It was released in August 1978 as the fourth single from the movie's soundtrack album and became a massive hit worldwide during the summer of 1978.

In the movie version of Grease, Travolta and Newton-John played the lead roles of Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson.

On the other hand, Danny lied to her and claimed to attend Lake Forest Academy, a prestigious real-life private school in Chicago.

Sandy's parents' decision to pull her out of Catholic school and put her in public Rydell High exposes Danny's subterfuge.

[3] Separately and unknown to each other, both Danny and Sandy meet with their respective group of friends and share their perspectives of their summertime fling.

Stockard Channing (Rizzo)'s solo line "'Cause he sounds like a drag"— a bowdlerization of the likely slur used in the original Chicago version—was spoken rather than sung.