STACK #162 April 2018

MUSIC FEATURE Kylie OUR GOLDEN GIRL This month, national treasure Kylie Minogue releases her lucky- lucky-lucky 14th studio album Golden (via Mushroom). Here's how the pop princess made her way. Words ZKR

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May 28, 1968 Kylie Ann Minogue is born in Melbourne, Victoria.

– depicting the wedding of Kylie’s character Charlene and Jason Donovan’s character Scott Robinson – attracts two million Aussie viewers and a whopping 20 million U.K. viewers. The same month she releases Locomotion as her first single with Mushroom Records. It spends seven weeks at #1 and receives an ARIA award for Highest Selling Single. Dec 1987 Mushroom release I Should Be So Lucky and the song motors to #1 in Australia and around the world. Kylie receives her second consecutive Highest Selling Single ARIA. Mar 1988 Kylie becomes the first person to win four Logie Awards in one year, and the youngest ever recipient of the Gold Logie, for ‘Most Popular Television Performer.’

and the U.K. but doesn’t break her into North America. She starts dating INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.

1979 At age 11, Kylie

Nov 1990 Kylie’s third album Rhythm Of Love is released, and is hailed as leagues more mature than her previous work; many point to her relationship with Hutchence as evidence of her transformation from “the singing budgie” (as many of her detractors had dubbed her) to a grown, confident woman. Mar 1994 Kylie makes her first appearance at the Sydney Mardi Gras parade, alongside John Paul Young.

begins appearing in small Australian soap opera roles, and in 1985 is cast in a lead role in The

Henderson Kids ; her character is written out after one season. The same year she appears in popular television series Young Talent Time , on which her younger sister Dannii is a regular performer, but Kylie isn’t invited to join the recurring cast. 1986 Kylie is cast as Charlene Mitchell in Aussie soap Neighbours , in the second year of its airing.

Sep 1994 Fifth album Kylie Minogue is released,

Jul 1988 Kylie’s debut album Kylie is released. It goes gold in the States and gets her her third #1 Aussie hit in a row: Got To Be Certain .

spawning mega-popular singles Confide In Me, Put Yourself In My Place and Where Is The Feeling?. Three months later she appears in action film Street Fighter opposite martial artist and actor Jean-Claude Van Damme. It’s a commercial success but is scorned by critics.

Jul 1987 Episode 523 of Neighbours

Oct 1995

Nov 1988 Kylie and Jason Donovan release their duet single Especially For You , which is critically acclaimed and reaches #1 in several countries. Soon after, Kylie leaves Neighbours to focus on her music career. Oct 1989 Minogue’s second album Enjoy Yourself is released; it does well in Australasia, Europe

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