Track Listing: 1.Aphrodite's Child - It's Five O'clock 2.Cats - Magical Mystery Morning 3.Dave Dee - Wedding Bells 4.Middle Of The Road - Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum 5.Tremeloes - Hello Buddy 6.Joe Dolan - Sometimes A Man Just Has To Cry 7.Demis Roussos - We Shall Dance 8.Tremeloes - Too Late (To Be Saved) 9.Donny Osmond - Puppy Love 10.Mac & Katie Kissoon - Freedom 11.Mouth & MacNeal - Hello-A 12.Hollies - Magic Woman Touch 13.Roy Wood - Dear Elaine 14.Demis Roussos - I'll Be Your Friend 15.Righteous Bros. - Dream On 16.Guy's 'N' Dolls - There's A Whole Lot Of Loving 17.Olivia Newton John - Sam 18.Hollis - Amnesty
Julia Stonecypher is down on her luck. She has lost her husband and the vice-president of the local bank pays a visit to tell her the house is being repossessed and she and her two children are homeless. After leaving Julia's house Brian the bank vice-president has an accident in his car and is forced to return to the house and shelter from the severe storm. A romance begins and Julia's life starts to take a turn for the better...
Grease is not just a nostalgic look at a simpler decade - it's an energetic and exciting musical homage to the age of rock 'n'roll.
Grease is not just a nostalgic look at a simpler decade - it's an energetic and exciting musical homage to the age of rock 'n'roll.
Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, One Night Only trades on the Bee Gees' shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers' signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.Casual listeners can't be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978's Saturday Night Fever, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early 1970s. One Night Only thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late 1960s hits ("Massachusetts", "To Love Somebody", "Lonely Days"), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the 1970s blue-eyed soul ("Jive Talkin'", "Nights on Broadway") that led them naturally into disco. The Fever hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative "Immortality". --Sam Sutherland
Grease was a phenomenal hit with its target teenage audience when it was released in 1977. The songs dominated the pop charts and brought heady success for its lead actors, John Travolta (Danny) and Olivia Newton-John (Sandy) despite the fact that--as with their energetic co-stars--their own teenage years were some way behind them. As they seize the chance to relive their schooldays, their verve and enthusiasm explodes from the screen. The real class, though, comes from Stockard Channing as feisty Rizzo and, in a couple of cameos, wisecracking silver screen actresses from yesteryear Eve Arden and Joan Blondel. Based on the 1972 stage show and adding several new numbers, Grease is at heart a rites-of-passage movie with plenty of feel-good moments and a euphoric buzz. "You're the One That I Want", "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Summer Nights" became the soundtrack for a generation of high-school students on the cusp of adulthood. Today, it looks like a pastiche of those 1950s Connie Francis rock & roll beach films. But the steady stream of double entendres and knowing body language render it more accessible to the less innocent late 1970s. It's overwhelming nostalgia for anyone in the vicinity of 40. On the DVD: The 25th anniversary special edition of Grease rolls back the years: the 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation transports you instantly back to fifth-form heaven in the local fleapit. The Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound ensures that the songs--ever the staple of MOR radio--complete the nostalgia trip with real zip. The main extra is a short series of fond reminiscences from the actors and director Randal Kleiser, actually filmed for the 20th anniversary. --Piers Ford
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