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.

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 ".

* " Whenever You're Away From Me " excerptDanny playing on the clarinet, at the beach ; segué into ... soft instrumental underscoring of " Xanadu " with Sonny drawing and painting ; segué into ... extended intro to " I'm Alive " ( only a portion of which is in the soundtrack album ).

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.

* " Xanadu " ( Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra song ), a 1980 single from the soundtrack to the film Xanadu

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

Percussionist Neil Peart of the rock band Rush uses the glockenspiel in several of the band's arrangements, most notably in the commercial hit songs " The Spirit of Radio " and " Closer to the Heart ", and also in album tracks " Xanadu " and " Circumstances ".

Anchoring the album is Neil Peart's solid and intricate percussion, an ever expanding range of drums, woodblocks, bells and chimes, also a prominent element of " Xanadu "' s atmosphere of sound.

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

Rush's songs Xanadu from their 1977 album A Farewell To Kings and The Trees from their 1978 album Hemispheres also use temple blocks-the blocks that Neil Peart is striking in these tracks can be heard very clearly.

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 ".

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

* Xanadu ( Menudo album ), 1981

* " 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.

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.

* Xanadu Meadowlands, former name of American Dream Meadowlands, a proposed mall in New Jersey, US

After the overthrow of the Song Dynasty, former Emperor Gong relocated to the Mongol capital at Khanbaliq or Dadu ( modern day Beijing ) then later to Shangdu or Xanadu, Tibet, ( at that time called Tubo ( 蕃習 ) and afterwards to the Ganzhou District of Gansu Province.

It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC.

DeMatteis and artist Brian Bolland produced a backup story titled " Falling Down to Heaven " in Madame Xanadu, DC's first attempt at marketing comics specifically to the " direct market " of fans and collectors.

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 ".

One early showcase for Dunn was Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu ( and some of Gregg Toland's famous ' deep focus ' shots ) were essentially created by Dunn's optical printer.

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 ).

When the Web began to see large growth that Xanadu did not, Nelson's team grew defensive in the supposed rivalry that was emerging, but that they were losing.

The birds heard on " A Farewell to Kings " and " Xanadu " were recorded outside near Rockfield Studios.

* The shots of the private zoo at Xanadu in Orson Welles ' 1941 film Citizen Kane were filmed at the San Diego Zoo.

They were used in the Xanadu FEBE ( Front End-Back End ) protocol in a manner similar to the use of URIs between web browsers and servers.

While the two preceding ELO albums, Discovery and Xanadu, were heavily influenced by pop and disco, Time is much closer to ELO's roots of progressive rock music.

The mansion contains Kane's vast collection of classical sculptures and art, and the newsreel claims that portions of Xanadu were taken from other famous palaces overseas.

His lessons in magic were bolstered by visits from the Phantom Stranger, and he had a sexual relationship with Madame Xanadu, but she refused to marry him because she saw his future.

These were: the Hamilton Princess and Southampton Princess in Bermuda ; the Bahamas Princess ( formerly the King's Inn ) and the Xanadu Princess Tower ( formerly the International ) in Freeport ; the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marques in Mexico ; and the Francis Drake in San Francisco.

While in a pub, s / he meets Vandal Savage, Madame Xanadu and Jason Blood ; s / he shows early ( but hidden ) contempt for Jason and Xanadu saying they were at Camelot, believing them to be liars ( their incarnation of Camelot was the 6th century one of Sir Justin but she's unaware ).

The Xanadu Houses were a series of experimental homes built to showcase examples of computers and automation in the home in the United States.

The Xanadu Houses were notable for being built with polyurethane insulation foam rather than concrete, for easy, fast, and cost-effective construction.

The Wisconsin Dells and Gatlinburg houses were closed and demolished in the early 1990s ; the Kissimmee Xanadu House was closed in 1996 and demolished in October 2005.

Shortly after the Xanadu Houses were built and opened as visitor attractions, tourism companies began to advertise them as the " home of the future " in brochures encouraging people to visit.

By the early 1990s, the Xanadu houses began to lose popularity because the technology they used was quickly becoming obsolete, and as a result the houses in Wisconsin and Tennessee were demolished, while the Xanadu House in Kissimmee continued to operate as a public visitor attraction until it was closed in 1996.

Also notable, the other " big-guns " mentioned by the patrons in the bar were Doctor Fate and Madame Xanadu.

Both the design described in Liskov and Shrira's paper, and the implementation of promise pipelining in Xanadu, had the limitation that promise values were not first-class: an argument to, or the value returned by a call or send could not directly be a promise ( so the example of promise pipelining given earlier, which uses a promise for the result of one send as an argument to another, would not have been directly expressible in the call-stream design or in the Xanadu implementation ).

There is a heavy use of assonance, the reuse of vowel sounds, and a reliance on alliteration, repetition of the first sound of a word, within the poem including the first line: " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ".

Later that year, she appeared in her first film since Grease starring in the musical Xanadu with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck.

Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson.

During his first year as a graduate student at Harvard, Ted Nelson began implementing the system which contained the basic outline of what would become Project Xanadu: a word processor capable of storing multiple versions, and displaying the differences between these versions.

In 1972, Cal Daniels completed the first demonstration version of the Xanadu software on a computer Nelson had rented for the purpose, though Nelson soon ran out of money.

According to economist Robin Hanson, in 1990 the first known corporate prediction market was used at Xanadu.

Return to Xanadu was first published in the United States in Uncle Scrooge # 261-262 ( October – November 1991 ) and reprinted in # 357 ( September, 2006 ).

* Instrumental medley of " Whenever You're Away From Me " and " Xanadu ", over first part of opening credits ; segué into ...

Xanadu won the first Razzie for Worst Director and was nominated for six other awards.

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.

In addition, he started the first internal corporate prediction market at Xanadu in 1990.

" These stories included, in 1980-1, " Certified Safe " in Mystery in Space and " Falling Down to Heaven " in Madame Xanadu, DC's first attempt at marketing comics specifically to the " direct market " of fans and collectors.

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 ).

" Return to Xanadu " was first published in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp edited by Harry Turtledove and published by Baen Books in 2005.

The success of Madrid Xanadú prompted The Mills to embark on the $ 1 billion + Meadowlands Xanadu complex in 2004, which was first planned as " Meadowlands Mills ," but the project has caused numerous delays and costed the company financially.

The first European to describe a Chinese garden was the Venetian merchant and traveler Marco Polo, who visited the summer palace of the Mongol ruler of China and founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, at Xanadu.

Masters built his first balloon-constructed house exterior in 1969 in less than three days during a turbulent snowstorm, using the same methods later used to build the Xanadu houses.

The first Xanadu House opened in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.

Can't Stop the Music is notorious for being the first winner of the Worst Picture Razzie, for it was a double feature of this and Xanadu that inspired John J. B. Wilson to start the Razzies.

Its first production was Xanadu starring Super Junior members Heechul and Kangin.