Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra song) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-29

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00:00:44 1 Chart performance
00:00:53 1.1 Weekly charts
00:01:22 1.2 Year-end charts
00:01:51 2 Personnel
00:02:02 3 Olivia featuring Paula version
00:02:06 3.1 Chart performance (Olivia featuring Paula version)
00:02:12 4 Kirsty K. version
00:02:38 4.1 Chart performance (Kirsty K. version)
00:03:06 5 New Electric Light Orchestra version
00:03:14 6 Sharleen Spiteri version



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"Xanadu" is the title song from the soundtrack album Xanadu, and is the title song from the 1980 film of the same name. The song is performed by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) and Olivia Newton-John. Newton-John sings the primary vocals, with ELO lead singer Jeff Lynne adding "parenthetic" vocals in the style of their other songs on the Xanadu soundtrack, along with ELO providing the instrumentation. It is Jeff Lynne's favourite song of all that he has written.The single reached number one in several countries, and was the band's only UK number one single, when it peaked there for two weeks in July 1980.  It was certified as "silver" by the British Phonographic Industry.  The song peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.