Lto death of Olivia Newton-John it’s too strong a jolt. The whole world, in these hours, is remembering and paying homage with esteem, gratitude and affection the unforgettable Sandy Olsson of Grease. Also Italy 1 does its part changing the programming at the last: tonight instead of the “best of Live beats“, Broadcasts, at 21.20, Grease.
Grease: a piece of cinema history
Grease is many things. A ’78 musical film directed by Randal Kleiser with the mythicals Olivia Newton Johnin fact, and John Travolta in the role of the charming and very sweet bully Danny Zuko. It is one of the best films in the history of cinema of all time, a glimpse of the 1950s generation. A way of feeling and seeing life.
The songs of Grease, a piece of music history
At the base of everything there is that it is a musical film based on the musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The songs of Grease so they are protagonists how much, if maybe not more, of the protagonists themselves. Unforgettable, they make the history of musicas the film makes the history of cinema. Here we show you and let us listen to the most beautiful ones.
You’re the one that I want
It is the symbolic song of Grease. Danny takes off his jacket and moves his pelvis. Sandy smokes, crushes the cigarette with the shoe and he is already at his feet. A dance of love is born that marks the beginning of the couple and remains engraved in anyone’s mind.
Summer Nights
Danny and Sandy tell their respective friends that they are falling in love. Overwhelming is another iconic song of Greaseat the top of the charts.
Grease
It is the song for the opening and closing credits of the film, therefore it appears on the disc twice. Written by Barry Gibb, then leader of the Bee Geesis sung by Frankie Valli – Francesco Stephen Castelluccio –which has no connection with the film.
Hopelessly Devoted to You
He sings it Sandy, injured by Danny who, to keep faith with his fame as a womanizer, ignores it. This song written again by Barry Gibb, very sweet, expresses the turmoil of the fear of not being returned in love. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song in ’79. And over time it has become one of Olivia Newton-John’s most recognizable songs.
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Greased Lightnin
Gritty, biting, she sings it Danny when he polishes his car for a race. Even today it is difficult not to dance it.
Sandy
He sings it Danny, thoughtful, after being rejected by Sandy after a fight. He is an engaging hymn of love.
Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee
Ironic song with which Rizzo (Stockard Channing) makes fun of Sandy by describing her poses and attitudes to be pristine, that make her look like Sandra Deeactress of the fifties who embodied the classic model of the girl next door. Model that Sandy then refuses in the end by changing her look thanks to the contribution of the Pink Ladies.
Beauty School Dropout
He sings it Frankie Avalon to FrenchySandy’s friend (Didi Conn). The girl, in crisis for candy pink hair for a mistake made in the class of dye and cut, receives a visit from an angel who invites her not to give up school for such a trivial reason. She thus becoming “the one she dumped” while the others go to the graduation ceremony. The set that passes by the diner where the boys usually gather is wonderful to an all-white scenography that mimics the stairways to heaven, but with a dance troupe made up of clients from a beauty salonincluding helmets.
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