sharper, rock-infused material made the pleasant country twang of "Please Mr. Please" (1975) seem like a quaint memory.

"I noticed when I worked on Physical that Olivia had certain different voices that she could use," says Farrar. While Newton-John had always brought a certain élan to Farrar's songs, Physical summoned both the sensual and sinewy sides to her voice. Director Brian Grant would animate those qualities in Olivia Physical (1982), a full-length video album that won the Recording Academy's very first "Video of the Year" Grammy Award and spawned an Emmy-nominated TV special, Let's Get Physical (1982).

ABC-TV promoted Let's Get Physical with the tag line "Olivia Newton-John. Like You've Never Seen Her Before." The music and videos that accompanied Physical boldly revamped the singer's image and caught even her most ardent fans by surprise, especially the title track's risqué storyline. However, "Physical" not only became the most successful hit of Newton-John's career but the biggest hit of the entire decade, spending ten weeks at number one. With "Make a Move on Me" following at number five, Billboard named Newton-John "Top Pop Singles Artist" of 1982 and deemed John Farrar the year's "Top Pop Singles Producer" ahead of legendary Beatles producer George Martin.

Read more at https://www.popmatters.com/olivia-newton-john-physical-2613720727.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

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ONJ à London en 1976 pour la promotion de son album MAKING A GOOD THING BETTER..
GREASE était déjà dans ses pensées .. au vu du longplay sur la commode ...

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