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May 1968
Kylie was born on 28th May 1968 in Melbourne, Australia.1980
First audition, for a role in wartime
TV soapie
The
Sullivans as Carla, an
orphaned Dutch girl. Before her shows are aired, Kylie appears in another soap called
Skyways, set around an airport. Her character is called Robin and Jason Donovan plays her
onscreen brother.
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1984
Kylie's first major role, in mini-series
The Henderson Kids as local tough girl
Charlotte "Char" Kernow. Producer Alan Hardy is very impressed with the young
star and remembers her two years later when she auditions for a role in Neighbours. Kylie
uses her money from The Henderson Kids to make a demo tape, singing Donna Summer's
Dim All The Lights, Patti Labelle's
New Attitude
and Quincy Jones' Just Once. The experience is so overwhelming that the shy teenager ends up
crying her eyes out in the studio (bless!).
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1985
Kylie appears in two more TV roles, an episode of kids' drama
The Zoo Family (the
episode was named "Yvonne The Terrible" after Kylie's character...) and another
mini-series called Fame And
Misfortune, where she plays the part of Sam, the sister of the
main character. Kylie returns to school to complete her HSC (Higher School Certificate),
and takes a part time job in a local video store.
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1986
Shortly after leaving school, Kylie successfully lands the role that was to
change her life completely, that of "tomboy auto-mechanic" Charlene Mitchell in
Neighbours, a soap opera focusing around the lives and loves of a group of, er,
neighbours, in a suburban Melbourne street. Waning viewing figures had meant the programme
was axed by its former TV network a few months earlier and resurrected by rival Channel 10
shortly before Kylie's arrival on the show. The character of Charlene was one of a group
of teenage characters created by the writers with the hope of attracting younger viewers
to the show and Kylie was only supposed to be in the show for about 12 weeks. However, the
popularity of the character proved to be such that her contract was renewed several times
and Charlene became a permanent resident on Ramsay Street for the next two and a half
years!
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Kylie's first scene on
Neighbours
involved her character breaking into her mother Madge's home, only to be caught by
boy-next-door Scott Robinson, who promptly receives a punch from the feisty Charlene.
Scott was played by Kylie's former
Skyways co-star Jason Donovan and as Scott and Charlene
became romantically involved onscreen, Kylie and Jason played out the romance in real
life. The onscreen pairing ensured the
Neighbours bosses got what they set out to achieve,
as thousands of viewers regularly tuned in to witness the daily ups and downs of the
couples' relationship.
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Kylie makes her public singing debut with
a guest appearance on variety show
Young Talent
Time, singing with various members of the
Neighbours cast. She also duets with her sister Dannii, performing the Annie Lennox/Aretha
Franklin hit,
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves.
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The
Neighbours cast performs at a benefit
concert for a Melbourne Aussie-Rules Football club. The crowd so enjoys the performance
that they call for an encore. With nothing prepared, Kylie suggests they sing one of her
favourites,
The Locomotion (originally a 1963 hit for Little Eva). On the back
of her performance, Kylie is persuaded to record a demo of the song at Melbourne's
Sing-Sing studios, with local producer Kaj Dahlstrom.
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March 1987
Kylie becomes the youngest ever star to win the Silver Logie (the Aussie
equivalent to the Emmys) for 'Most Popular Actress In Australia'.
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Kylie and Jason guest star at an
open-air concert for the Young Talent
Time 'Say No To Drugs' campaign, performing
the Howard Jones hit No-One Is To Blame. Kylie again duets with Dannii, roaring onto stage
on the back of a motorbike (even in the early days, the girl knew how to make an
entrance!). This time, they choose the Pointer Sisters tune Twist My Arm, Kylie
modeling one of her homemade frocks.
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April
1987
Kylie's demo
of The
Locomotion
is picked up by Mushroom
Records who sign Kylie with the intention of releasing the track as a single. They draft in
Mike Duffy, an engineer from London's PWL studios, to produce the single. Duffy was asked
to recreate the sound of his bosses, mega-producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, whose 'Hit
Factory' was responsible for hits for the likes of Bananarama, Rick Astley, Mel And Kim,
Sinitta, Dead Or Alive and Hazell Dean. The result is a disco-synth tune with squalling
electric guitars and a chugging bassline. An awe-struck Kylie shoots her first video at
Melbourne's Essendon airport, performing the song with six dancers against a
graffiti-style backdrop. Kylie chooses director Chris Langman to direct the clip - Chris
had been the director on The Henderson Kids three years previously.
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July
1987
The popularity of
Neighbours and in
particular Charlene and Scott reaches fever pitch with their onscreen wedding. Kylie and
Jason tour Australian shopping malls, promoting the wedding episode by cutting numerous
replica cakes... A mini-riot breaks out at one appearance with fans desperate to see the
pair.
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13th
July - Locomotion is released in Australia and shoots straight to Number One
on the
national charts. It stays there for seven weeks and by October has become the biggest-selling single of the decade. Kylie is amazed "I have to keep pinching myself to
believe this is happening" she gasps. For the first of many times Kylie is featured
on the cover of the Australian edition of Smash Hits and is interviewed
for the magazine.
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October 1987
Kylie travels to the UK for a ten-day trip, with the intention of recording a
follow-up single to
Locomotion with Stock, Aitken and Waterman. Despite the
growing success of Neighbours in the UK, SAW have no idea who Kylie is and had actually
forgotten she was coming. Whilst Kylie and her manager wait, the trio quickly pen a tune.
Legend has it that a comment from Mike Stock ("She's come to make a hit? She should
be so lucky...") is the inspiration, and I Should Be So Lucky is born.
Kylie returns to Australia directly after recording to resume work on
Neighbours.
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November 1987
Locomotion reaches No.1 in New Zealand and Hong Kong, becoming Mushroom
Records' first international No.1. It also becomes a hit in Sweden, reaching No.10.
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December 1987
29th December - I Should Be So Lucky is released in
the UK.
With no time to record a video in between her hectic
Neighbours schedule, Kylie performs the song whilst being
driven around Sydney in the back on an open-topped BMW. The
resultant clip is aired on Christmas day on the BBC's
Late
Late Breakfast Show.
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January 1988
Kylie performs at Australia's Bicentennial Celebrations, attended by Prince Charles
and Princess Diana. As the popularity of
Neighbours
increases in the UK, the programme is
screened twice daily. Amidst stories of children wagging school to watch it and doctors
surgeries changing their hours to accommodate their patients' viewing tastes, the BBC
moves the second showing to early evening. The viewing audience in the UK increases to
more than the entire population of Australia.
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30th
January - With the popularity of
I Should Be So
Lucky taking off overseas, Kylie films a video for the
single at Channel 7 studios in Melbourne. Set in a trendy 80's
apartment, the idea was to disassociate Kylie from her
Neighbours alter-ego. As her creative director Amanda Pelman
comments for Australia's Countdown magazine: "Really we
wanted to make her the antithesis of Charlene. In
Locomotion Kylie was being a bit silly, playing
and having fun. This is still Kylie being herself, but it's
the next step, a bit more sophistication."
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February 1988
Kylie is presented with an award from the Australian Record Industry Association for
Locomotion being the highest-selling record of 1987.
Mike Stock flies to Melbourne to start
recording tracks for Kylie's debut album.
14th February -
I Should Be So Lucky climbs to No.1 in the UK.
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March 1988
Kylie wins a record-breaking FOUR Logie Awards:
the gold for 'Most Popular Personality on Australian TV', the
silver for 'Most Popular Actress'
for the second year running, 'Most Popular Personality on Victorian
(State) TV', and 'Most Popular Music Video in Australia' for Locomotion.
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Meanwhile,
I Should Be So Lucky has shot up the
Australian and UK charts becoming the first ever single to top both countries' charts
simultaneously. In the UK it is the first single for over ten years to stay at No.1 for
five weeks and becomes the biggest-selling single of the year. It is subsequently No.1 in
Germany, Finland, Israel, Switzerland, Japan and Hong Kong and holds Top Ten positions
over Europe.
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A video EP,
Kylie The Videos is
released in Australia, containing the clips for
Locomotion and
I Should
Be So Lucky, as well as a special 'behind the scenes' interview.
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April 1988
Accompanied by her mum, Kylie travels back to the UK to finish recording her
debut album with SAW at PWL Studios in London. To avoid media attention, she stays in Pete
Waterman's flat, whilst the Hitman re-locates himself to the Hilton hotel for the Easter
break!
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Kylie's manager Terry Blamey, along with
Pete Waterman and Mushroom Records' Gary Ashley, form PAL Productions, to handle all
Kylie's song publishing and recording rights in the UK and Australia.
I Should Be So Lucky enters the
Billboard Top 100 in the USA the week after release, peaking at No.28 and giving Kylie her
first Top 40 US hit.
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May
1988
2nd
May - Kylie's third single,
Got To Be Certain is released, which spends
several
weeks at No.2. The video is filmed around Melbourne and three different edits are
made, combining shots of Kylie on a merry-go-round, in an artist's studio and dancing in a
coffee-house.
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June 1988
In Australia, Kylie celebrates her third consecutive No.1 hit and
Got To Be Certain makes history by being the first ever single to enter the
charts at the top spot.
Kylie appears on Australian TV on
Hey,
Hey It's Saturday, where she performs
Look My Way (from her forthcoming album)
completely live.
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After two and a half years as Charlene,
Kylie decides to leave
Neighbours to concentrate on her singing career. Her storyline is
left open, with Charlene moving to Brisbane rather than being killed off, so that Kylie is
free to return if she wishes.
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July 1988
I Should Be So Lucky reaches No.1 in Japan and holds the position for
an incredible 12 weeks!
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4th
July - Her debut LP,
Kylie is
released, entering the UK and Australian charts at No.2. In Australia it turns double
platinum, gold in the UK and Singapore. The album is launched at a cocktail party in
London where Kylie is presented with gold and silver discs for
I Should Be So
Lucky and
Got To Be Certain.
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25th
July - The Loco-motion (the re-recorded, SAW-produced version of her debut hit)
is released and enters the UK chart at No.2. Kylie now holds the record for the highest
entry in the UK single charts by a female artist - the record was previously held by
Madonna. As Kylie-mania sweeps the UK, Kylie makes her debut appearance on
Top Of The Pops
and the LP
Kylie hits No.1 (where it stays for four weeks). During her visit
to the UK, Kylie is shadowed by a film crew making a documentary about her for Australian
TV's current affairs programme
Page One.
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September 1988
The Loco-motion is released in the USA and enters the Billboard Chart
in the Top 40 (14th). Kylie travels Europe to promote the single and her album. Kylie is
interviewed for the Australian edition of Rolling Stone magazine whilst at a photoshoot
commissioned by her Japanese record company. An early insight into Kylie's gradually
developing sense of style, the slightly sexier and more natural shots mark the first time
that Kylie works with photographer Grant Matthews and his wife Nicole Bonython who is to
become her personal stylist.
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October 1988
17th October - Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi is released in the UK, debuting at No.2. Kylie
performs the AA-side,
Made In Heaven at the Royal Variety Performance in the
presence of the Queen Mother. During promotion of the single on kids' Saturday morning
show
Going Live!, Kylie is joined by Dannii (Dannii's first ever appearance on UK TV).
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November 1988
The Loco-motion reaches No.3 in the USA, with sales in excess of half a
million. In the wake
of the single's success Geffen Records release a follow-up single,
It's No Secret,
as Kylie travels to America for promotion. Notable appearances
include live performances of both singles on
The Arsenio Hall
Show.
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Meanwhile, in the UK,
Neighbours mania
continues, along with increased interest in Kylie and Jason's real-life relationship. With
Jason embarking on his own singing career (his debut single,
Nothing Can Divide
Us is also produced by SAW and earns him a Top Five hit) and the imminent screening
of Scott and Charlene's wedding, Kylie and Jason are persuaded to release a duet. The
result,
Especially For You is rush-recorded and
released (28th), debuting at No.2.
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A video collection, cunningly entitled
Kylie - The Videos is released and enters the UK video chart at No.1, where it
stays for three months.
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December 1988
In what has been a phenomenal 12 months, Kylie ends the year with both
Especially For You and the
Kylie LP (now six times platinum)
sitting pretty at No.2 in the UK and her video collection at No.1. In Finland,
Je Ne
Sais Pas Pourquoi becomes her fourth consecutive No.1 single.
I Should Be So Lucky is voted
'Record Of The Year' at the Japanese Popular Disc Awards.
21st December - in Japan,
Turn It Into Love
is chosen as the
follow-up single to The Loco-motion.
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January 1989
As Kylie and Jason continue promotion in the UK,
Especially For You
becomes the first No.1 of 1989. Elsewhere,
The Loco-motion reaches No.1 in
Canada, while in Japan, even with no video or remixes to accompany its
release, Turn It Into Love hits No.1
and stays there for an amazing 10 weeks!
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25th
January - Kylie has her third U.S. hit when
It's No Secret
reaches the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
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February 1989
Kylie the album turns gold in the USA, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Especially For You goes to No.1 in Hong Kong and sticks there for six weeks.
Kylie poses for a waxwork model at the
World famous Madame Tussaud's in London. She also returns to the PWL studios to begin work
on her second LP.
25th February - It's
No Secret
and Especially
For You
are released in Japan
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March 1989
Kylie is nominated for five ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) awards,
with
I Should Be So Lucky
winning 'Biggest Selling
Single of 1988'. In Japan, Kylie-mania continues full-steam
ahead, as Kylie has FIVE singles in the Top 40: I
Should Be So Lucky at No.31, The
Loco-motion at No.27, It's
No Secret at No.4, Especially
For You at No.3 and Turn
It Into Love still at No.1!
Over the past year, Kylie has spent 27 weeks at the No.1 spot
in Japan!! To celebrate, Alfa Records release Kylie's
Remixes, an LP of extended
versions and 12" remixes of her singles.
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April 1989
Music Week award Kylie with their
'Top Album Award' for
Kylie and
'Top Video
Award' for Kylie -
The Videos.
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24th
April - a brand new single,
Hand On Your
Heart is released and debuts at No.2 in the UK. The video features Kylie wearing
three brightly coloured dresses, dancing in a room full of mirrors. Kylie is hoping to be
joined by her dancers for the clip, but in the end has to perform by herself. The result
is what Kylie later admits to being one of her least favourite videos...
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May 1989
A week after release,
Hand On Your Heart reaches No.1 in the UK on the
Singles Chart, Dance Chart and Indie Chart. The single enters the Australian chart at
No.4, and upon entry in the West German singles chart, it is confirmed that since
I
Should Be So Lucky, not a day has gone past when Kylie has not had a single in the
Top 40! Meanwhile, behind the 'Iron Curtain' in the German Democratic Republic, an EP of
Kylie's hits is released, a scant few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In
France,
Especially For You goes to No.1 and
Je Ne Sais Pas
Pourquoi enters the Top 20.
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In Australia, Kylie celebrates her 21st
birthday on-set of her first feature film,
The Delinquents. The film is based
on the novel of the same name by Australian author Criena Rohan. Set in the 1950s, it
follows the story of Lola Lovell (Kylie) and Brownie Hansen (played by American actor Charlie
Schlatter), two teenagers who fall in love and are forced apart by their parents and the
authorities.
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July
1989
Kylie travels to London to finish recording her second album. Whilst there, she films
the video to her new single
Wouldn't Change A Thing, her first video shot
outside of Australia.
24th July - Wouldn't
Change A Thing
is released, entering at No.2 in the UK and No.10 in
Australia. In the USA, Kylie is presented with the AMPEX Golden Reel Award for Gold sales
of the Kylie LP and donates her cash prize to Greenpeace International.
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Kylie's waxwork is unveiled
in the Hall of Fame at Madame
Tussaud's in London.
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September
1989
With
her personal style gradually developing, Kylie is featured on the cover of
prestigious 'style-bible' Tatler.
Kylie performs
at the Miss Asia Pacific beauty pageant in Hong Kong.
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Kylie travels to Japan to put on her first
ever live concerts. The
Disco In Dream shows feature Kylie alongside Dead Or Alive and
Sinitta. Kylie is executive producer of her 40-minute, eight-song part of the show,
assisting in choreography with her dancer Venol John. Accompanying her on the 4-date tour
of Japan is her mum, who is in charge of wardrobe, and a film crew who are shooting the
trip for an hour-long TV special. Kylie performs for 38,000 fans in a single night in
Tokyo.
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October 1989
Kylie brings
her live shows to the UK as part of the Coca-Cola
Hitman Roadshow, alongside
several other SAW-produced acts.
9th October -
her second LP
Enjoy Yourself is
released, going double platinum upon release in the UK and entering the charts at No.1.
The album comes with a free poster and a Meet Kylie Competition. At
Kylie's insistence the sleeve of the album is made from
recycled paper.
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November 1989
Enjoy Yourself is released World-wide and enters the Top 10 in Hong Kong,
Ireland, Greece, Belgium, Norway, Japan and Denmark. In Australia the album goes gold and
enters at No.10.
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23rd
October - a new single,
Never Too Late is
released and goes silver, entering the charts at No.4. Kylie first performs the song at
the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party in London. Her final
Neighbours scenes are screened in
the UK.
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A compilation of her recent videos,
Kylie - The Videos 2 goes silver on day of release. The compilation includes
interview footage of Kylie and introduces her piano-playing skills to the World...
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Kylie is presented with her own 'star' at
the Walk Of Fame at Sydney's Hard Rock Cafe. The giant award is bigger than Kylie herself.
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December 1989
Kylie switches on the Regent Street Lights in London, a tradition normally reserved
for Royalty.
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Kylie joins with Bob Geldof, Bananarama,
Bros, Cliff Richard, Lisa Stansfield, Wet Wet Wet, Cathy Dennis and others for Band Aid
2's recording of
Do They Know It's Christmas? to raise money for Ethiopia. It
debuts at No.1 in the UK and holds that position over Christmas.
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Kylie's first movie,
The
Delinquents premieres in London, with over 20,000 fans crowding Leicester Square to
catch a glimpse of Kylie. More of a stir is caused at the Australian premiere in Sydney,
as Kylie arrives on the arm of INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. The couple started seeing
one another a few months previously, but had yet to appear in public together. Not only is
the pairing unlikely (given Kylie's sweet, girl-next-door persona and Hutchence's wild
rock 'n' roll star image), but Kylie's appearance is striking, as she sports a mini-dress
with a bold naughts and crosses design and a cropped, platinum-blonde hairstyle! The
shocking 'do' is later revealed as a wig.
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Kylie is voted 'The Best Female Vocalist'
at the Japan Radio Music Awards.
The TV special filmed in Japan,
Kylie
- On The Go is screened on Christmas Eve. Although Kylie's vocals have been
overdubbed so that it appears she was miming, the 'un-cut' version with her live vocals is
screened in Australia. Kylie makes an appearance on Hey Hey It's
Saturday, performing
Tell-Tale Signs (an album track) completely live.
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Kylie travels back to the UK, where
Enjoy Yourself has sold over a million copies and turned triple platinum. On
New Years Eve, she appears on the
Clive James' Review Of The Decade show, where she is
named 'Woman Of The Decade' and sees in the new decade performing
I Should Be So
Lucky!
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January 1990
8th January - Kylie's 11th international single,
Tears On My Pillow enters the UK charts
at No.2 and shortly rises to No.1.
Tears On My Pillow, a cover of a 50s hit by
Little Anthony And The Imperials, is Kylie's contribution to
The Delinquents
soundtrack and clips from the film are featured as the
backdrop in the video.
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Australian magazine Follow Me
carries a
feature on Kylie's fashion, interviewing Nicole Bonython on Kylie's gradually maturing
style.
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Kylie spends January rehearsing for her
upcoming tour. At the end of the month, she performs a warm-up gig at The Cadillac Bar in
Melbourne. Accompanied by her band, the gig is intended to be a secret and they are billed
as The Singing Budgies (the Singing Budgie being Kylie's nickname in the Australian
media).
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February 1990
The
Enjoy Yourself Tour begins in Australia and is a resounding success with fans and
critics alike, one journalism is prompted to write "It's time to ditch the snobbery
and face facts - the kid's a star!".
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Australian Variety Industry honours Kylie
with the Mo Award for 'Ambassador To Australian Showbusiness'.
In the UK, Kylie is presented with the
award for 'Top Music Video Of 1989' for Kylie - The Videos. Kylie begins
recording tracks for her new LP at PWL studios.
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April 1990
The European leg of the
Enjoy Yourself Tour kicks off in the UK. Prompted by Kylie's
appearance in a black cap and a crushed velvet catsuit, performing
The
Loco-motion to the background throb of Li'l Louis'
French Kiss, reviews
appear in the press with critics tagging the show as 'raunchy' and unsuitable for Kylie's
younger audience. Fans do not seem to mind and additional shows are added to the itinerary
to cope with demand.
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Kylie appears on
Going Live! to perform
Better The Devil You Know for the very first time. She and her dancers put the
finishing touches to the routine minutes before going on air. The song is a progression
for Kylie, sounding much more club-oriented and with a harder edge than her previous
tunes. Kylie apparently rejected the original mix of the single, wanting the song to sound
closer to her favourite tune of the moment,
C'mon And Get My Love by D-Mob and
Cathy Dennis.
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Another sign of her growing confidence, Kylie also takes control of the
design of her record covers and the look projected in her videos. The new confidence is
epitomised in the video for
Better The Devil You Know, where Kylie appears
wildly dancing in a little black dress against a backdrop of flames, in a short red wig
and silver hotpants and at one point, apparently naked and covered only by a man's arm.
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30th
April -
Better The
Devil You Know
is released in the UK, reaching No.2.
April also sees the video release of
Kylie On The Go - Live In Japan tour special with
footage of Kylie's
Disco In Dream and
Hitman Roadshow concerts
filmed the previous autumn.
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May 1990
5th May - Kylie performs at the John Lennon Tribute Concert in Liverpool, alongside
artists such as Cyndi Lauper, Lenny Kravitz and Lou Reed. Her chosen song is a very
different rendition of The Beatles'
Help!, complete with some Kylie-style
'voguing' during the routine.
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Kylie films a TV commercial for Coca-Cola,
featuring her ordering a pizza and a couple of Cokes to her hotel room. The ad follows the
delivery guy dodging hotel staff and security in order to deliver Kylie her goodies,
ending with the pair sharing the drinks at the end. Nice.
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Better The Devil You Know
reaches No.5 in Australia. The
Enjoy Yourself Tour continues through
Europe and Southeast Asia, finishing in Bangkok shortly before Kylie's 22nd birthday.
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June - September 1990
Enjoy Yourself
is released in the USA with brand new
cover artwork shot by Isobel Snyder.
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Kylie spends some time in LA recording and
for the first time co-writing tracks for her new album. Previously, her only attempt at
song writing came in the shape of a tune called
Love Traffic for her sister
Dannii's debut LP. She works with Stephen Bray (famous for his work with Madonna), Michael
Jay (who worked with Martika) and Keith 'KC' Cohen (who produced for Paula Abdul) on four
tracks. She also takes some time to prepare her new look for the album release, shooting
some glamorous photos in the Mojave Desert near LA. The new image is very much inspired by
60s sci-fi fantasy movie
Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda.
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Kylie shoots the video for her new single,
Step Back In Time around downtown Los Angeles. The song is a tribute to the
1970s, hence the video features Kylie wearing a host of outrageous 70s gear, including
hotpants and garishly colourful feathered jackets, her hair backcombed and her false
eyelashes firmly in place. In short, she has a ball filming the video, before
traveling back to London to finish the album at PWL.
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October 1990
22nd October - Step Back In Time is released, reaching No.4 in the UK, her 11th
consecutive Top 5 hit. Kylie promotes the song on various TV shows, including Saturday
morning show
Motormouth, where she also takes the opportunity to perform the title track
of her new album,
Rhythm Of Love. The track was one of those co-written and
recorded in LA without the assistance of SAW.
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Kylie causes a panic at PWL when she
announces on live TV - on Saturday morning kids' show
Going Live!
- a competition to win a limited edition copy of her new album with her
name written in gold leaf on the sleeve. The record company had decided not to release
this limited edition but no one had actually informed Miss Minogue. Therefore 100 copies
are hastily pressed and given to DJs as further competition prizes.
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November 1990
12th November - Kylie's third LP, Rhythm Of Love is released, going to No.9 in the UK and
No.10 in Australia. The album turns gold in the UK and Spain.
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Kylie is presented with the
'Diamond Award
for Music Excellence' in Brussels, and performs
Better The Devil You Know,
Step Back In Time and
Rhythm Of Love at the ceremony.
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December 1990
Kylie's ever maturing sense of style earns
her features in various fashion magazines, including Vogue (UK), which devotes a six-page
spread to her in their December issue, in which Kylie is dressed in jewel-encrusted
designer gear. Follow Me magazine in Australia carries a feature, entitled 'Kylie Vamps
Up', accompanied by a stylish set of black and white photos by Grant Matthews. The
striking shots show Kylie looking very different, mature and very sexy.
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Sales of
Rhythm Of Love reach platinum in the UK as Kylie films the video
for her next single,
What Do I Have To Do in London. Shot over two days, the
clip features 'SexKylie' at her best, with big hair and lashes, leather outfits and saucy
shots galore. One scene features Kylie with a huge (fake) tattoo of a panther on her back,
another shows her dancing and flirting with a woman at a club, sporting a beehive hairdo.
Her sister Dannii guest stars in the clip.
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January 1991
A readers' poll for best dance track in American DJ magazine Dance Music Reports votes
Better The Devil You Know No.7 and
Wouldn't Change A Thing
(Espagna Mix) No.60.
21st January - What Do I Have To
Do is released, remixed from its original form and charts at No.6.
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February 1991
Kylie s February's cover girl for Rolling
Stone magazine in Australia, which carries an exclusive interview, whilst in the UK
i-D
magazine features a leather-clad Kylie on the cover of their March issue.
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Kylie embarks on the
Rhythm Of Love Tour in Australia and the Far East, starting in
Perth. To commemorate the tour, the album is re-issued in Australasia with a gold, die-cut
sleeve and extra tracks - remixes of
Better The Devil You Know,
Step
Back In Time and
What Do I Have To Do.
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15th February - Kylie presents a cheque for
AU$10,391 to the Environmental Youth Alliance for the Australian Conservation Foundation.
The cheque is from video sales of
The Delinquents (Kylie donated $1 from the
sale of every copy) and the proceeds from the Sydney premiere of the film. The video
carries a three-minute personal message from Kylie about environmental issues.
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March 1991
Better The Devil You Know hits No.1 on Hitmaker Magazine's US Dance Trax
Import Chart.
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May 1991
20th May - release of Shocked,
the fourth single from
Rhythm Of Love, radically remodeled from its original album version
by DNA. The single version features a rap by Jazzi P and is the first Kylie single since
Locomotion to be mixed outside of PWL. The single peaks at No.6 in the UK and
Australia.
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Kylie is invited by Prince Albert of Monaco
to perform at the World Music Awards where she is presented with 'Best Selling Australian
Artist'.
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June 1991
Kylie enters the Guinness Book Of Records, surpassing the likes of The Beatles, Elvis
and Madonna as the first artist ever to enter the Top Ten with her first thirteen singles.
Rhythm Of Love is re-packaged
and re-released in the UK with bonus mixes of Step Back In Time,
What Do
I Have To Do and
Shocked.
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July 1991
Kylie returns to the PWL studios to record her fourth LP. Matt Aitken is no longer
with SAW, giving Kylie the opportunity to co-write some tracks with Mike Stock and Pete
Waterman.
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August 1991
With the LP complete, Kylie films the video for her brand new single,
Word Is
Out in Camden Lock (and the alleys at the back of the PWL studios!). The single is a
slightly different sound for Kylie, with more of a swing beat feel, rather than the
pounding, hi-energy throb of her recent hits.
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16th August - Promotion of the single
begins with a performance at the Radio One Roadshow in Plymouth, where Kylie announces she
is to tour the UK in the autumn.
26th August - Word Is Out
is released, entering the UK chart at No.16.
A second, limited edition twelve-inch is
issued in the UK, featuring the Summer Breeze Remix, which is released as the single
version in Australia, where it reaches No.10.
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October 1991
PWL issue a one-sided 12" white label under the name Angel K. The track,
I
Guess I Like It Like That, is a club/rave tune, borrowing a chunk of 2 Unlimited's
Get Ready For This. This is followed in December by a 12" of another rave
track called
Do You Dare. Angel K is later revealed to be Kylie after the
tunes became sizeable club hits.
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Kylie appears in fashion magazine The Face,
which carries an exclusive interview and photo session shot in a hotel room. She appears
on the cover curling her eyelashes.
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14th October - Kylie's fourth album, Let's Get To
It is released, going gold in its first week in the UK and receiving favourable
reviews in the music press. Combining a variety of styles, taking in
swing-beat, pop, with a touch of R 'n' B and techno for good measure, it peaks at No.15.
21st October - Finer Feelings is earmarked to
be the next single, but this is postponed in favour of If You Were With Me
Now, a soulful duet with US singer Keith Washington, with whom Kylie co-wrote the
track. If You Were With Me Now reaches No.4 in the UK charts as Kylie embarks
on her stadium tour of the UK.
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The
Let's Get To It Tour is
an
extension of the Australian
Rhythm Of Love
Tour, with Kylie having altered the set list to
include several tracks from the new LP. A stir is caused in the media as Kylie appears on
stage in a variety of outrageous costumes specially designed for her by John Galliano. The
costumes include a frilly bra and knickers set with a clear PVC jacket, a fishnet body
stocking with leather cap (the infamous 'S&M Bus Conductor' outfit!) and a skirt that
is ripped off by her dancers to reveal a tiny basque and suspenders. Unfortunately, the
media are so whipped into a frenzy by the 'raunchy' costumes that they fail to actually
review the show itself!
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November 1991
A new video collection,
Let's
Get To...The Videos
is released, featuring the clips to the singles from Rhythm
Of Love
and Let's
Get To It.
PWL release a single called Keep On
Pumpin' It, which is a radically remixed version of
I Guess I Like It Like
That. The single is credited to the Visionmasters and Tony King featuring Kylie and
peaks at No.47, without any promotion at all.
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January 1992
13th January - the third single from
Let's Get To It,
Give Me Just A Little More
Time is released and hits the Top Five. A remake of the 70s hit by Chairman Of The
Board, the song is featured in a TV commercial for Accurist watches. With a fun 'New
Orleans' theme video of a buxom Kylie and chums dancing in a coffee-house, the single
peaks at No.2.
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March 1992
Kylie is nominated as 'Best Australian Female Artist Of 1991' by the Australian Record
Industry Association.
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April 1992
13th April - A new single,
Finer Feelings is released. The track has been
drastically remixed by dance duo Brothers In Rhythm and is accompanied by a stylish black
and white video shot in Paris by director Dave Hogan. The single reaches No.11 in the UK.
On the same day, a video entitled simply
Kylie Live! is released, featuring footage from the
Let's Get To It Tour
filmed in Dublin. It enters at No.2 on the UK video charts.
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May 1992
Kylie is once again invited by Prince Albert to attend the World Music Awards in Monte
Carlo. During an interview whilst there, Kylie reveals plans for her forthcoming greatest
hits album which she tentatively believes will be called
Celebration.
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June 1992
Alongside the likes of Yasmin LeBon, Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer, Kylie
participates in the 'Rhythm Of Life' fashion charity gala at London's Grosvenor Hotel,
organised by Sting to raise money for the Rainforest Foundation. She appears on the
catwalk wearing a stunning John Galliano creation, lip-syncing to Marilyn Monroe's
'Lolita' routine.
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Kylie participates in a photo session and
interview with Scottish rockers Primal Scream for Select magazine who
famously question Ms Minogue as to how she feels about people
masturbating over pictures of her...
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July 1992
Kylie's Remixes Vol.2,
a compilation of remixes from Rhythm Of Love and
Let's Get To
It, is released in Japan.
Kylie and Dannii headline the Cesme Music
Festival in Turkey.
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August 1992
10th August - Kylie releases a brand new single What Kind Of Fool (Heard All
That Before) which she specially co-wrote and recorded for her greatest hits album.
The song is something of a return to her hi-energy pop sound and Kylie parodies the
Brigitte Bardot film And God Created Woman for the video, as
well as the poster artwork for Stanley Kubrick's Lolita.
What Kind Of Fool
reaches No.14 in the charts, continuing Kylie's unbroken run of Top 20
singles.
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24th August - Release of Kylie's
Greatest Hits double LP, featuring all her PWL singles, plus a brand new track
called
Where In The World?, a salsa-tinged lament for a long-lost love. Aww.
Also included is a cover of Kool And The Gang's
Celebration, one of Kylie's
all-time favourite tracks. She originally recorded the song for inclusion on the
Let's Get To It album and the track was produced by PWL remixers Phil Harding
and Ian Curnow. The
Greatest Hits album and the accompanying video collection
Greatest Video Hits both reach No.1 on their respective charts.
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November 1992
16th November - Release of what is to be Kylie's final single with PWL,
Celebration. The video is filmed in Rio, featuring Kylie larking about on a
beach, joined by several dancers from a mini Mardi Gras. It reaches No.20, meaning that
all of Kylie's solo singles with PWL have charted in the Top 20.
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February 1993
Kylie signs a new record deal with
deConstruction (through RCA/BMG) in the UK, Imago
(through BMG) in the USA and BMG throughout the rest of the World. In Australia and New
Zealand however, her releases are still through Mushroom Records. Kylie welcomes the move,
now 'stablemates' with dance acts such as K-Klass and M People and, although unsure which
direction her music is to take, is excited about the deal.
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April
1993
Kylie's
first recording session for her new label is
with Saint Etienne, covering their hit single
Nothing Can Stop Us, and a new
track When Are You Coming Home?. She also records several tracks with Italian
house producers The Rapino Brothers, probably best known for their revamping of Take
That’s Could It Be Magic?.
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June 1993
1st June - In Japan, a special CD called
Kylie's Non-Stop History 50+1 is
released, comprising of a 50-track megamix of almost every single track Kylie has
recorded.
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19th June - Kylie performs at Bang!
night-club in London as part of the Gay Pride celebrations and as a thank you to her
fiercely loyal gay following. Her five-song set consists of
Shocked,
Step Back In Time,
Celebration,
What Do I Have To Do
and her unofficial anthem,
Better The Devil You Know.
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October 1993
Kylie is invited by Baz
Luhrmann, the director of
Strictly Ballroom (and
more recently
Romeo & Juliet and
Moulin Rouge!), to pose at
Universal Studios in LA for world famous photographer Bert Stern. The "60's
style" spread in Australian Vogue covers 21 pages in the January 1994 edition.
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November 1993
Two new Kylie compilations are released in Japan.
Greatest Remix Hits
volumes 1 & 2, are both double CD sets, featuring remixes and B-sides including the
original 1987 recording of
Locomotion and a rare track from that time called
Getting Closer, which was originally intended to be the follow up single to
her debut hit.
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January 1994
Kylie starts the year at a family affair, the wedding of her sister Dannii and actor
Julian McMahon. She sings three songs at the reception,
Celebration,
Fly
Me To The Moon and
We Are Family.
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February 1994
In front of over 19,000 hysterical fans, Kylie performs
What Do I Have To
Do at the Lesbian And Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, onstage with 30 dancers.
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June 1994
Kylie is interviewed for The Face, where she talks about the recording of her first
deConstruction album confirming collaborations with Brothers In Rhythm,
Jimmy Harry, M People and the Pet Shop Boys, who write a song
especially for her called Falling.
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Although she is gearing up for the release
of the album, Kylie is contacted by director Steven De Souza who has spotted her on the
cover of Who Magazine in Australia and asks her to star in his new feature film,
Streetfighter. Based on the computer game of the same name,
Streetfighter is a $40M movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Kylie
accepts the role and filming commences in Thailand and Australia’s Gold Coast. For
her role as British intelligence officer Cammie, Kylie has to learn kickboxing and how to shoot a bazooka gun! "They bring
in the guns and I'm like Bam! Bam! Bam! The film crew are like 'she didn't even blink.
Even Mel Gibson blinks when he fires his gun'..."
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August 1994
Release of the first single from the new album,
Confide In Me. A lush
production with exotic sounding strings backed by a full orchestra, the single is written
and produced by Brothers In Rhythm. It debuts at No.2 on the UK charts and in Australia
goes to No.1 where it stays for 5 weeks. The B-side tracks are the Saint Etienne cover
Nothing Can Stop Us and a recording of the Prefab Sprout song
If You
Don’t Love Me, which Kylie sings simply accompanied by Steve Anderson playing
the piano.
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Kylie performs an exclusive live show at
G-A-Y (formerly Bang!) at the Astoria club in London. She showcases tracks from her new
album, including
Confide In Me,
Falling and
Time Will Pass
You By, as well as
Shocked,
What Do I Have To Do,
Step
Back In Time and
Better The Devil You Know. She is awarded ‘Best
P.A. Of The Year’ at the club.
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A portfolio of new photos by Ellen Von
Unwerth and Katerina Jebb, entitled
Kylie Minogue 1994 is released to the
press in the format of a large, ‘coffee table’ style book bound with black
ribbon. A glossy magazine supplement of new shots by Rankin, called
The Kylie
Bible is given away free with Dazed & Confused magazine. Both books become much
sought after by Kylie’s fans in the years to come.
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September 1994
The album
Kylie Minogue is released, entering the charts at No.4 and No.3
in the UK and Australia respectively and immediately turning gold.
Kylie appears on the cover of Sky magazine
completely naked.
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November 1994
A new single,
Put Yourself In My Place is released, with a video where
Kylie floats in a spaceship, wearing a hot pink spacesuit that she gradually strips off.
This is Kylie’s take on the opening scene of Barbarella. The single
charts at No.11 in Australia and the UK.
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Kylie makes an unexpected guest appearance
in BBC sitcom
The Vicar Of Dibley, starring Dawn French.
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December 1994
Streetfighter is released in the US grossing over US$100,000 in the first
month making it the most successful movie ever based on a game.
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Kylie performs at the Smash Hits Poll
Winners Party (4th Dec) and the Prince's trust Gala Concert (6th Dec), singing
Put
Yourself In My Place atop a grand piano.
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10th
December - Kylie meets her ‘superfan’ on UK TV show
Don’t
Forget Your Toothbrush, where she performs her intended next
single
Where Is The Feeling? and
Rescue
Me (A Motown track originally by Martha and the
Vandellas).
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31st December - Kylie sees in the New Year
at the Venus Dance Party at a Sydney night-club. Wearing a white vest top spelling out
‘1995’ in sequins, she performs
Confide In Me,
Better The
Devil You Know,
Step Back In Time,
Shocked,
What Do I
Have To Do and
Where Is The Feeling? accompanied onstage by a posse of
drag queens.
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January 1995
Kylie records
Where The Wild Roses Grow with Nick Cave in Melbourne. The
duet was written by Nick with Kylie in mind and tells the story of Kylie’s character
Eliza Day who is murdered by her lover. Nick has actually been a long-time admirer of
Kylie and had wanted to work with her for quite some time. The song is recorded for his
Murder Ballads album to be released later in the year.
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February 1995
Kylie stars in a short film called
Hayride To Hell which is filmed in
Sydney. The film tells the story of a man who encounters a strange girl on his way home
one night who gets into his car, asks him to take her to a certain address very quickly
and promptly falls unconscious. Once they arrive at the address the girl wakes and runs
inside, leaving her bag behind. The man decides to follow her with strange
consequences…
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April - June 1995
Kylie spends time in LA filming a movie called
Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore
and Stephen Baldwin. The film is a comedy about two guys who become trapped inside a
controlled ecosystem inside a giant dome. Kylie plays Petra Von Kant, an oceanographer. In order to
stand out, she decides to dye her hair a striking red colour, a look she favours for some
months.
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May 1995
Jean-Paul Gaultier interviews Kylie on UK TV’s
Eurotrash. The programme films her
buying underwear in Paris and being photographed by French artists Pierre Et Gilles. For
the portrait, entitled 'Saint Mary MacKillop', Kylie is dressed as a nun wearing suspenders
and seated on a rocking horse.
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June 1995
Kylie appears on the front cover of Loaded magazine in the UK. It became their biggest
selling issue ever, selling over 150,000 copies, an average 40,000 more than its usual
figures.
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25th June - Kylie performs at G-A-Y at the
Astoria in London as part of the Gay Pride celebrations and is introduced onstage by her
sister Dannii. Kylie descends from the ceiling on a trapeze, surrounded by balloons to
sing
Step Back In Time,
Where Is The Feeling?,
What Do I
Have To Do,
Celebration,
Confide In Me and
Better The
Devil You Know. She is also awarded ‘Best P.A. Of The Year’ at the club
for the second year running.
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July 1995
A brand new re-working of
Where Is The Feeling? is released. The song has
been completely re-recorded into almost spoken word and turned into a dance epic by
Brothers In Rhythm. Additional remixes by David Morales and Felix Da Housecat are included
on the single and it debuts in the UK at No.16.
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Kylie performs acoustic versions of
Put Yourself In My Place and
If You Don’t Love Me live on
Radio One. She follows this up by performing the tracks again on MTV’s
Most Wanted.
21st July - Kylie re-records
Time
Will Pass You By with producer Paul ‘Wand’ Masterson, who is to remix the
song for Kylie’s intended next single.
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27th July - appearance at Cream’s
night at Club Ku in Ibiza, Kylie performs dance versions of
Confide In Me,
Where Is The Feeling? and
Better The Devil You Know for the
clubbing crowd.
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August 1995
4th August - Kylie’s first ever open-air festival performance as she performs
live at the Feile ’95 Festival in Cork, Ireland. Nick Cave joins her for the first
public performance of
Where The Wild Roses Grow.
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6th August - Kylie performs at the T In The
Park Festival in Scotland, accompanied by a nine-piece band. With a capacity of 30,000
people it was the first time the festival was sold out. During the hour-long set, Kylie
performs
Confide In Me,
Where Is The Feeling?,
Surrender,
Automatic Love,
Where The Wild Roses Grow,
Put Yourself In My Place,
Shocked,
Time Will Pass You
By and
Better The Devil You Know. Prior to the performance, Kylie takes
time out for an autograph session for her fans.
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October 1995
With a video featuring Kylie playing dead in a shallow pond as a snake slides over
her,
Where The Wild Roses Grow is released, going to No.11 in the UK and No.2
in Australia. Nick and Kylie sing the song live on
Top Of The Pops and are also
photographed together for the cover of NME.
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During London Fashion Week, Kylie models a
punk-style ripped red dress for designer Antonio Beradi.
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21st October - At Stonewall’s Equality
’95 bash for gay and lesbian rights, Kylie duets with a dragged-up Elton John on a
version of the Andrew’s Sisters’ song
Sisters. A photo of the
performance makes the cover of Gay Times.
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November 1995
Hayride To Hell,
the short film that she recorded earlier in the year is screened at the London Film Festival.
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January 1996
Sporting a newly cropped hairdo, Kylie performs with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in
Australia at the Big Day Out concerts.
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July 1996
6th July - for Gay Pride day, Kylie appears onstage to introduce two acts at the Pride
In The Park event on Clapham Common, London. Later that evening, she is the guest host at
G-A-Y's Pride Spectacular, introducing Bjorn Again, Margarita Pracatan, Bananarama and
Dannii. Although not performing herself, Kylie is persuaded to sing a few lines of Marilyn
Monroe's
I Wanna Be Loved By You and her sister joins her for a brief acapella
of Better The Devil You Know!
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7th July - having been persuaded
to appear
by Nick Cave, Kylie recites the lyrics to
I Should Be So Lucky at the Poetry
Olympics at the Royal Albert Hall. Kylie is later to put the experience down as a
cathartic moment in her career, when she was finally able to accept her 'girl-next-door'
past.
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Kylie records
GBI (German Bold
Italic) with Deee-lite DJ Towa Tei in Tokyo for his album
Sound Museum.
The song is a kooky tune written about a computer typeface! A second track,
Sometime
Samurai is also recorded but unreleased for several years...
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August 1996
15th August - Kylie joins Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds onstage at the Brixton Academy
to perform
Where The Wild Roses Grow.
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October 1996
Kylie and Nick Cave scoop the pools at the Australian Record Industry Association
awards for
Where The Wild Roses Grow winning 3 awards: ‘Best
Single’, ‘Best Pop Release’ and ‘Best Song Of The Year’.
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Kylie performs in her second short film,
Misfit, by Turner Prize nominee Sam Taylor-Wood. The film features
an androgynous, undressed Kylie, lip-syncing to an opera-singer's performance of
The Last Castrato.
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November 1996
Superstar DJ! Kylie spends a night spinning the discs at London’s Tramshed Club.
She also attends the MTV music awards held in London.
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December 1996
Kylie makes a guest appearance when she joins the Manic Street Preachers on stage at
the Shepherds Bush Empire to perform
Little Baby Nothing.
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Kylie makes a cameo appearance in an
Australian film called
Diana And Me starring Toni Collette (who starred as
Muriel in
Muriel's Wedding and more recently in
The Sixth Sense).
Kylie's scenes are shot in Covent Garden in London.
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i-D magazine publishes a
cheeky photo session in
which Kylie strips off in the back of a London cab.
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January 1997
Australia's New Idea magazine carry an exclusive interview
with Kylie, accompanied by a striking set of new photos.
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February 1997
Appearance in a special episode of
Men Behaving Badly to raise money for Comic Relief.
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May 1997
Kylie is asked to make a special appearance alongside John Farnham and Ray Charles at
the grand opening of the world's largest casino in Melbourne, Australia. The opening is
attended by 1500 invited guests included Victoria's Premier Jeff Kennett and Elton John.
Kylie performs a special arrangement of
I Should Be So Lucky.
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June 1997
Having recorded on and off for the past 18 months, with the likes of Brothers In
Rhythm, Dave Ball, Ingo Vauk and the Manic Street Preachers, Kylie puts the finishing
touches to her second deConstruction album, entitled
Impossible Princess. She
also shoots the visuals for her album cover with her boyfriend, photographer Stephane
Sednaoui.
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Anton Corbjin photographs Kylie for a piece
in English Elle magazine. Entitled 'Old Masters', the article consists of
various photographers' own interpretations of famous works of art. Anton chooses Van
Gogh's 'The Potato Eaters'.
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Sky magazine names Kylie and pop singer
Louise 'Babes Of The Decade' in their 10th anniversary edition and carries an exclusive
photo shoot and interview.
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July 1997
The press campaign for
Impossible Princess begins with interviews in i-D,
Attitude, Esquire and Ministry magazines.
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August 1997
Kylie flies to Almeria in southern Spain to shoot the video for the first single,
Some Kind of
Bliss. The video, directed by Dave Mould, features English actor
Dexter Fletcher who plays Kylie's partner in crime.
21st August - Kylie performs
Some
Kind of Bliss at the Radio One Roadshow in
Newquay, Cornwall.
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September 1997
Following the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the album title is deemed
inappropriate. Promotional copies are withdrawn and a press statement confirms that the
album is to be re-titled
Kylie Minogue.
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Release of
Some Kind Of Bliss,
co-written and produced by the Manic Street Preachers, which earns Kylie the title of
IndieKylie in the music press. She performs the song live on
TFI Friday and
Top Of The
Pops as the single peaks at No.22 in the UK.
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An MTV Special,
Some Kind of
Kylie is recorded live in front of a studio audience. Kylie performs four songs -
Some Kind of Bliss,
I Don't Need Anyone (also recorded with the
Manics),
Did It Again and
Confide In Me - along with a 'questions
and answers' section from the audience.
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October 1997
The video for
Did It Again is shot in London by Pedro Romanyi. The video
includes 4 Kylies, all of a varying persona - CuteKylie, DanceKylie, SexKylie and
IndieKylie - battling it out for supremacy!!!
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Nick Cave asks Kylie to perform a song with
him at The Jazz Cafe in Camden.
Still Your Face Comes Shining Through, written
only 4 days earlier was a rare treat for those fortunate enough to be there.
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Although delayed in other territories,
Impossible Princess is released in Japan.
Kylie's promotional tour begins in Europe
where she visits Paris and Hamburg. The following week she flies to Singapore and
Australia, stopping in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney, then onto Auckland, New
Zealand.
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November 1997
Kylie's promo tour
continues as she flies to Hong Kong for further promotional work for
Impossible
Princess.
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Kylie appears in the video for Towa Tei's
song
GBI. The video, shot in New York, was directed by Stephane Sednaoui and
features Kylie as a geisha girl. The single is released in Japan.
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The single
Did It Again is
released and reaches No.14. Kylie appears at G-A-Y to perform the song.
She also appears on Top Of The
Pops, accompanied by three drag
queens dressed as her other personas from the video.
Kylie performs an unreleased song with Nick
Cave in Ireland at The Belfast Festival.
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December 1997
Kylie is asked to do a reading from a book entitled
'Typical Girls', a
collection of short stories all written by women. The reading takes place at the ICA
Gallery in London.
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Kylie travels to New York to re-record and
remix
Breathe (her next single) with producer Todd Terry, who is best known
for his remix of Everything But The Girl's mega-hit
Missing.
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January 1998
12th January -
Impossible Princess is released in Australia and debuts at
number 4 on the ARIA Chart and number 1 on the Music Report Chart. Initial copies of the
CD come with an exclusive 3D cover.
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Kylie hosts
MTV Snowball in Austria, a
programme covering the snowboarding championships!
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February 1998
Appearance at the 20th
Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras where Kylie performs Better The
Devil You Know in front of 20,000 people! Wearing a sequinned red
outfit and little devil horns, she is joined onstage by numerous dancing
boys and drag queens.
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March 1998
As part of their 25th anniversary, Mushroom Records in Australia release a limited
edition CD single of
Better The Devil You Know featuring a brand new club
remix by Movers & Shakers.
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Breathe is released in the UK.
Featuring remixes by Todd Terry, Sash! and Nalin & Kane, the single enters the chart
at No.14. Ministry magazine makes Kylie their cover girl and carry an exclusive interview
and photos.
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After a very long wait Kylie
Minogue the album is finally released in the UK and debuts at No.10. Initial copies
of the CD feature a special 3D sleeve.
Kylie continues to promote the new album,
travelling to Norway, Denmark and Holland, along with planning her upcoming live tour due
to start in Australia in June.
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May 1998
Kylie travels to Australia to prepare for her tour. She performs a 'secret' warm-up
gig at Melbourne's Mercury Lounge under the stage name of Minx.
28th May - Kylie celebrates her 30th
birthday.
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June 1998
The
Intimate And Live Tour kicks off in Melbourne. An incredible success, most of the
shows sell out and the tour is eventually extended to 22 concerts! Kylie includes tracks
from her entire career, including a cabaret version of I Should Be So Lucky,
an unrecorded track called Free and also covers of the Clash's
Should I
Stay Or Should I Go? and ABBA's
Dancing Queen.
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Kylie does some instore signing sessions at
HMV stores. HMV give away a free CD called
Other Sides with purchases of the
Impossible Princess album. The CD includes
Tears,
Love Takes
Over Me and a previously unreleased track called
Take Me With You.
Impossible Princess turns platinum in Australia.
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July 1998
1st July - Kylie's Sydney
Intimate And Live show is recorded for an intended TV special.
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Kylie becomes the ambassador for
Australia's Kid's Helpline Charity, a 24-hour telephone counselling service for young
people. She is also involved in the Wicked Women campaign for breast cancer awareness and
donates
Take Me With You for inclusion on their compilation CD.
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2nd July - In Melbourne, a state reception
is held in Kylie's honour. Speaking about Kylie, Jeff Kennet, the Premier of the state of
Victoria, said that Kylie was a "wonderful ambassador for Australia wherever she
travels" and that "She has done a wonderful job and she is one who has
developed, in a sense, through adversity. She is now a much more proficient and
professional entertainer than she was."
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A compilation of remixed versions of
Kylie's recent singles is released in Australia. The two CD set titled
Impossible
Remixes also includes new versions of
Too Far by Brothers In Rhythm and
US producer Junior Vasquez.
Too Far is rumoured to be Kylie's new single and a
promo 12" of the new remixes is issued in the UK.
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A collection of Kylie's videos from her
deConstruction albums is issued in Australia.
The Kylie Tapes '94-'98 includes
Breathe,
Did It Again,
Some Kind Of Bliss,
Confide In Me,
Where Is The Feeling? and
Put Yourself In My
Place.
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Kylie brings her
Intimate And Live show to
the UK and plays three dates at the Shepherd's Bush Empire. She is so overwhelmed at her
fans' response that during her encore of
Better The Devil You Know at her
final show she cries onstage - bless!!
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August 1998
A triple vinyl set of the
Impossible Remixes album is released in the UK
with new artwork and re-titled simply
Mixes.
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Mushroom Records in Australia release
Greatest Remix Hits volumes 3 and 4. Both are double CD compilations of rare
remixes from Kylie's PWL days, including many previously unreleased mixes and a song
called
I Am The One For You which was recorded for the
Rhythm Of
Love LP in 1990 but left off the final album.
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October 1998
5th October -
Cowboy Style is released in Australia, including a special
'live' video filmed at a rehearsal of the song for one of the Intimate And Live shows. On
the same day, Arthrob Records in the UK release
GBI by Towa Tei featuring
Kylie, the single peaks at No.63.
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7th October - Kylie unveils her new waxwork
at Madame Tussaud's in London, one of only three remodels that the house of wax displays.
The original Kylie model appeared in 1989 and was well overdue for a makeover. Kylie
herself commented "her fingers were coming off, and she didn't look like me
anymore!".
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November 1998
Kylie begins filming in Sydney for
Sample People, written and directed by
Clinton Smith it is described as a "low-budget urban thriller", set around
Sydney's clubland. Kylie plays Jess, the girlfriend of a nightclub baron who gets involved
in a deep love triangle. Kylie states on her official website "I'm very much looking
forward to working on this film as it has been a long time since I have been involved in a
production like this one."
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14th November - Kylie performs at Mushroom
Records' Concert Of The Century at Melbourne's Cricket Ground. The show is to round off
the 25th Anniversary celebrations for the record label and features several of their most
successful artists. Dressed as a geisha girl, Kylie enters the stage on a giant birthday
cake to the intro of
GBI. After singing
Happy Birthday to
Mushroom, she performs a 20-minute medley of her hits including
Celebration,
I Should Be So Lucky,
What Do I Have To Do,
Step Back In
Time,
Wouldn't Change A Thing,
Turn It Into Love,
Confide In Me,
Too Far,
Shocked,
Never Too
Late,
Did It Again,
Hand On Your Heart and
Better the
Devil You Know.
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16th November -
GBI is released
in Australia.
Impossible Princess is
certified double platinum in Australia by the Australian Recording Industry Association,
with sales exceeding 140,000 copies.
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20th November - Kylie is signed to model
underwear for Swedish clothing company H&M (Hennes And Mauritz). Following in the
footsteps of former H&M models such as Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford, Kylie
appears on billboards across Europe in a series of photos taken by Ellen Von
Unwerth.
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26th November - it is announced that Kylie
is to 'part company' with deConstruction & BMG Records in the UK and Europe, due to
problems with the company, rather than being dropped. "I am no longer with
deConstruction Records" she tells AAP in Australia. "It was a mutual agreement
completely, which is great because it was very amicable. Thank God, because I would have
hated it to have been anything other than that. You become like family with a record
company, particularly with deConstruction. They're lovely, genuine, Northern
bastards!"
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30th November - Kylie's first ever live
album
Intimate And Live is released in Australia, taken from her tour earlier
in the year.
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December 1998
A video of the
Intimate And Live tour is released in Australia.
Kylie sees in the New Year by launching a
huge fireworks display in Sydney, rumoured to have cost $2 million.
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February 1999
Kylie records a track with the Pet Shop Boys for their forthcoming album. The track,
In Denial is backed by a full orchestra and is about a gay dad coming out to
his daughter. "The Pet Shop Boys are so talented," she says "the offer came
out of the blue. I have such fun with these little projects, there's no pressure because
it's fun and it's not your album. It's quite dramatic and musical, quite theatrical. I'm
singing in a fairly dramatic way. Craig Armstrong (Massive Attack) did all the string
arrangements. It's quite lovely and really catchy." Lyric soundbite: "You're not
admitting / You should be quitting / All these queens and fairies / And muscle
Marys..."
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March 1999
Kylie travels to Barbados to appear as Miranda in a production of Shakespeare's 'The
Tempest', her first ever stage role. Kylie announces plans to release a book later in the
year, tentatively titled
Kylie Evidence, in which she intends to include other
peoples' opinions of her, both celebrity friends and people she has never met, in a
mixture of articles, photos, stories and images. "In this book, I am both spectator
and participant, objective and subjective...I am celebrating and questioning what I have
known and that includes the achievements and embarrassments, loves, lessons, the amusing,
the reality and the possibility."
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April 1999
Kylie travels to New York to record with fellow Aussie Ben Lee, a cover version of
Duran Duran's
The Reflex for a forthcoming Duran Duran tribute album to be
released in Australia.
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In Sydney, she records a track for the
Sample People soundtrack, covering Russell Morris' 60s hit
The Real
Thing with dance producer Josh Abrahams. "I'm not sure how to describe it, but
it was great working with Josh. It's quite faithful, the original is so good you wouldn't
want to veer too much from it," Kylie comments.
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May
1999
Kylie arrives in Adelaide to film scenes
for another small film role, this time in Mushroom's first ever film production which is a
teen horror flick called
Cut. Co-starring American actress Molly
Ringwald (Pretty
In Pink,
The Breakfast Club), Kylie plays Hilary, a film
director who gets brutally murdered in the film's opening scenes!
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June 1999
Kylie signs to Parlophone Records (a subsidiary of EMI) and a press release confirms
she is already writing and recording for a new album. Kylie says: "I took my time in
choosing a new label and I am very excited about signing to Parlophone. There is much I
hope to achieve with my next album and I believe that anything is possible with this new
partnership. I have learnt a lot in the last couple of years and I am very enthusiastic to
make a record that is 'Kylie'."
A & R Director
at Parlophone, Miles
Leonard, states "Kylie is undeniably one of the most successful female solo artists
of our time. She can capture a broad range of fans across all age groups, whilst staying
ahead of her peers. She wants to make a pop album and we found that we have a shared idea
of what the next record will sound like. We've had great initial response from key
producers, Kylie is raring to get started with the album and I'm sure we'll get the Kylie
record that everyone has been waiting for!"
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In Vienna, Kylie appears at the Imperial
Palace Charity Fashion Show, wearing a very revealing Versace outfit.
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Kylie performs I Should Be So
Lucky and Where The Wild Roses Grow at The Meltdown Festival in London
with Sir Les Patterson, who chases her offstage with his false penis!!
Kylie spends time in the studios with
Robbie Williams working on tracks for her album, including a rumoured duet.
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September 1999
To celebrate Australian Vogue's 40th year, Kylie is featured on the cover in an
exclusive photoshoot with Elle MacPherson.
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October 1999
21st October - release of
Kylie the book, at a signing session held at
Selfridge’s department store in London. The book is a large,
hot-pink colour
'coffee table' style hardback, housed in a slipcase with a life-sized photo of Kylie's arm
on it. It features numerous photos, paintings, visual interpretations and pages of text
from the likes of Elton John, Boy George, Patrick Cox, Bono, Vivienne Westwood, Clive
James, Jason Donovan and Kylie herself. Profits from the book project are to be donated to
various charities.
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November 1999
7th November - Kylie headlines the grand opening of Sydney's Fox Studios, performing a
recreation of Marilyn Monroe's
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend (from
Monroe's film
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).
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Signing
sessions for the
Kylie book take
place in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
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December 1999
21st December - Kylie travels to East Timor to headline the Tour Of Duty concert for
Australian troops stationed there. Dressed in a cute Santa outfit, her set consists of
classic Christmas tunes
Santa Baby,
Rockin' Robin and
Jingle
Bell Rock, as well as Lulu's
Shout which she performs with John Farnham.
The experience of travelling to that part of the world and the things Kylie sees has a
profound effect on her and she states it has changed her life.
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February - March 2000
Kylie continues to record her new album. Meanwhile, new remixes of her contribution to
the
Sample People soundtrack,
The Real Thing, are released to
Australian DJs on a promo 12".
Along with Natalie Imbruglia, Kylie
presents the 'Best International Female' award to Macy Gray at the Brits.
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May 2000
Sample People is released in Australia.
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Parlophone release a one-sided white label
of
Butterfly, a track from Kylie's brand-new album
Light Years.
The track was written by Kylie and Steve Anderson and is produced by Mark Pichiotti. The
12" promo features the Sandstorm Dub version of the pounding club
track.
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Spinning Around is released to
radio and goes down an absolute storm. Co-written by Paula Abdul, the single is a funky
disco track and marks a definite return to Kylie's pop roots. The video features Kylie
dancing in a nightclub wearing a soon-to-be infamous pair of gold hotpants (!), the clip
reportedly costs £400,000 to make.
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June 2000
Promotion of the single begins in the press, with numerous magazine appearances in the
UK alone. Kylie's appearance on the cover of GQ magazine sparks controversy, when she is
photographed by Terry Richardson in a recreation of the famous Athena poster of a tennis
player lifting her skirt to reveal her bum! It is claimed that the magazine has airbrushed
her tiny thong out of the cheeky photo...
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10th June - Kylie performs at the opening
of a brand new nightclub, Essential in Manchester, showcasing some of the tunes from her
new album for the ecstatic crowd.
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17th June - Kylie performs a special set at
G-A-Y in London. Her setlist consists of Light Years (the title track of her
new album, a throbbing disco track in the same vein as Donna Summer's
I Feel
Love and Visage's
Fade To Grey),
Step Back In Time,
Victims (a cover of the Culture Club classic),
Your Disco Needs
You (written by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers, reminiscent of any Village People
track you'd care to name),
Spinning Around,
Butterfly and
Better The Devil You
Know.
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19th June -
Spinning Around is
released in the UK and Australia and enters both countries' charts at No.1, making Kylie
one of only two female artists (the second being Madonna) to have No.1 singles in the
eighties, nineties and noughties!
Spinning Around is Kylie's fifth UK and
Australian No.1 and is her first single to enter the charts at the top spot in the UK.
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July 2000
1st July - Kylie co-hosts and performs
Spinning Around at Mardi Gras in
London.
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Her appearance at Capital FM's Party In The
Park in London turns into a near disaster as the heavens open on the open-air stage,
forcing Kylie to swap her Manolo's for a pair of trainers! Unfortunately, the rain also
causes the sound monitors to cut out so she is unable to hear her music or her own voice.
Nevertheless, Kylie and her dancers battle on through their performance of
Step Back
In Time,
What Do I Have To Do and
Spinning Around.
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Kylie visits Ibiza for an exclusive club
performance. Whilst on the island she is photographed for the cover of
Light
Years.
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August 2000
5th August - Kylie appears at Amsterdam's Gay Pride Festival, performing
Step
Back In Time,
What Do I Have To Do,
Spinning Around and
Better The Devil You Know. She also takes the time to attend a signing session
at the city's Fame music store.
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Kylie films the video for her new single
On A Night Like This in Monte Carlo. The sinister video
depicts Kylie as the wife of a gangster, played by Rutger
Hauer, at the casino
draped in £2M worth of diamonds.
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20th August - Kylie performs
On A
Night Like This and
Spinning Around at Radio One's One Big Sunday show
in Plymouth in front of an estimated 60,000-strong crowd.
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29th August - the BBC broadcasts the debut
performance of
Kids, a duet with Robbie Williams, for a
Top Of The Pops Robbie
special.
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September 2000
Release of the second single from
Light Years,
On A Night Like
This. The single is produced by Brian Rawling, responsible for Cher's almighty hit
Believe and is very Euro-pop. It enters the UK chart at No.2 and the
Australian chart at No.1, making it Kylie's sixth Australian No.1 hit.
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25th September -
Light Years is
released to several glowing reviews from the music press. The disco theme introduced by
Spinning Around is evident throughout the whole album, which features
collaborations with Biff Stannard & Julian Gallagher, Robbie Williams & Guy
Chambers, Mark Pichiotti, Johnny Douglas and Steve Anderson. The CD includes a special
hidden track called
Password, found at the beginning of the album by rewinding
Spinning Around! The album enters the UK and Aussie charts at No.2, Kylie's
highest charting (studio) album since 1989's
Enjoy Yourself.
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It is confirmed that Kylie is set to make a
cameo appearance in Baz Luhrman's new film
Moulin Rouge!, starring Ewan
McGregor and Nicole Kidman. The film is set in Paris in 1900 and tells the story of a
writer (Ewan) and a French courtesan (Nicole). Kylie is to play The Green Fairy, who
appears to Ewan in an absinthe-induced hallucination!
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October 2000
2nd October - Kylie makes the performance of a lifetime at the spectacular closing
ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games as only she can. Joining such Aussie stars as INXS,
Elle MacPherson and Midnight Oil, she arrives in the stadium atop a giant flip-flop, to be
carried onstage on a surfboard by a group of hunky lifeguards. Dressed in a big floppy hat
and short dress, she is surrounded by dancers onstage and emerges resplendent in a
sequinned pink outfit with pink feather headdress to rip through a rendition of
Dancing Queen. After the arrival of a troupe of drag queens in a
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert tribute, Kylie reappears in a shimmering gold
dress to perform the very apt
On A Night Like This. The ceremony ends with a
gigantic fireworks display across the city and is viewed by an estimated 4 BILLION people
worldwide!
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Continuing the Olympics theme, Kylie is
featured on the cover of Australian Rolling Stone magazine wearing a bikini and clutching
a gold medal.
On A Night
Like This
re-enters the No.1 position on the Australian charts.
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9th October - release of
Kids
in the UK, entering the UK charts at No.2. The video features Kylie and Robbie cavorting
around surrounded by showgirls and boys and ending up in a clinch in a swimming pool.
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15th October - Light Years goes
to No.1 in Australia, Kylie's first ever album to reach the top spot in her homeland.
16th October - Release of
Hits+, a retrospective of tracks from Kylie's time at deConstruction. The CD
features singles, B-sides and remixes, as well as four previously unreleased tracks -
Difficult By Design,
Gotta Move On,
Stay This Way and
This Girl.
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Following
her triumph at the Olympics closing ceremony, Kylie headlines the opening ceremony of the
Sydney Paralympics, performing
Waltzing Matilda,
Celebration and
Spinning Around.
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November 2000
Spinning Around wins 'Best Pop Release' at the ARIA Music Awards in
Australia.
Kylie films a commercial for Pepsi,
featuring On A Night Like This and a magical TV remote that makes her come to
life out of the TV!
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Kylie announces her first UK tour in nine
years, set to kick off in March 2001. A press statement from her management company reads:
"Not one for the minimalist approach to live shows, it is expected that the
forthcoming shows will build-on the theatrical extravaganzas she has devised for previous
tours. Sequin and glitter stocks are running high."
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16th November - Kylie and Robbie perform
Kids at the MTV Europe Awards in Stockholm, Sweden. Kylie steals the show
wearing a very revealing sparkling silver dress. The other highlight of the evening is an
appearance by Madonna, who performs her single
Music dressed in a black
T-shirt emblazoned with the words 'Kylie Minogue'!!!!
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December 2000
11th December - The
flamenco-flavoured
Please Stay is released in the UK
and Australia, featuring a video with Kylie in full-on camp mode complete with revolving
bed, fireman's pole and a dance routine atop a pool table! The single reaches No.10 in the
UK, giving Kylie her 20th Top Ten hit, and meaning that all the
Light Years
singles have gone Top Ten.
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Kylie appears on various TV shows to
promote
Please Stay, including live performances on
TFI Friday,
The National
Lottery,
CD:UK and the Royal Variety performance, where she also performs
Spinning
Around. For a
Top Of The Pops Christmas
Special, Kylie performs
Santa
Baby, the B-side of the single.
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Kylie travels back to Australia for
Christmas and films her scenes for
Moulin Rouge! in Sydney, singing
The
Sound Of Music for her role as the mischievous Green Fairy.
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January - February 2001
Never one to let the grass grow under her feet, Kylie begins work on new material for
her next album, recording again with Biff Stannard and Julian Gallagher.
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22nd January - Release of
Your Disco
Needs You in Germany. The song, considered by many of Kylie's fans to be her new
anthem, is remixed for release. Kylie films a special video in LA, with a very 'Uncle Sam'
feel to it and featuring an army of marching Kylies! Kylie travels to Germany for
promotion, including a performance on German TV's No.1 show
Wetten Dass. She also records
a performance for
Top Of The
Pops.
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Kylie makes a guest appearance on
An
Audience With Ricky Martin, joining the Latin American star to sing
Livin' La Vida
Loca.
Light Years turns platinum in
the UK, with sales of over 300,000, and triple platinum in Australia.
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March 2001
3rd March - the
On A Night Like This Tour
begins in Glasgow to a packed venue. Kylie
is lowered onto the cruise ship stage on a giant glittering anchor, launching into a camp,
Vegas-type show. Kylie performs a mixture of old and new material, including a brand new
song called
Can't Get You Out Of My Head
which was written by Cathy Dennis.
The tour is set to conclude in the UK in London at the end of the month, before moving
onto Europe and then taking in Australia through April and May.
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A limited edition re-release of
Light
Years is issued with new artwork to coincide with the tour, including a bonus disc
of remixes from Kylie's recent singles. The Australian tracklisting is slightly different
to the UK, including her cover of Olivia Newton-John's
Physical, originally
intended for inclusion on the soundtrack to Moulin Rouge!. Festival
Mushroom Records in Australia give away a free Kylie CD-ROM with purchases of
her albums.
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26th March - Fan petitions on the Internet
bring about the release of
Your Disco Needs You as a limited edition CD single
in Australia. The single enters the charts at No.25, whilst
Light Years turns
4x platinum.
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April 2001
The tour hits Australia as Kylie's Sydney shows sell out. Further dates are added, so
that her shows at the Sydney Entertainment Centre total nine, beating the record
previously held by AC/DC for the number of dates held at the venue in a single tour. It
also means that Kylie becomes the most successful female to tour Australia, playing to an
estimated 250,000 people.
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May 2001
The LoveKylie underwear range is launched at Melbourne Fashion Week.
15th May - The On A Night Like This Tour
ends in Sydney with a special performance filmed for a TV special.
Australian Style magazine carries an
interview and photos taken by Rankin in London, whilst Kylie makes the cover of Vogue in
the UK in an exclusive photoshoot by Vincent Peters.
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Kylie records a cover of a song called
Bury Me Deep In Love (originally by The Triffids) with Jimmy Little, for a
special album to be released by Festival Mushroom Records. Called
Corroboration, the album is a set of collaborations between indigenous and
non-indigenous Australians and is due for an August release.
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June 2001
As Kylie continues work on her new album, Mark Pichiotti, the producer behind
Butterfly unveils plans to release the track on his record label Blue 2 (part
of Chicago's Blue Plate Records). A set of remixes is made, the first of which appear on a
double 12" test-pressing.
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July 2001
Kylie films the video for her new single
Can't Get You Out Of My Head,
which reportedly costs £250,000. Directed by Dawn Shadforth, who directed the
Spinning Around clip, it has a futuristic setting and features Kylie driving a
bright yellow sports car and performing with a troupe of dancers. At one point, she is
draped in an incredibly revealing white shroud, which looks somewhere between Princess
Leia and Grace Jones!
9th July - In Sydney, Kylie is awarded the
Mo Award for 'Performer Of The Year'
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August 2001
3rd August -
Can't Get You Out Of My Head promotion begins. The structure
of the song is quite simple, with a non-stop, throbbing bassline, vaguely reminiscent of
Kraftwerk's
The Model. However, the track signifies a change in style for
Kylie, with a more progressive dance sound. Kylie announces during an interview on Capital
FM that her new album is to be called
Fever. She also mentions that she will
be filming
An Audience With Kylie for ITV (UK TV channel) in September.
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The track hits radio all over Australia and
the UK, receiving incredibly positive reactions and becoming 'A' listed on several
stations. 12" promos are released to the clubs under the name Special K.
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15th August -
Can't Get You Out Of My
Head becomes the No.1 and No.2 most added track to radio in Australia and the UK
respectively. Details of the forthcoming album are revealed in Music Week magazine, with
the release date confirmed as 1st October.
It is confirmed that Kylie has recorded the
theme tune to a new ITV soap called Night &
Day. The track is called
Always
& Forever.
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18th August - Kylie makes an appearance at
the V2001 Music Festival in the UK and goes down a storm in the packed-out JJB dance tent,
the most popular attraction of the day. Her 75 minute set (in which she fits in three
costume changes!) consists of
Light Years,
Shocked, the
PWL Medley (from the tour),
Can't Get You Out Of My Head,
Koocachoo,
In Your Eyes (from the new album),
Butterfly,
Kids,
What Do I Have To Do,
Better
The Devil You Know and
Spinning Around. She repeats the performance the
next day with a similarly huge reaction.
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September 2001
2nd September - Kylie performs at Radio One's One Big Sunday show. Much is made in the
media of the supposed 'rivalry' between Kylie and Victoria Beckham, whose debut solo
single is due for release the same day as
Can't Get You Out Of My Head.
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3rd September - Kylie attends the London
premiere of
Moulin Rouge!.
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10th September -
Can't Get You Out Of
My Head is released in Australia and is certified platinum of pre-sales figures
alone. The single sells an estimated 100,000 copies in its first few days and by the end
of the week has turned double platinum. It enters the charts at No.1, Kylie's seventh
Australian chart topper. In the UK, the single is No.2 in the Official Airplay Chart and
Independent Local Radio Chart and No.1 in both the Top Ten 'Growers' list and Top Ten
Pre-releases, as well as high club chart placings. It enters the Pepsi Chart at No.14 on
airplay alone.
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17th September -
Can't Get You Out Of
My Head is released in the UK, selling over 125,000 copies in its first few days and
very nearly outselling the rest of the Top Ten altogether.
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Kylie is involved in promotion of a
different kind when a TV commercial for Eurostar (the train service running between London
and Paris) is aired in the UK. Kylie talks us through her relaxing journeys when she's off
for a hard day's shopping in Paris and is seen on the train and out and about in the city,
at one point sliding down a banister rail, and even larking about in a bridal gown!
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23rd September -
Can't Get You
Out Of My Head
enters the
Official UK charts at No.1 and also secures Top Ten placings in various European countries
including Ireland (No.1), Hungary (No.1), Denmark (No.1), Italy, Sweden, Austria, Spain,
Germany, Norway and The Netherlands.
In the USA, a second promo 12" for
Butterfly is released with brand new remixes, entering the US Club Chart just
outside the Top 40. It eventually climbs to No.14.
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October 2001
1st October - release of Kylie's eighth album
Fever. Featuring
collaborations with Steve Anderson, Mark Pichiotti, Biff Stannard & Julian Gallagher
and Cathy Dennis, the album is a collection of solid dance tunes. The striking cover shows
Kylie in a dinky white outfit and stilettos, stood clutching a microphone. The same day
also sees the release of
Live In Sydney, the last show from the
On A Night
Like This Tour, on video and DVD. Both the album and the video enter the UK charts at
No.1.
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Can't Get You Out Of My Head
continues to hit the top spot in countries around the world, whilst maintaining its No.1
position in both the UK and Australia.
Kylie is awarded 'Best Female Solo Artist'
and 'Best Pop Release' (for Light Years) at the ARIA Awards in Australia.
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6th October -
An Audience With
Kylie is screened in the UK, earning over 7 million viewers. Featuring Kylie
performing various tracks and answering questions from a celebrity audience, guests
include her sister Dannii, her brother Brendan, Boy George, Julian Clary, various members
from
Big Brother and Anne Charleston, who played Charlene's mum Madge in
Neighbours. Kylie
performs a tap routine to
Better The Devil You Know accompanied by Adam Garcia
and also sings
Especially For You with none other than Kermit the Frog!
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8th October -
Fever is released
in Australia and enters the Aussie charts at No.1.
Kylie is named 'Female Style Icon Of The
Year' at the Elle Magazine Fashion Awards.
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Can't Get You Out Of My Head is
confirmed to be the most played song on UK radio in 2001, receiving over 3000 radio plays
in one particular week, the most plays for any track ever!
17th October - Kylie announces plans for a
stadium tour of the UK in April/May 2002. The tickets sell out within a matter of minutes,
so further dates are added, extending the tour to 22 dates in the UK alone. Some shows in
mainland Europe are also confirmed.
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November 2001
10th November - Kylie performs
Can't Get You Out Of My Head at the MTV
Europe Awards on a huge futuristic 'spaceship' set with 50 or so dancers. The awards are
seen by an estimated 1 billion viewers around Europe.
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Can't Get You Out Of My Head
continues its reign in Europe, topping the charts in an astonishing 34 different countries
and becoming the biggest selling single of Kylie's entire career. Interest in the single starts to pick up in
the USA and Capitol Records decide to release the song 'to radio'.
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21 Kylie internet fan sites join forces to
present 'The Kylie Awards 2001', celebrating her achievements of the last 12 months and
congratulating those people who have been pivotal in ensuring Kylie's continued success.
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Kylie is awarded 'Best Comeback Of The
Year' at the BAMBI Awards in Germany as
Can't Get You Out Of My Head becomes the most played track
on German radio ever within one week. The same week she pushes the first domino in a new
world record domino-toppling attempt in Maastricht! She also travels to Holland for
further promotion, where
Can't Get You Out Of My Head has been No.1 for
a phenomenal six
weeks.
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Confide In Me, a compilation CD
of tracks from Kylie's deConstruction albums, is released by BMG on their Camden label.
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An advert for Agent Provocateur opens at UK
cinemas, featuring Kylie modelling the company's sexy underwear whilst riding a mechanical
bull to the sound of Main Offender
by The Hives. Her aim, she explains before
mounting the bull, is to prove that Agent Provocateur's underwear is the sexiest in the
world. Upon dismount, a breathless Kylie challenges all the men in the audience to stand
up...
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Kylie films the video to her new single
In Your Eyes in London. Directed by Dawn Shadforth, the video features Kylie
in a futuristic setting dancing among banks of coloured lights.
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26th November - performance at The Spanish
Music Awards.
30th November - Kylie wins two awards at
the first Top Of The Pops Awards - 'Top Single Of The Year' for Can't Get You Out Of My Head and
'Top Tour' for the On A Night Like This
Tour.
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December 2001
Interest in
Can't Get You Out Of My Head picks up in America, with the
track getting a full promo release and airplay on the increase. In Canada, the single
enters the Top 20.
9th December - Kylie performs at the Smash
Hits Poll Winners Party and whilst she does not win an award, photos of her appearance make the
newspapers the following day.
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11th December - Kylie wins three awards at
the Italian Dance Music Awards - 'Best International Female', and 'Best Song'
and 'Best Video' for
Can't Get You Out Of My Head.
Heat magazine in the UK award Kylie 'Best
Dressed Female Of 2001'.
Fever is awarded triple platinum in the UK.
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January 2002
Capitol Records confirm plans to release
Fever in February, which will be
Kylie's first album release in the States since
Enjoy Yourself in 1990.
Australian group Gerling release their
album When Young Terrorists Chase The Sun which features Kylie on the vocals
of the funky house track The G-House Project.
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Can't Get You Out Of My Head
enters the US Billboard Charts at No.64, from airplay alone and begins a steady ascent.
The promo 12" reaches No.1 on the Billboard Dance Charts. Meanwhile, the single is
confirmed as having sold over 2.5 million copies around the world, reaching No.1 in every
single Western European country (except Finland No.2!). In the UK it has become her
biggest-selling single ever, remaining in the singles chart 3 months after release.
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21st January -
In Your Eyes is
released in Australia and enters the charts at No.1. This makes it Kylie's eighth
Australian No.1, five of which have entered the charts at the top position. In the UK the
track is at No.4 in the airplay charts, even though it will not be commercially available
for another month.
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Kylie wins 'Best International Song' for
Can't Get You Out Of My Head at the NRJ Awards in Stockholm.
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February 2002
Kylie travels to the USA for promotion, appearing on
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
and The Late Late Show With Craig
Kilborn. She also does a special signing session at the
Virgin Megastore in New York's Time Square. In LA, looking very 'Joan Collins', she shoots
a photosession with David LaChapelle for Flaunt Magazine.
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18th February -
In Your Eyes is
released in the UK. Featuring remixes by Roger Sanchez and Jean-Jacques Smoothie, the
single peaks at No.3 in the Official Charts after reaching No.1 on the Airplay Charts.
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20th February - Kylie's night as she
attends the Brit Awards. Wearing a white Dolce and Gabbana dress and knee-high silver
boots, she delivers a sensational performance of
Can't Get You Out Of My Head
blended with New Order's
Blue Monday, arriving onstage on a giant CD. She wins
'Best International Female' and 'Best International Album' for
Fever and
predictably grabs the front page of every newspaper in the UK the following day.
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26th February - Fever is
released in America and enters the Billboard Hot 100 at an impressive No.3 the following
week.
In the UK, Kylie wins 'Best Pop Act' at the
NME Awards.
28th February - Kylie wins 'Best
International Song' at the Edisson Awards in Holland (the Dutch equivalent to the Brits).
She performs In Your Eyes at the ceremony.
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March 2002
3rd March - Kylie attends a Dolce and Gabbana fashion show in Milan.
5th March - Kylie performs
In Your
Eyes at the San Remo Festival in Italy, thanking the crowd in Italian with her
speech written on her hand.
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Blueplate Records release a limited edition
CD maxi-single of Butterfly, exclusively available through their website.
6th March - Kylie is awarded 'Best Selling
Australian Artist' at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo where she performs the
Blue Monday remix of
Can't Get You Out Of My Head.
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16th March - Kylie appears on US TV on
Saturday Night Live with Sir Ian McKellen, where she takes part in a short sketch and
performs
Can't Get You Out Of My
Head and
In Your Eyes completely live.
Can't Get You Out Of My Head reaches No.7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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21st March - Kylie's Agent Provocateur ad
wins 'Best Cinema Commercial Of The Year' at the British TV Awards. Live In
Sydney wins 'Best Music Video' at The Australian DVD Awards.
Kylie continues promotion of
Can't Get You Out Of My Head in South America, performing on MTV's
Spring Break.
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27th March - Kylie wins
'Favourite
International Female' and 'Favourite International Song' for Can't Get You Out Of My Head at the
Capital FM Awards 2002 for Help A London Child.
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April - May 2002
Kylie takes on her biggest project yet as the
KylieFever2002 Tour kicks off in
Cardiff at the end of April. The sci-fi themed shows begin with Kylie onstage in a robotic
suit - the Ky-Borg - which opens to reveal her inside wearing a glittering bra top,
mini-skirt and silver boots. Clad in numerous Dolce and Gabbana outfits, Kylie performs
re-vamped versions of many of her hits, including a techno version of
I Should Be So
Lucky / Dreams, a Prince-style
Locomotion and a hip-hop
Cowboy Style.
Light Years is mixed with Donna Summer's
I
Feel Love, whilst
In Your Eyes turns into a
flemenco-fest!
One of the Manchester dates is filmed for
an intended video release and is also broadcast live across the internet to over a million
people. The Manchester Evening News Arena presents Kylie with a plaque in recognition of
having the most number of shows by a solo artist to sell out the arena ever! The tour is
completely sold out as it moves into mainland Europe at the beginning of June.
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Can't Get You Out Of My Head
wins 3 Ivor Novello Awards: Best International Single, Best Dance Record and Most Played
Record of the Year!
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June 2002
3rd June -
Love At First Sight is released in Australia. Featuring remixes
by Scumfrog and Ruff & Jam, the single also includes
Can't Get Blue Monday Out
Of My Head (the
Blue Monday remix of
Can't Get You Out Of My Head). The video,
directed by Johan Renck features Kylie's trademark futuristic dancers, and is shot to look
like one continuous take. The single enters the charts at No.3.
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10th June - Love At First Sight
is released in the UK, entering the charts at No.2.
18th June - the Fever
Tour winds up in
Europe with a party thrown by Kylie's tour costume designers Dolce &
Gabbana. Kylie
arrives at the party dressed in a golden Roman gladiator's outfit to perform
Can't Get You Out Of My Head, whilst guests have been given their own Kylie t-shirts to
customise for the lavish event.
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July
2002
Kylie travels to the USA for promotion of
Love At First Sight,
including performances on MTV
Total Request
Live,
Regis &
Kelly, and a live
performance of the US remix on
The Tonight Show With Jay
Leno. The 12" promo of the
song reaches No.1 on the Billboard Dance Charts.
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In the UK, a brand new waxwork of Kylie is
unveiled at Madame Tussaud's, their THIRD Kylie incarnation! The new model, posed on all
fours, whilst wearing a very short dress, attracts some criticism from the lady herself,
not merely for the fact that visitors are invited to walk around it and view her from all
angles...
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August 2002
2nd August - after a short break, the Australian leg of the
Fever Tour begins. An
emotional Kylie wraps herself in the Aussie flag at the end of the opening show in Sydney
after her gruelling world schedule "There's a lot that I can say in words, it's just
easier that I didn't... I'm one very happy girl to be home."
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After the tour finishes, Kylie returns to
the recording studios to re-record the vocals for her next single
Come Into My
World, whilst rumours abound that she has also recorded a Madonna-penned track
called
Alone Again as the double A-side. Kylie herself has been busy
song-writing, this time for UK girl group Atomic Kitten and the title track of their new
album
Feels So Good.
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29th August - Kylie attends the MTV Video
Music Awards in the USA where she picks up the award for 'Best Choreography' for the
Can't Get You Out Of My Head video. With Enrique Inglesias she also
co-presents an award to Mary J Blige.
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September 2002
Kylie films the video for
Come Into
My World in Paris. Directed by Michael Gondry (who has directed videos for the likes
of Bjork, Daft Punk and The White Stripes), the video features multiple Kylies wandering
the Paris streets as weird and wonderful events take place in the background.
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Love At First Sight is released in France featuring brand new remixes
by French DJs David Guetta and Joachim Garraud.
At the Elle Style Awards, Kylie wins 'Woman
Of The Year', and the magazine feature her on the cover of their November issue.
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October 2002
Kylie appears on the cover of GQ magazine in South Africa wearing nothing but a pair
of striped knickers and cowboy boots (the shot was previously featured on the cover of The
Face in January 2002). The cover sparks controversy after being banned by a top
supermarket chain for being 'pornographic'!
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15th October - Kylie's night at the ARIA
Awards where she wins an unprecedented FIVE awards: 'Best Single' for
Can't Get You Out Of My Head, 'Highest Selling Single'
for
Can't Get You Out Of My Head, 'Best Pop Release'
for
Fever, 'Highest Selling Album'
for
Fever and the 'Outstanding Achievement Award' for the 'Most Successful
Australian Artist Ever'!!!
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27th October - Channel 4 in the UK screen a
documentary about the
Fever Tour and Kylie's resurgent popularity called
Feel The
Fever. The documentary is followed by edited highlights of the Manchester show
filmed earlier in the year.
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November 2002
1st November - promotion for new single
Come Into My World begins in
the UK with a live performance on
Friday Night With Jonathan
Ross.
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4th November - the re-recorded
Come
Into My World is released in Australia, featuring remixes by Robbie Rivera and
Ashtrax, together with live versions of
Fever and
Love At First
Sight. The single debuts at No.4 on the charts, making
Fever Kylie's
most successful album in Australia, with all its singles reaching the Top Four.
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7th November - the long-awaited follow-up
to 1999's coffee-table book,
Kylie La La La is released. The book features
over 300 photos from Kylie's personal archive, most of which have never been seen before,
documenting her 15 year pop career. The text is mainly written by Kylie's creative
director William Baker, with notes by Kylie as well, covering
Neighbours, her singing
career, tours, relationships and life in general. In London, a very limited run of
autographed copies sells out within the first 24 hours.
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In the BBC's survey to find the 100
Greatest Singles of All Time, Kylie comes an impressive 35th with Can't Get You Out Of My Head.
11th November - Come Into My
World is released in the UK, entering the charts at No.8, meaning all the
Fever singles in the UK reached the Top Ten.
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14th November - at the MTV Europe Awards,
Kylie scoops two awards, for 'Best Pop Act' and 'Best Dance Act'.
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18th November -
Release of
KylieFever2002
on video and DVD, the full
Manchester show recorded earlier in the year. The package also includes the
Feel The
Fever documentary, and a special limited edition DVD includes a bonus audio CD of a
selection of the live tracks. The DVD enters the chart at No.1.
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On the same day, a special edition of
Fever is released with new artwork and a bonus disc of rare remixes, including
the Fischerspooner Mix of
Come Into My World which was previously only
available on a promo-only 7". Also included is a track called
Whenever You Feel
Like It, which was originally intended for inclusion on
Fever but was
dropped in favour of
Come Into My World - although it later surfaced on the
soundtrack to the movie
Scooby-Doo!
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Also
released is a revamped Greatest Hits on PWL (through Jive Records), featuring all of
Kylie's PWL hits, a selection of B-sides and a bonus disc of remixes. Kylie is
disapproving of the whole project, in particular the cover which depicts a supposed
look-alike dressed in her underwear. An 'official' cover, designed by Kylie and her team is
made available to download from her website and is also given away free inside copies of
Heat magazine. Despite the teething problems, the compilation is a hit, reaching the Top
25. A video and DVD is also released, to fans' excitement, featuring all Kylie's PWL-era
videos, as well as alternative versions and behind the scenes footage. The DVD enters the
chart at No.10.
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21st November - Kylie appears in the
presence of Prince Charles as the special guest in the hit West End show 'The Play
What I
Wrote'. The Morecambe & Wise spoof features Kylie dressed as a portly monk, performing
a song and dance routine in the costume! "I haven't acted for such a long time, it's
good to be doing something different. It's the first time I've trodden the boards in the
West End and I'm a bit lost for words. It worked and it was just wonderful. If they asked
me to do it again I'd do it at the drop of a hat."
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22nd November - special appearance on
Top Of The
Pops
with Casey from electro group Fischerspooner, performing their breathtaking remix of
Come Into My World.
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29th November - performance at the second
annual Top Of The Pops Awards where Kylie wows the audience with a stunning live rendition of the
Fischerspooner version of
Come Into My World. She scoops the award for 'Best
Tour' for the second year running.
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December 2002
2nd December - Kylie headlines the Royal Variety Performance where she performs a
special medley of tracks from
Fever, once again in the presence of Prince
Charles who proclaims backstage "we must stop meeting like this!"
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11th December - Kylie travels to the USA to
appear in a series of roadshow dates with several other top artists. The Kiss-108
Jingle
Ball kicks off in Boston where Kylie performs
Come Into My World,
Love
At First Sight,
The Loco-motion, the Latin version of
In Your
Eyes from the
Fever Tour, and
Can't Get You Out Of My Head. The tour
continues to New York (Madison Square Garden), Miami and California.
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21st - appearance on The Tonight Show With
Jay Leno where Kylie performs a live rendition of
Santa Baby.
27th - Kylie is named 25th Most Popular
Star of All Time in a list compiled by the writers of the Guinness Book Of Hit Singles. She
is one of only 4 female artists in the list of most weeks on the British single charts,
the others being Madonna, Diana Ross and Shirley Bassey.
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Love At First Sight is named as
the most played radio song of 2002.
Kylie is the cover star for the winter
issue of Hong Kong fashion magazine West East. In a series of exclusive shots for the
magazine's first anniversary 'Sex' edition, Kylie is dressed in tight corsets and lingerie
from her own range, resulting in striking images inspired by Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn
Monroe.
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January 2003
Kylie is nominated for 'Best Dance Recording' for
Love At First Sight
at the 2003 Grammy Awards.
9th January - Fever
is awarded
Platinum in the USA with sales of over a million copies.
12th January - the Phonographic Performance
Company of Australia name Kylie as the 'Most Broadcast Artist on Australian TV and Radio
in 2002'.
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February 2003
4th February - UK launch of the LoveKylie lingerie range, in Selfridges, London.
KylieFever2002 wins Best Music
DVD at both the UK and Australian DVD Awards.
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20th February - Kylie performs with Justin
Timberlake at the Brit Awards, duetting on a cover of Blondie's
Rapture.
Although neither nominated for or presenting any awards, the performance commands the
front page of all the newspapers the following day, whilst the press interest in the
couple off stage continues for some weeks after!
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25th February - Kylie travels to New York
where she presents an award with Justin Timberlake at the Grammys.
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March 2003
Kylie visits Paris, where she is the special guest at the 50th Anniversary
Party
for the Chloe fashion label. At an exclusive party at the Cafe De Flores, she performs a
jazz set, including covers of
Big Spender,
Peel Me A Grape, Peggy
Lee's
Fever and Nena Simone's
My Baby Just Cares For Me.
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Kylie ventures back into Biffco's Dublin
studios to begin recording her ninth album.
17th March - in Australia, the new season
of the LoveKylie range is launched by Kylie herself during Melbourne Fashion Week.
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Details are announced of Kylie's involvement
in a ballet production called
21 for the Rambert Dance Company. In a specially
commissioned short film, to be projected onto the stage during the production, her
performance is choreographed by Rafael Bonachela, who created the dance routines for the
Fever2002 Tour. The score also includes a vocal performance by Kylie, electronically
altered for the production.
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Kylie is awarded a Centenary Medal by the
Governor General of Australia for Outstanding Contribution to the Music Industry.
Kylie wins Australian Performer of the Year
(for the THIRD year in a row) and Showbusiness Ambassador of the Year at the Mo Awards in
Australia.
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April 2003
Kylie appears in an exclusive spread in Australian Vogue magazine,
whose cover carries a special sparkly 'Vogue' logo.
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May 2003
6th May - Kylie attends the launch of a new body art exhibition called Body Craze
at Selfridges in London, arriving in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce phantom, and flanked
by 10 models in Burberry macs, showing glimpses of their LoveKylie lingerie... saucy!
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26th May - reissue of Kylie's two
deConstruction albums
Kylie Minogue and
Impossible Princess. Both
albums feature bonus discs of rare tracks and previously unreleased remixes.
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August 2003
Kylie travels to the French Riviera where she shoots a set of photos that reveals
a very sexy image evocative of Brigitte Bardot.
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September 2003
Kylie is nominated for 2 Aria Awards -
'Best Female Artist' and 'Best Pop Release' for Come Into My World.
Kylie is featured in an exclusive portrait
in Pop magazine entitled 'You Were Never Lovelier'. Photographed in Coco Chanel's very own
Paris apartment, Kylie appears with no hair styling or make-up, simply dressed in Chanel
couture.
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An updated softback edition of
Kylie
La La La is released, featuring many more previously unseen photos and updated
commentary from Kylie and William Baker.
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Kylie travels to Barcelona, where she films
the video for her new single Slow by a poolside surrounded by numerous hunks
in trunks!
29th September - Slow
debuts on British and Australian radio. A minimal electronic track with a
hypnotic bass
and beat, the song is a radical departure for Kylie, causing
much discussion and debate amongst her fanbase.
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October 2003
Release details are confirmed for Kylie's new album. An exclusive feature in
Music Week proclaims: "Fans
expecting
Fever mark II are in for a surprise when they get to hear
Body
Language on November 17th. Immersed in cutting edge production, the album's touches
of electro and hip-hop give it a truly minimal feel, as highlighted on lead single
Slow. However, the cool production is not at the expense of melody. Highlights
such as
Still Standing are perhaps Minogue's most adventurous tracks to date,
but at the same time some of her most pop-friendly...Not only is
Body Language
Kylie's strongest album to date, it looks set to strike the rarely achieved balance
between cutting edge cool and retaining huge commercial appeal..."
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In Europe and the USA, an updated
Greatest Hits compilation is released, featuring the same tracks as the UK
2002 edition, together with the singles from the deConstruction era. The packaging is
updated to include a Kylie picture sleeve, replacing the 'controversial' UK cover which
featured an anonymous Kylie 'look-alike'...
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17th October - debut performance of
Slow on
Top Of The
Pops, revealing Kylie's striking Bardot-inspired image with
long blonde hair and fire-engine red lipstick, her dancers carrying neon red poles for the
sultry routine.
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18th October - details are announced on
Kylie.com of a one-off exclusive Kylie show on November 15th in London. Entitled
Money
Can't Buy, the performance is to be filmed for a TV special
showcasing tracks from the
new album, and the 4000 available tickets are to be given away through various TV, radio
and internet competitions.
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28th October - Kylie is appointed
ambassador for the NSPCC (the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children),
lending her support to campaigns led by the charity. Kylie commented of her new position:
"Cruelty to children is an everyday occurrence, which must be stopped. The work
undertaken by the NSPCC is essential and I fully support its mission to end child cruelty.
I support its vision of a society in which all children are loved and valued. The levels
of abuse in this country are shocking. Without charities like the NSPCC, they would be
worse. Together, we may be able to improve the lives of children within the UK". For
more information on the NSPCC, visit their official site at www.nspcc.org.uk.
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November 2003
3rd November - release of
Slow in the UK and Australia. The single enters
the charts of both countries at No.1, giving Kylie her seventh UK No.1 single (her first
ever self-penned No.1) and her NINTH Australian No.1!
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6th November - Kylie
performs
Slow at the MTV Europe Awards in Edinburgh.
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Kylie graces the cover of the
December
edition of UK Vogue magazine, her second appearance on the magazine's cover.
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15th November - Kylie
showcases tracks from her new
Body Language album, as well as some
of her more recent hits at a special one-off concert at London's Hammersmith
Apollo. With a distinctive French flavour running through the show, from the
sets to Kylie's costumes, to a special version of
Breathe combined
with Serge Gainsbourg's
Je T'aime, the show reportedly cost £1M to
stage.
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17th November - Kylie's
ninth studio album
Body Language is released. Combining a mixture of
laid back beats, funky grooves, a hint of R 'n' B and several 80s references
throughout, the album enters the UK chart at No.6.
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28th
November - Kylie's hectic European promotion continues with an exclusive
performance of
After Dark, the closing track
from the album written by Cathy Dennis, on
Top Of The Pops (28th), and
performances of
Slow on the
Swiss National Lottery show
(29th) and Italy's
Quelli Che il
Calcio.
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December 2003
2nd December - Slow is released in France as a limited
edition DVD single featuring the beautiful video. 6th
December - Kylie performs Slow on
Germany's hit TV show Wetten
Dass. Kylie receives her second Grammy nomination, when
Come Into My
World is nominated for Best Dance Recording.
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January
2004
Slow is released to U.S. radio, becoming the most-added
track to U.S. radio in its first week. 24th
January - Kylie performs at the NRJ Awards in Cannes.
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25th
January - Kylie performs
Red Blooded Woman at the NRJ Awards in
Sweden, where she also collected the award for 'Best Dance Act'.
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Kylie
announces a performance at G-A-Y to take place on 28th February. She says of the
show "I am so excited to be performing once again at G-A-Y. There’s an
atmosphere there that is unlike anywhere else. Last time I performed there they
had a huge clock counting down the minutes until the show and by the time I came
on the crowd was at fever pitch. It's a special venue for me and I have some
amazing memories of gigs gone by. So many of the audience go to great lengths to
make special outfits and they know the lyrics to the songs better than I
do!"
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Kylie releases
her first ever doll! The Barbie-esque fully poseable figure comes in two
different outfits - the Silvanemesis bra-top, skirt and boots from the
Fever Tour, and the short red D&G dress from the 2002 World Music Awards. An
excited Kylie comments on her official website: "For years I have been
asked about a Kylie doll, well she has finally arrived and I am delighted! I
hope fans will agree it was worth the wait as we worked very hard to get every
detail right. Now that she is here I am looking forward to making more dress up
outfits and accessories for you and dolly in the future." The dolls prove
hugely popular with fans and inspire a competition on Kylie.com to photograph
KylieDoll on her travels around the world...
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February
2004
Kylie travels to the U.S. for a short promotional tour for the
Body Language album. 6th February - at the Musicares Person of the Year Award dinner in Los
Angeles, Kylie pays a tribute to Sting by performing
Every Breath You
Take.
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8th February -
Kylie wins her first ever Grammy award for 'Best Dance Recording' for Come
Into My World. 10th
February - Body Language is released in the U.S. 11th
February -
Red Blooded Woman (Narcotic Thrust Mix) debuts at No.1 on
the UK Upfront Club Chart
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14th February
- in New York's Avenue Club, Kylie appears at the launch party for the
soundtrack CD of the hit make-over show
Queer Eye For The Straight
Guy, in which she has a cameo appearance. Kylie's set takes in
Come
Into My World,
Red Blooded Woman,
The Loco-motion,
Can't Get You Out Of My Head,
Slow and
Love At
First Sight. As an impromptu encore at the end of her set, Kylie leads the
audience in a quick blast of
Your Disco Needs You. Her U.S.
success continues as
Slow promo remixes hit No.1 on the Billboard
Dance Chart.
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28th
February - Kylie performs a spectacular show at G-A-Y, with a set-list that
spans her entire career. Her set includes
Made In Heaven,
Red
Blooded Woman,
What Do I Have To Do/Confide In Me/Too Far,
Locomotion,
Chocolate,
Can't Get You Out Of My Head,
Slow,
On A Night Like This,
Love At
First Sight and an acapella rendition of
Better The Devil You
Know. Photos of her
Cabaret-style image and routines make
several of the national newspapers the following day.
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March
2004
1st March -
Red Blooded Woman is released and enters the UK
chart at No.5. The single is backed with the much sought-after Chemical Brothers
Remix of
Slow, previously only available on a promo yellow vinyl
12". The video for
Red Blooded Woman was filmed at the end of
2003 in LA and was directed by Jake Nova, who was responsible for the hugely
successful clip for Beyonce's
Crazy In Love. In the promo, Kylie is
featured wandering through a traffic jam, swinging on the back of a petrol
tanker and climbing into a tight red dress in the back of a car.
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Slow
is nominated for two prestigious Ivor Novello Awards for 'Best Contemporary Song'
and 'International Hit of the Year'. 13th
March - Kylie is awarded 'Outstanding Contribution to Pop' at the Bravo Supershow
Awards in Hanover, Germany, where she performs Red Blooded Woman
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April
2004
28th April - the UK's Phonographic Performance Ltd confirm Kylie to be the
most played female artist on British radio, and the fourth most played artist
overall.
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May
2004
5th & 6th May - the video for Kylie's next single
Chocolate
is filmed in London, directed by Dawn Shadforth
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Kylie
contributes to a multimedia project called 'Lyric' whereby various
artists were given a Motorola video call handset and asked to make a short film
to illustrate a song of their choice. Kylie, together with photographer Nick
Knight and Liz Neal choose Barry Manilow's
Copacabana. Her name was
Kylie, she was a showgirl...
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June
2004
9th June - Slow wins
'Best Pop Video' at the Music Week Creative
and Design Awards Kylie performs a special half hour set as part of the lavish
wedding celebrations of Amit Bhatia and Vanisha Mittal, daughter of Indian
billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, just outside Paris. The Indian Telegraph report that
she was paid $520,000 for the private show.
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28th
June - release of
Chocolate, a lavish, Eastern-influenced production
with breathy, dreamy vocals and the third single to be taken from
Body
Language. For the single release, Kylie completely re-records the vocals,
after admitting that the original recording of the song for the album was one of
the hardest she had to do. An extremely stylish video inspired by MGM musicals
of the 30s accompanies the song, which reaches No.6 on the UK chart.
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July
2004
Kylie travels to Melbourne for the launch of the latest LoveKylie
lingerie collection. She also films a cameo appearance for an episode of hit
Aussie sit-com
Kath and Kim.
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12th
July - Release
of
Body Language Live, the DVD of Kylie's
Money Can't
Buy show recorded the previous November. The DVD also includes the video
clips to the
Body Language singles, as well as a behind the scenes
documentary, including footage of Kylie rehearsing, on location at photo
sessions in the South of France, and shooting of the stunning stage backdrop
films. It debuts at No.4 in the UK, No.9 in Spain and an impressive No.2 in the
German charts.
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August 2004
Kylie spends some time in the studio recording a selection of electro-pop
tracks with the Xenomania production team for a forthcoming greatest hits
compilation. She also teams up with Jake Shears and Babydaddy of the Scissor
Sisters to write and record tracks for the project.
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September
2004
Whilst speculation and rumours of forthcoming single and album projects
run rife with her fans, two unreleased Kylie tracks from the
Body
Language sessions are leaked onto the internet,
I'm Just Here For
The Music and the very
American Life-esque
My Image
Unlimited.
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13th
September - release of a budget compilation CD and DVD as part of BMG's
Artist Collection series. The CD compiles various deConstruction
tracks and features a modern art cartoon collage of Kylie on its cover, by
artist Hanoch Piven.
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Plans
are revealed for the release of
Ultimate Kylie, a greatest hits
compilation bringing together singles from the whole of Kylie's career, together
with two brand new tracks. Of the retrospective collection, to be released in
November, Kylie comments: "Since my first hit, I can’t believe how quickly
time has passed. This collection is very dear to me and holds a lifetime of
memories. There is nothing like time to give you a sense of perspective and I
hope the listener gets as much enjoyment out of these tracks as I do. I feel
lucky to have had the opportunity to experiment throughout the years and that my
fans have embraced the need in me to try new approaches. I am just as excited
about the new tracks featured here as I am about all the others on the record.
At this point in my career, I am happy to celebrate the past and look forward to
the future!".
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October 2004
13th October - Kylie announces plans for a 2005 tour.
Showgirl - The
Greatest Hits Tour is set to kick off in Glasgow in March 2005, before
taking in England, Ireland, parts of mainland Europe and eventually Australia.
Initial dates sell out immediately, bringing web servers to a virtual standstill
and causing a major UK telephone exchange to overload!
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Promotion
for Kylie's brand new single,
I Believe In You begins with a
performance at the Nordic Music Awards in Oslo. The track, a driving electro
tune with almost spoken-word verse and a soaring chorus, in the same vein as
Light Years was co-written and produced by Jake Shears and Babydaddy
of the Scissor Sisters. The track soon becomes A-listed on many radio stations,
becoming a sizeable airplay hit weeks before its commercial release.
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November
2004
6th November - TV promo for Ultimate Kylie kicks off with a
special performance of Spinning Around on
Ant & Dec's Saturday
Night Takeaway in the UK
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19th
November - Kylie performs
Spinning Around and
Step Back In
Time on the BBC's annual
Children In Need night.
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20th
November - performance of
Better The Devil You Know on
Top Of The
Pops Saturday
show
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21st November -
Kylie attends the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. She performs
Can't Get You Out Of My Head and
I Believe In You at the bash where, as
one of the most established artists to attend she receives a 'Smash Hits Lifetime
Achievement' award.
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22nd
November - "The Ultimate Pop Collection From The Ultimate Pop Artist"
- release of
Ultimate Kylie, a two-disc set including practically
all Kylie's singles from her entire career, plus
I Believe In You
and the storming Xenomania-produced
Giving You Up. The compilation
sells an astounding 83,000 copies in the UK in the first week of release,
entering the charts at No.4. Similar success is repeated in Australia where the
album debuts at No.5.
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23rd
November - Kylie is honoured at the Onda Awards Ceremony in Spain where she is
presented with the 'Special Jury Award' in recognition of her incredible career
and contribution to popular music.
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European
promotion forges ahead with performances on France's
Hit Machine (24th),
Germany's
TV Total (25th, where she gives an impromptu burst of
Dilemma with fellow guest star, rapper Nelly), and back to Paris for
Star Academy (26th)!
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25th
November - Kylie's much-anticipated appearance on comedy show
Kath & Kim
airs in Australia. Kylie appears as Kim's daughter Epponnee in a 'flash-forward'
dream sequence with a tongue-in-cheek nod to Charlene's wedding in
Neighbours.
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December
2004
6th December - release of
I Believe In You in the UK. With
remixes from Mylo and Skylark the single storms into the UK charts at No.2,
climbing to the No.1 position in the UK Airplay Charts where it remains for
several weeks. Meanwhile,
Ultimate Kylie is certified platinum, with
sales approaching 300,000.
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Kylie
web forum SayHey goes into meltdown with another unreleased track surfacing. The
tune,
(Everything) I Know, was one written and recorded with the
Scissor Sisters and is still mostly in its demo form, much to the annoyance of
the Scissor's frontman Jake Shears... "Pretty depressing to see your hard
work displayed before it's ready. I think it's a really special song, and is
something wintery and melancholy. I don't know if anyone's got it up on their
sites or anything, but I would really appreciate it if anyone's got it up to
take it down. and if you've already got an mp3, please don't share it. It's just
not meant to be heard yet..."
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Kylie
is once again nominated for the Grammy awards, again in the Best Dance Recording
category, this time for Slow. 12th
December - Kylie performs three tracks at the Top Of The Pops Christmas Party in
London's Shepherd's Bush -
Step Back In Time,
Spinning
Around and
I Believe In You.
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Kylie's
official 2005 calendar becomes the
best-selling calendar of the year. 25th
December - Kylie performs a special medley of
Step Back In Time,
Shocked,
Better The Devil You Know and
What Do I
Have To Do on the Top Of The Pops Christmas
Special.
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January
2005
Japanese producer and DJ extraordinaire Towa Tei confirms that Kylie he
and Kylie have worked on a track called
Sometime Samurai for his
forthcoming album. The track was originally a demo they made together in 1996
when they recorded the kooky
GBI.
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14th
January - Kylie unveils a special exhibition at the Melbourne Arts Centre Simply
entitled 'Kylie', the collection includes outfits from tours, videos
and photoshoots, as well as various awards and memorabilia spanning her entire
career, from Charlene's overalls, to costumes from the
Fever Tour, even the hat
from the
It's No Secret video gets a look in! Says Kylie: "I'm
so happy that my costumes have found a home here in Melbourne, my home town,
where I know they will be cared for and preserved. Its just such an honour that
the Performing Arts Collection wanted it all! What I imagine people will want to
see is the wear and tear, the ingrained make-up after fifty shows, where the
audio-pack rubs... these are things that for me, bring costumes to life."
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February
2004
11th February - release of the animated film
The Magic
Roundabout, which features Kylie providing the voice for Florence,
together with other stars such as Joanna Lumley, Sir Ian McKellan and Robbie
Williams.
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