videogram reviews including Physical
Fleetwood’s disc mixes local ethnic music with the styles of the rock musicians who traveled with him. Unfortunately, those interested in this sort of rock-ethnic combination will find the disc’s rather severe sync problem very disconcerting.
Newton-John’s Physical is, thus far, atypical of such full-length home video programs as Nicks’s, Manchester’s, Loggins, or America’s in that Newton-John illustrates her songs (mostly by swimming) rather than merely sings them in concert.
It’s also atypical because the video and audio disc were released simultaneously. Concept programs. as Physical would be called by video producers, are more expensive to make than straight concert footage, which is why the latter is more prevalent.