Physical (Olivia Newton-John Song) - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

• Elephant Man (musician) featuring Kat DeLuna sampled the song in "Body Talk" which appears on the album "Let's Get Physical" in 2008.
• Victor Willis of the Village People covered this in 1982 as a 12-inch single on Sutra Records.
• Ramsey Lewis covered this in 1983 on his album Les Fleurs.
• Industrial metal band Revolting Cocks covered this song for their 1990 album Beers, Steers, and Queers.
• "Physical" was 're-worked' by the British electronic music duo Goldfrapp on the re-release of the single Utopia from their debut album Felt Mountain as U.K. Girls (Physical).
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor covered the song as a hidden track for her album Shoot from the Hip.
• Kylie Minogue recorded a cover of the song for the soundtrack to the 2001 film Moulin Rouge! but it was ultimately not used. It is however, available on the Australian Tour Edition of Light Years.
• Synthpop group Queen of Japan recorded a cover of the song, which was available as a single in 2001.
• The song was performed by Marc Kudisch and Lisa Capps in the 2002 stage version of Earth Girls Are Easy.
• Kent James (aka Nick Name) released a cover in 2003.
• An electronic dance cover of the song was recorded by Cat5.
• Electropop band The Black Ghosts recorded a cover of the song.
• In 2007, Swedish clothing company WeSC released an album of new covers of "Physical" by 12 different artists, including Cat5, Doomington, Booty Cologne featuring ADL, The Black Ghosts, Lisa Loud & Kriss Darang featuring Hollie Cook, Timbuktu & Chords, Caged Baby, Pink Pioneers, The Glimmers, Blonde from Fargo, and Sara Lumholdt (a former member of Swedish pop group A*Teens now going under the stage name "Sara Love"). The album was titled Let's Get Physical with WeSC.
• Dr. Demento assistant SuLu recorded "(I Gotta Get A) Physical" as a commentary about a typical doctor's office.
• Actor Bill Murray gave an impromptu performance of the song during his guest appearance on the pilot episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
• The workout theme of Newton-John's "Physical" video clip was appropriated by Sesame Street in a segment called "Let's All Exercise" (featuring Grover and Prairie Dawn among other Muppets). "Let's All Exercise" is not an actual "cover" of "Physical" as such but could more accurately be called an interpolation.
• The Glimmers cover the song for the 2008 dance compilation album Poplife Presents: Poplife Sucks.
• Steve Carell and Amy Ryan sing a parody of the song on the 9 October 2008 episode of The Office, "Business Ethics (The Office)".
• Taiwanese Mandopop artist Jolin Tsai cover the song for her first English cover album Love Exercise in 2008.
• Not the Nine O'Clock News parodied the song as "Typical, Bloody Typical"
• Jane Lynch of Glee performed a cover of the song with Olivia Newton-John, who guest starred as herself in the 4 May 2010 episode, titled "Bad Reputation". The episode aired in Australia on 20 May 2010.
• Two Lives Jews recorded humorous lyrics to "Physical" dealing with safe sex. (Souce: "I'm going to get some Latex/for Safe Sex")
• Drag Icon RuPaul covered "Physical" on "The Rupaul" Show When Olivia Newton-John was a guest.
• A dance song, Bodytalk, by Bodybangers featuring Joyce borrows heavily from the lyrics of the original song.