Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Unavailable on CD in the U.S., this is CBS's 1989 reissue ofMCA's top five & double platinum 1980 soundtrack to directorRobert Greenwald's 1980 musical starring Olivia Newton-John at a high point in her career and Gene Kelly at the bottom of his. The album features 10 tracks, five each from E.L.O. & Olivia Newton-John, including the #1 smash 'Magic' by Newton-John, the top 10 title cut by both her & E.L.O. and the top 20 duet 'Suddenly' by Newton-John and Cliff Richard!

Album Description:
Unavailable on CD in the U.S., this is CBS's 1989 reissue ofMCA's top five & double platinum 1980 soundtrack to directorRobert Greenwald's 1980 musical starring Olivia Newton-John at a high point in her career and Gene Kelly at the bottom of his. The album features 10 tracks, five each from E.L.O. & Olivia Newton-John, including the #1 smash 'Magic' by Newton-John, the top 10 title cut by both her & E.L.O. and the top 20 duet 'Suddenly' by Newton-John and Cliff Richard!

Rating: - A Chart Monster
The movie was a clunker, but the soundtrack was a chart monster and one of the best examples of cross-promotion during this "Golden Age of Rock;" the music from top artists was built to stand alone as a means to sell the film to a huge audience in the highly-influential pop culture of the times.

Five of the 10 tracks popped into the Billboard Hot 100 and the album spent an amazing 36 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at number four.

The album was split into a side each ... Read More

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Rating: - Love this music
Had this album on Vinyl LP for years till it broke. Was excited to find it on CD! This is a great album, and ELO is awesome! I Missed these songs!

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Rating: - Very addictive sound track
I never even heard of Xanadu before my wife told me about it. She forced me to watch it and quite frankly it's a great movie. I ended up loving the sound track as well. I would recommend this if your a fan of the movie.

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Rating: - 4.5 Stars.... Guilty pleasure stands the test of time
Music: 5 stars; Album sequencing: 4 stars

This movie soundtrack was originally released in 1980, presenting the improbable mix of songs of Olivia Newton-John (penned by John Farrar) and Electric Light Orchestra (penned by Jeff Lynne) in a truly terrible movie, but the music was first rate, with both Olivia and ELO at their peak.

You have to imagine "Xanadu" (10 tracks; 42 min.) as the original vinyl album, with an A and a B side. On the A side are the John Ferrar-penned ... Read More

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Rating: - Before Harrison, Dylan and McCartney there was Newton-John
Let's just start by saying that I was buying the Idle Race 2-cd set and realized that I now had just about everything Jeff Lynne had ever recorded......EXCEPT FOR XANADU!

How could I resist?

Anyway, I am not going to waste too much space on a Xanadu review. A few of my (random) thoughts:

-> This CD confirms my theory that ELO was at least better than Olivia Newton-John (as for my assertion that ELO was better than Abba, we'll have to wait for another day). The ... Read More