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CHARTS

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Semaine du 11 février, CULTURE CLUB domine les charts ....  le single LIVIN'IN DESPERATE TIME extrait du film TWO OF A KIND fait son entrée dans le classement américain BILLBOARD HOT100 ... à la 64ème place ! TWIST OF FATE recul de plus belle sur la 30ème ! 

 

 

 

PHOTO SOUVENIR

ONJ backstage dans un concert de EURYTHMICS ...

 

PORTRAIT

 

 

EN CES TEMPS SI DESESPERANTS

2026 .. commence bien ... entre les tueries de masses en Iran, les exécutions publiques aux USA et TRUMP toujours vivant .. les trains qui déraillent en Espagne, l'Ukraine toujours copieusement bombardé par les Russes, ces jeunes tués et brulés dans un bar en Suisse ... dois-je continuer ....

Je me suis amusé à dire à des amis ... 2026 l'année de tous les dangers ... comme un préssentiment ... 

 

 

PARENTHESE SORTIES DU 30

Quelques jolies ré éditions pour cette fin du mois de janvier ... et toujours rien à l'horizon concernant OLIVIA ! 

PUB

11 juin 1964 : MCA publiait une pub dans le magazine BILLBOARD pour le nouveau single d'OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, MAKING A GOOD THING BETTER ! 

 

STATS

D'une semaine à une autre le public qui vient sur ce blog change... cette dernière semaine les Vietnamiens et les Brésiliens étaient plus nombreux que les américains et français .. 

 

UN DAYBEAT REMIX

 

PARLEZ MOI

 

 

EN CES TEMPS SI DESESPERANTS

LES VERSIONS LONGUES D'ALEJANDRO

ONJ et SHEENA EASTON !

 

 

ADVERTISEMENT

vue sur la "couv" du BILLBOARD du 1er mai 1976, cet encart pour la promo de l'album COME ON OVER .. mais pas que ! 

L'album se hisse à la 14ème place du classement BILLBOARD 200 et à la 3ème du BILLBOARD HOT COUNTRY LPS

LA LYRIC VIDEO DU JOUR

Dare To Dream ft. John Farnham

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Mieux vaut tard que jamais .. mais à part les fans ( et encore !) .... je ne sais pas qui cela intéresse .. pour un album sorti un  5 mai 2023 ..

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LA COUPURE

IN FULL SWING

As the acclaimed choreographer’s revival of Grease goes on tour, she tells us how work and her young granddaughters keep her on her toes

• HELLO! (UK)
• 2 Apr 2024
• INTERVIEW: EMILY HORAN Grease tours 12 April to 16 November; visit greasemusical.co.uk. 

She may have turned 80 last year, but if there’s one thing that keeps Dame Arlene Phillips feeling young, it’s her two granddaughters. “There’s no game I won’t play – even if it involves crawling under the table,” the celebrated choreographer – grandmother to Lila, five, and Emme, three – exclusively tells hello!.

“They never stop dancing around. They say: ‘Watch me, Grandma!’ I love them so much,” she adds of her daughter Alana’s two girls. But it’s not just the little ones in her life helping Arlene stay full of energy.

“Work definitely keeps me trying to feel young,” laughs the star, who has spent her career crafting routines for A-listers from Sir Elton John to Tina Turner; she met her longterm partner Angus Ion on the set of Freddie Mercury’s I Was Born to Love You video in 1985.

Still as sparky as ever, it’s clear the former Strictly Come Dancing judge does not intend to slow down at all. She’s juggling a number of projects: the highly anticipated revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express

(opening in London in June), the hit London revival of Guys & Dolls and the UK and Ireland tour of Grease, which kicks off on 12 April at Bromley’s Churchill Theatre.

“This is the real story to Grease – it’s an all-singing, alldancing return to the original production,” says Arlene of the musical, which stars Marley Fenton as Danny and Hope Dawe as Sandy. “There’s a lot of edginess to this show. But all the big hits are there too.”

The star has a special link to Grease, having worked with Dame Olivia Newton-John, who played Sandy in the 1978 film.

“Olivia was a beautiful human being,” says Arlene, who choreographed the music videos for the singer and actress’s songs Dangerous Times and Twist of Fate in the 1980s. “One time, I had my daughter Alana with me. Olivia was wonderful with her. She was so sweet, kind and caring.

“What a lot of people don’t know is that, in many ways, she was responsible for my US career. She came to a live show that my dance group Hot Gossip were doing [in the late 1970s] and fell in love with them.

“She told me she was going to make a film with [US producer] Allan Carr – and that ‘he needs to see this’. She showed Allan a video of our show. I later got a call to ask if I’d be interested in going to Hollywood to choreograph his [1980] film Can’t Stop the Music,” says Arlene, who went on to work with directors including Clint Eastwood and Ridley Scott.

REVIVING A CLASSIC

She also worked on the 1993 West End production of Grease, as well as its revivals in 2007 and 2022 – and the latest cast is “fantastic”, she says. “I’ve seen it happen before, where certain cast members have a magnetism and the audience cannot take their eyes off them. Without question, Marley, our Danny, is going to be a magnet. He is captivating.”

Arlene is also directing and choreographing With All Our Hearts, an all-star West End gala, taking place on 9 April at London’s Adelphi Theatre, to celebrate 75 years of the NHS and raise money for NHS Charities Together.

Hosted by Oti Mabuse and Dr Ranj Singh and featuring theatre stars including Marisha Wallace and Kerry Ellis, the production “is going to be one very special night”, she says.

It has been 16 years since Arlene was a judge on Strictly, having left in 2008 after four years. Does she still tune in?

“I only really watch the dancing. For me, Strictly is about the dancers and the partnerships,” says the star, who is pleased that former professional dancer Anton Du Beke is on the panel. “Anton is lovely. He was destined to be a judge.”

Although her sparkling career has earnt her accolades including a damehood and a Special Recognition prize at the Olivier Awards, Arlene’s feet are still firmly on the ground.

“The moment you get those awards, you’re glowing, but life carries on,” she tells us. “In the bigger picture, it doesn’t change anything. I’ll always be down to earth.”

Article Name:IN FULL SWING

Publication:HELLO! (UK)

Author:INTERVIEW: EMILY HORAN Grease tours 12 April to 16 November; visit greasemusical.co.uk. For tickets to With All Our Hearts, visit lwtheatres.co.uk.

 

Arlene worked on the video for Olivia’s 1983 hit Livin’ In Desperate Times and says of the shoot: “It was an endless day in a freezing studio.

"We were both trying to encourage each other to keep going.

“My daughter Alana came to the shoot and kept trying to tell Olivia what to do — I’ve got a picture of her pointing at Olivia. "Children on set drive people insane but that was a great memory.”

REMIX

Depuis le décès d'Olivia Newton-John quantité de caricatures, de reprises de ses chansons ont fait leurs apparitions sur le net ! Quelques bons remixes aussi ...

 

 

HOPELESSLY 

 Quand quelqu'un fait quelque chose sur la toile .. ça sert forcement la cause de quelqu'un d'autre ...

Merci DJ PaulT

 

A CAPPELLA 

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Petite ballade composée en 1975 par Rona Newton-John, produite par son mari de l'époque, Graham Hall, avec la soeur Olivia en renfort vocal ! 

 

CHARTS

Le 24 mars 1984, LIVIN' IN DESPERATE TIMES, stagne du haut de sa 7ème semaine dans le classement BILLBOARD HOT100, à la 31ème place !

 

Olivia Newton-John · (Livin' In) Desperate Times (Re-mixed Version / Remastered 2021)

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FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 17, 1979 

L'album TOTALLY HOT stagne à la 8ème place du classement BILLBOARD 200 après avoir perdu quelques places ... mais dans le classement HOT COUNTRY LPS.. il se hisse à la 4ème ! ... étrange me direz vous ... 

 

FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 17, 1984  

Le 17 mars 1984, LIVING IN DESPERATE TIMES se hisse à la 31ème place du classement américain BILLBOARD HOT100 ! 

Le duo TAKE A CHANCE est à la porte de sortie du TOP 50 ADULT CONTEMPORARY et la B.O TWO OF A KIND régresse toujours un peu dans le BILLBOARD 200 !

CHARTS

Le 10 mars 1984, LIVIN' IN DESPERATE TIMES se hisse à la 33ème place du classement BILLBOARD HOT100 ! 

 

 

Le duo TRAVOLTA/NEWTON-JOHN se promène toujours dans le classement des adultes !! 4 petites places de perdue dans le TOP50 ADULT CONTEMPORARY du BILLBOARD ! 

  

 

CHRISTINE MCVIE domine ce classement :

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FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 11, 1984

Le 11 fevrier 1984, LIVIN' IN DESPERATE TIMES fait son entrée dans le classement américain BILLBOARD HOT100 ! 2ème single d'ONJ extrait de la BO TWO OF A KIND !

ONJ fait son entrée de la 64ème place ! TAKE A CHANCE, le duo avec TRAVOLTA chute dans le classement ADULT CONTEMPORARY de la 7ème à la 23ème place... 

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ON THIS DAY

Olivia Newton John pictured during a video shoot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, 28th October 1983.

 

ROME, ITALY - OCTOBER 28: Actress Olivia Newton-John attends the "A Few Best Men" photocall during the 6th International Rome Film Festival on October 28, 2011 in Rome, Italy.

 

QUINTESSENCE

 

FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 14, 1984

Le 14 avril 1984, LIVIN' IN DESPERATE TIMES, second extrait de la B.O TWO OF A KIND par OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN a radicalement décroché dans le BILLBOARD HOT 100 pour se retrouver à la 99ème place ! Il n'a pas convaincu le grand public et n'a pas dépasser une bien honorable 31ème position !   ONJ n'a pas non plus été la reine de la promo sur ce titre ... 

  Dans le classement BILLBOARD 200, le GREATEST HITS Volume 2 est toujours en liste du haut de ses 80 semaines d'existence ... remontant de 6 places ....  et la B.O de TWO OF A KIND en perd 3  !