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Physical is a song by Olivia Newton-John that was released in September 1981 as the first single from her album of the same name . The piece was written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick.
history
Physical was recorded in the spring of 1981 and reached # 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in November 1981, where it stayed at the top for 10 weeks and only followed Hall & Oates song I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) in late January 1982 was replaced. Physical became the world's most successful and best-selling title of 1981. In the US, Physical became the number one hit of the 1980s.
The song is also the guitar solo of Toto - guitarist Steve Lukather known. With Physical , Newton-John sets itself apart from her songs from the film Grease in terms of content , as sexual subjects are dealt with for the first time in the song .
Physical was named the "Sexiest Song of All Times" by US magazine Billboard .
Charts
Like Newton-John's number one hit, I Honestly Love You , Physical was sold millions of times in the United States , where it went platinum . In the United States, Physical became their most successful single and was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for ten consecutive weeks in the winter of 1981 . World was Physical the biggest success of Newton-John and one of the most popular and successful songs of the 80s. Among other things, number 1 was achieved in Australia , Canada and New Zealand . In the UK , the song reached number 7 on the charts.
Trivia
Several Volksbanken-Raiffeisenbanken use a self-deprecating homage to the song 2019 in the campaign "Let's get digital", in which the digital innovations in the banking sector are advertised.