In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

Kelly continued to make frequent TV appearances and, in 1980, appeared in an acting and dancing role opposite Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu ( 1980 ), an expensive theatrical flop which has since attained a cult following.

* Olivia Newton-John plays the muse Terpsichore as Kira in the 1980 film Xanadu.

This film starred Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John and was widely considered a big-budget flop, but its soundtrack spawned several hit singles for Ms. Newton-John, such as the # 1 hit " Magic ", a duet with Cliff Richard called " Suddenly ", and, with Electric Light Orchestra accompaniment, the title song " Xanadu ".

Xanadu stars Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, and Gene Kelly, and features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard, and The Tubes.

* " Xanadu " Olivia Newton-John / Electric Light Orchestra ( No. 8 Pop, No. 2 AC, No. 1 ( 2 weeks ( UK )))

In 1980, ELO contributed half the music to the motion picture Xanadu, with the other half of the music being provided by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

* Xanadu ( film ), starring Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, and Gene Kelly

The Xanadu soundtrack and all its singles by both ELO and Newton-John were released on MCA Records in the USA and Canada, and on Jet Records elsewhere in the world.

The set includes songs featured from all 11 studio albums up to that point, including an edit of " Great Balls of Fire " from their live album The Night the Light Went On in Long Beach, plus some new recordings amongst the bands extensive back catalog, most notably a reworking of Lynne's only UK number one hit " Xanadu ".

Another known reference to Coleridge's poem is the song " Xanadu " by Canadian rock band Rush in their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings.

A Jon McLaughlin song titled " You Can Never Go Back " mentions Xanadu.

* Xanadu ( Rush song )

They are perhaps best-remembered for their 1983 single " She's a Beauty ", a top 10 U. S. hit with a frequently-played music video in the early days of MTV and in the 1980 film Xanadu singing the rock portion of the cross-genre song " Dancin '" opposite a big band.

1980: Made an appearance in the film Xanadu singing the rock portion of the cross-genre song " Dancin '" opposite a big band.

* " Xanadu " ( Rush song ), a 1977 song, based on Coleridge, recorded by the Canadian rock trio Rush for their album A Farewell to Kings

* " Xanadu ", a song by Moi Dix Mois on the 2007 album Dixanadu

* " Xanadu ( A Vision in a Dream )", a song by Stormlord on the 2001 album At the Gates of Utopia

In 1952, Merrill made her recording debut when she was asked to sing " A Cigarette For Company " with the Earl Hines Band ; the song was released on their Xanadu album.

In the 1980 movie Xanadu, she appears as one of the nine immortal Muses during the opening song I'm Alive by ELO as well as the final title number of Xanadu.

The band, and their song " The Legend of Xanadu ", is referenced in the BBC series Red Dwarf in the episode " Timeslides ".

In Road to Xanadu ( 1927 ), a book length study of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, John Livingston Lowes claimed that the poems were " two of the most remarkable poems in English ".

* Literary Machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual revolution, and certain other topics including knowledge, education and freedom ( 1981 ), Mindful Press, Sausalito, California ; publication dates as listed in the 93. 1 ( 1993 ) edition: 1980 – 84, 1987, 1990 – 93

Charles S. Smith, the founder of a company called Memex ( named after a hypertext system proposed by Vannevar Bush ), hired many of the Xanadu programmers and licensed the Xanadu technology, though Memex soon faced financial difficulties, and the then-unpaid programmers left, taking the computers with them ( the programmers were eventually paid ).

Vivienne is the Lady of the Lake in DC Comics, while Nimue is Madame Xanadu, her youngest sister, and their middle sister is Morgaine le Fey ( given name, Morgana ), and their surname is Inwudu.

Xanadu (; Mongolian: ), or Shangdu (, ) was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China, before he decided to move the seat of his dynasty to the Jin Dynasty capital of Zhōngdū (), which he renamed Dàdū, the present-day Beijing.

Xanadu has raised considerable interest in Scientists after its radar image showed its terrain to be quite similar to earth's terrain with flowing river ( probably of methane and ethane, not of water as they are in Earth ), mountains ( of ice, not rock ) and sand dunes.

* Literary Machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual revolution, and certain other topics including knowledge, education and freedom ( 1981 ), Mindful Press, Sausalito, California.

He was the father of Project Xanadu ( precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web's HTML format and HTTP protocol ) inventor Ted Nelson ( by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm ), and, by his other marriage ( s ): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson.

Lowes's most famous work is The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination ( Houghton Mifflin, 1927 ), which examines the sources of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.

Making her way to Gotham City ( despite being warned by Madame Xanadu to avoid the place in Countdown # 50 ), Mary stumbles upon the former Kahndaqi embassy while being chased by violent criminals from the subway, who are killed by Black Adam.

He continued contributing on the following albums A New World Record ( 1976 ), Out of the Blue ( 1977 ), Discovery ( 1979 ), Xanadu ( 1980 ) and Time ( 1981 ).

In Madame Xanadu # 1 ( 2008 ), Morgaine ( or " Morgana ") is revealed as a sister of Nimue Inwudu ( the future Madame Xanadu ) and Vivienne, the Lady of the Lake.

Later, Greenwald would foray into film directing, including films such as Xanadu ( 1980 ), Breaking Up ( 1997 ) and Steal This Movie!

* Tumbler ( Project Xanadu ), in the Xanadu computer system, a unique identifier of a unit of text or an embedded link

** Xanadu ( soundtrack ), the soundtrack of the film

* Xanadu ( 1980 )

The title name of the 1980 film Xanadu is a reference to Coleridge's poem.

* Xanadu ( 1980 )

Xanadu is a 1980 romantic musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald.

The 1980 release of the movie musical Xanadu brought renewed hopes the building might be saved when the auditorium's facade was used to portray a dilapidated building which became a sparkling, brightly lit roller disco nightclub, but the movie was critically panned and not an economic success.

To this end, his new studio, Don Bluth Productions, demonstrated its ability in its first production, a short film titled Banjo the Woodpile Cat, and this led to work on an animated segment of the live-action film Xanadu ( 1980 ).

* Xanadu ( 1980, animated sequence unit, animator )

Fox can be seen skitching in the 1985 film Back to the Future, as can Michael Beck in the 1980 film Xanadu and Christian Slater in the 1989 film Gleaming the Cube.

His career began in the 1970s and ' 80s directing television and motion pictures, perhaps most notably the big-budget musical Xanadu ( 1980 ).

Prior to the production of the picture, skating trainer Barbara Guedel tested over 300 young skaters, finally selecting fifty that would make up the skating crowds in the picture-many of whom would also feature in another skating-influenced picture, Xanadu ( 1980 ).

* Xanadu ( 1980 )

Beck is known predominantly for his roles as " Swan " in the action film The Warriors ( 1979 ), " Sonny Malone " in Xanadu ( 1980 ), " Lieutenant-Commander Dallas " in Megaforce ( 1982 ), and as " Koda " in " Triumphs of a Man Called Horse " ( 1982 ).

* Xanadu, 1980 ( voice only )