“Physical” even made Newton-John blush as she told her would-be lover “There’s nothing left to talk about/Unless it’s horizontally” and finally called out “Let’s get animal! Animal!” But she picked up the tempo in “Grease,” especially after Sandy ditched her white sweaters and blouses for waist-high, black leather pants. Please” and “Have You Never Been Mellow” and soft-breathing ballads like “I Honestly Love You,” which in 1975 won Grammys for best female pop vocal and record of the year. The blonde, ever-smiling Newton-John initially favored mild pop-country songs such as “Please Mr. An aerobics-friendly promotional clip, filmed in the early years of MTV, won a Grammy for best video.īoth musically and image-wise, she reinvented herself during those years.
1 for 10 weeks and was named Billboard’s song of the year despite being banned by some radio stations.
“Physical,” the bouncy, R-rated smash released in 1981, was No.
