hit, but literally the best-selling song of the entire 1980s in America, staying at No. (Photo: YouTube)Īnd so, despite the singer’s misgivings and any controversy surrounding the video and song, “Physical” was a game-changer for Newton-John. Olivia Newton-John in the "Physical" video, 1981. “I thought, ‘Well, you know what? I need to do a video, and I need to do it about exercise - that will take away from, you know, what they're thinking it's about.’” markets, like Salt Lake City, for its suggestive content), she came up with a plan. radio stations and in more conservative U.S. So, worrying that the song’s aggressive sexuality might ruin her image (the single was in fact banned by some U.K. Newton-John soon realized that there was no turning back. “I was really anxious about it, because I thought I'd gone too far,” she explains. And Newton-John admits to Yahoo Entertainment that even after she agreed to record it, she had second thoughts. At first, Newton-John actually rejected “Physical” - which was originally intended for a “macho male rock figure like Rod Stewart,” according its co-writer, Steve Kipner, and later passed over by a more fiercely rock ‘n’ roll-leaning diva, Tina Turner.
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