STACK #162 April 2018

MUSIC

FEATURE

the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.

after more than 30 European shows) she’s diagnosed with breast cancer, and cancels the remaining dates.

Minogue collabs with Australian musician Nick Cave on single Where The Wild Roses Grow . Cave tells writer William Baker that he’s wanted to work with Minogue since Better The Devil You Know (from album Rhythm Of Love ). The track breaks the top 10 in several European countries, reaches #2 in Australia, and wins two ARIA awards (including Song Of The Year). Oct 1997 Sixth album Impossible Princess is released, but renamed Kylie Minogue in the U.K. following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales two months prior. The video for Did It Again features several Kylies dressed in the styles of her previous career periods.

Jan 2011 Kylie receives a Guinness World Record for most consecutive decades with top 5 albums; according to the Guinness site, she still holds this citation.

Jul 2005 Minogue makes her first public appearance after surgery and chemotherapy in Melbourne, visiting the cancer ward at the Royal Children’s Hospital. Nov 2006 After the success of her medical treatment, Kylie resumes the Australasian leg of the tour – her ninth concert tour – under the title Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour. She receives rave reviews from critics for her performances.

Nov 2011 Minogue is inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame, on the 25 th anniversary of the ARIA Awards. As of April 2018, she is the recipient of 16 ARIA Awards. She also has

Jan 2007 Kylie’s fourth waxwork at London’s Madame Tussauds is unveiled, which makes her the most modelled celebrity after only the Queen. The likeness is scented with Minogue’s perfume, Darling.

three BRIT Awards, four MTV Awards, three NME awards, a Grammy, and plenty of other individual accolades.

2012 Kylie celebrates 25 years in the music industry with a year-long spree of B-side releases and appearances, including at the BBC Proms, the Sydney Mardi Gras, Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Concert, and the Cannes Film Festival. Jan 2013 Kylie begins her stint as a coach on The Voice UK , in its third season. She’s so popular that Australia’s version of the show snaps her up in November of the same year. Aug 2014 Minogue performs a set of seven songs at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

May 2008 Kylie is appointed a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the junior grade of France’s highest cultural honour. Two months later she’s appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Prince of Wales, at a Buckingham Palace ceremony. May 2010 Minogue participates in the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign; the project joins her numerous other charitable efforts including supporting Band Aid II, Helping Haiti, the (British) National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, ChildLine, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research. July 2010 Minogue releases her 11 th album Aphrodite , which includes co-writes with Calvin Harris, Jake Shears, Pascal Gabriel and more. It does well critically, spawning popular single All The Lovers .

Sep 2000 Having signed on with Parlophone Records (who want to re-establish Kylie as a pop artist), Minogue releases seventh album Light Years . It includes massive singles Spinning Around (featuring the golden hotpants), On A Night Like This , and Robbie Williams duet Kids . The resulting tour sells out around Australia and the U.K. Oct 2001 Eighth album Fever – with a more electronic and Europop-influenced sound than previous records – is released. Its lead single Can’t Get You Out Of My Head becomes the biggest track of Kylie’s career, reaching #1 in 40 countries and selling five million copies. Following singles In Your Eyes , Love At First Sight and Come Into My World are also enormous hits. The album debuts at #1 in Australia and stays there for five weeks. Mar 2005 Kylie begins her massive Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour to promote compilation album Ultimate Kylie . Two months in (and

Nov 2015 Minogue releases the

massively successful Kylie Christmas , of both covers ( Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas , Winter Wonderland ) and originals.

April 6, 2018 Kylie’s 14 th studio album Golden is released.

Nov 2010 Kylie performs Let It Snow and Santa Baby at

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