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From
Neighbour to Pop Diva
Immediately the potential was seen
in kylie and she was signed for a 5 year four album deal including
a Greatest Hits. Pete Waterman states, "She has a great voice.I
love working with her because she has a terrific sense of humour,
a fabulous personality and she knows how to really sell a song." Kylie's
first release musically in the UK was to be a newly penned song, "I
Should Be So Lucky", it climbed the charts slowly to reach No.1 and
it stayed there for 5 weeks, selling over 800,000 copies and the album,
"Kylie" went 7x platinum with sales of over 1.85 million. her string
of hits and her record over the next five years has placed Kylie in
the Guiness Book Of Records and within Music history forever. "The
Locomotion" incidentally peaked at No.3 in the USA with sales of 500,000,
but Europe too was loving every minute. The first four singles went
No.1 in Finland (a record) and the album "Kylie" went on to sell over
7.3 million worldwide. This was one of the most successful starts
to a pop career ever. In 1989 a second album was released, "Enjoy
Yourself" and Kylie decided that she was missing her acting and the
lifestyle that entailed so she began lookign for a dceent Australian
script, Kylie wanted a small film to try and find her feet in the
movie world. the problem was/is Kylie is such a huge star within the
music scene the media were on the case and made her acting debut asuccess
but also a carefully watched baptism. The character "Lola" in the
"The Delinquents" with Charlie Schlatter told the stroy of a young
girl growing up in the 50's. It was soon a No.1 box office smash in
both the UK and AUS, mostly thanks to Kylie's growing number of supporter's.
No rest period though and ylie was intent on moving her musical career
forward, some call it a huge leap as the bubblegum pop turned into
bubblegum classics as her third album "Rhythm Of Love" spawned the
golden quartet of singles, Step Back n Time, Shocked, What Do I Have
To Do? and Better The Devil You Know. This album handed the opportunity
to work with Stephen Bray(Madonna) and also begin to write her own
songs, the new sexier look was also inpired from a relationship with
late rock legend Michael Hutchence of INXS. Never before
had a teenager been watched and written about so much, Kylie was beginning
to see her health suffer and also her family life become non existent
as life on the road away from Australia was taking it's toll on the
21 year old star. "Let's Get To It" her fourth album was opportunity
for Kylie to stage her second world tour and close off her deal with
S/A/W paving the future for, what us fans remember was a very uncertain
time in the life and career of Kylie Minogue....
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