Kylie Minogue – X (2007)

X by Kylie Minogue

Career Overview
Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue started out as an actress, working on the TV show NEIGHBOURS, whose UK popularity eventuated the young singer taking up with megapop production team Stock, Aitken & Waterman (who also made Rick Astley a success). With that titanic trio behind her, Kylie became the queen of the British pop charts, scoring hit after hit. Like Sheena Easton, she eventually changed her image from girl-next-door to sex-kitten and shortly thereafter became the paramour of INXS vocalist Michael Hutchence. Though Kylie resigned supreme in the UK, establishing a Madonna-like presence on records and in films, she never took off in America until her 2002 album FEVER finally made her a US dance-pop diva.

Biography
b. 28 May 1968, Melbourne, Australia. Coming from a stage family, Minogue passed an audition for the Australian soap opera, Neighbours, which eventually led to her recording debut with Little Eva’s hit, “The Loco-Motion“. When the television series was successfully screened in Britain, prolific hit producers Stock, Aitken And Waterman intervened to mould Minogue’s attractive, wholesome, anodyne image to their distinctive brand of radio-centred pop.

The first UK single, “I Should Be So Lucky“, reached number 1 in early 1988, presaging an impressive chart run of instantly hummable UK hits, including “Got To Be Certain” (number 2), “Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi” (number 2), “Hand On Your Heart” (number 1), “Wouldn’t Change A Thing” (number 2), “Never Too Late” (number 4), “Tears On My Pillow” (number 1), “Better The Devil You Know” (number 2), “Step Back In Time‘ (number 4), “What Do I Have To Do” (number 6) and “Shocked” (number 6). With solo success enhanced by duets with co-star Jason Donovan, including the UK number 1 “Especially For You“, Minogue emerged as one of the most successfully marketed acts of the late 80s and early 90s, with books and movies, including The Delinquents.

In 1991, the former soap star drastically changed her girl-next door image and adopted a sexier persona, which won her even more media coverage – particularly when she became romantically involved with INXS lead singer, Michael Hutchence. Further hit singles included a duet with Keith Washington on “If You Were With Me Now“, and “Give Me Just A Little More Time” (number 2). Surprisingly, she even won some acclaim in the music press and found herself championed as an unlikely “pop goddess”, signing to dance music label Deconstruction Records in 1994. She enjoyed another UK hit single the same year with the mature “Confide In Me“.

In 1996 she recorded a single, “Where The Wild Roses Grow“, with Nick Cave and the following year was working in the recording studio with the Manic Street Preachers. The original title for Impossible Princess had to be changed, as it was felt that it clashed with the death of Princess Diana. Not to be confused with her 1994 self-titled release, Kylie Minogue was a much grungier album than expected, but marked a downturn in the singer’s commercial fortunes that resulted in her being dropped by Deconstruction.

Minogue signed a new deal with Parlophone Records in 1999, and returned to the top of the UK charts the following July with the infectious dance single, “Spinning Around“. Light Years saw Minogue firmly back in the disco pop bracket, an area to which she is clearly best suited. She returned to the top of the UK singles chart in September 2001 with the catchy “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” (written by former Mud guitarist Rob Davis and Cathy Dennis). A sparkling new album followed to delight her fans.

Minogue’s renaissance continued in America, with “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” breaking into the Top 10 and Fever rapidly scaling the charts. She maintained her commercial ascendancy in 2003 with the hypnotic “Slow” reaching the top of the UK charts in November, although the attendant Body Language was less successful. In May 2005, the singer was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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2 Hearts

X album tracklists are:

01
2 Hearts
02
Like A Drug
03
In My Arms
04
Speakerphone
05
Sensitized
06
Heart Beat Rock
07
One
08
No More Rain
09
All I See
10
Stars
11
Wow
12
Nu Di Ty
13
Cosmic
14
Rippin’ Up The Disco
15
Magnetic Electric
16
White Diamond

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