OLIVIA NEUTRON-BOMB

 

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31 déc. 2025 

8 AUGUST 1980  Con­ceived as a cashin on the same short-lived disco craze that spawned 1979’s Roller Boo­gie, Xanadu stands as a legendary Hol­ly­wood mis­fire, derail­ing the movie career of Olivia New­ton-john and dir­ectly inspir­ing the cre­ation of the Golden Rasp­berry Awards. 

 An all-singing, all-roller­skat­ing fantasia, it cast the Grease god­dess as a genu­ine myth­o­lo­gical fig­ure: Terp­si­chore, one of the nine muses of Olym­pus, rein­carn­ated in mod­ern-day LA. The premise is recycled from 1947’s Rita Hay­worth show­case 

 Down To Earth – itself a sequel to 1941 fantasy Here Comes Mr Jordan – while Gene Kelly, bizar­rely enough, reprises his char­ac­ter from 1944’s Cover Girl. 

 Crit­ics skewered it, but Xanadu’s songs escaped the worm­hole of box-office dis­aster. New­ton-john’s “Magic” was a US num­ber one, while the endur­ing banger of a title song, a col­lab­or­a­tion with ELO, topped the UK Top 40. The dream that came through a mil­lion years lived on through all the tears…

 

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