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Kylie Naked is the bestselling biography of Kylie Minogue. First published in 2002 to coincide with her massive Fever arena tour of the UK and Europe, the book was the first to tell the story of her well publicised relationships with Michael Hutchence, Jason Donovan and James Gooding. From Neighbours to Stock Aitken and Waterman to her disco revival at the top of the charts, this intimate biography, applauded by Kylie's manager for its accuracy, explores the real woman behind the public image. Drawn from interviews with key players in the industry, Kylie, friends and colleagues, Kylie Naked was the first book to delve into the real Kylie, from her success as a soap star to her assault on the UK charts, and to this day is still regarded as the most authorative and in-depth portait of one of pop music's most private stars.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	30 août 2012
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781849892988
Langue	English

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KYLIE NAKED

A Biography

by
Nigel Goodall
&
Jenny Stanley-Clarke

Publisher Information

First published in Great Britain in 2002 by Ebury Press

Digital Edition converted and distributed by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com

Copyright © Nigel Goodall & Jenny Stanley Clarke 2002

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Quote

‘I don’t have to be a sex bomb. I am one!’

- Kylie Minogue

Dedication

For our respective offsprings,
Adam and Kim, Daniel and Ben.

About The Authors

Nigel Goodall is a British-born author with more than 20 books on the movie and pop worlds to his credit. He has written about some of the biggest names in showbusiness including Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Cliff Richard, the Rolling Stones, Cher and George Michael.
Since the original print publication of this book, he has written liner notes for the 2002 upgraded reissue of Kylie’s original 1992 Greatest Hits album, Ultimate Kylie, and the programme notes for Kylie Showgirl.

Jenny Stanley-Clarke has worked as a public relations consultant for over 30 years with clients as varied as Elton John, Bob Marley and Motorhead. She has ghost written and edited over a dozen music books, including the hugely influential tribute to Freddie Mercury, A Kind of Magic .

Both authors bring to this biography much exclusive material including interviews with Kylie, friends and colleagues.

Acknowledgements

One of the most enjoyable things about writing this book was getting the chance to educate, experience and reap new appreciation of our subject. It’s the joy of writing biography.
Many people have helped us with Kylie’s story. We have respected the wishes of those who did not want to be named and we hope they enjoy the book. Our sincere thanks go to Andrew Cowan-Martin, former head of artist management at PWL, who co-ordinated Kylie’s activities in the Stock, Aitken and Waterman years; and to Neil Rees, who in helping us on all matters Kylie, constantly proved himself an expert of true brilliance, and whom without, we could have not gone the distance of completing the manuscript.
At Ebury Press, our thanks to Jake Lingwood, Hannah MacDonald, our editor Tom Wilson, and Stina Smemo for publicity. We would also like to thank Neil for the striking cover for this digital edition, and at our digital publisher Andrews UK Limited, we are indebted to Paul Andrews and Joe Larkins for doing such a splendid job with the digital conversion process.
We would also like to thank Kylie herself, whose career and public profile for more than half her life inspired us to write this book in the first place. We hope she and her manager Terry Blamey discover that her inspiration has been rewarded with a book that accurately and fairly sums up her life so far.

Introduction

By Nigel Goodall

When people found out, in early 2002, that I had become attached to this book as the second author, at the eleventh hour, I was bombarded with questions. “What is Kylie like, how was it to meet her, is she really that tiny, when did you last interview her, and if you interview her again, can they come along?” But sadly, there was no time to ask her if she would be interested in co-operating with an unauthorised biography to be published to coincide with her massive arena tour of the UK and Europe in April 2002. Even though that would have been my preferred course of action.
All the same, my intent, as was Jenny’s, was to present a sensitive and truthful account of Kylie Minogue as a tribute to her and her legion of fans. And although, strangely, I would never have called myself a fan before, I do now. As I mention in our acknowledegments, it’s the joy of writing biography, and certainly that has been true for me when I first started my research. When I watched her on An Audience With and Live in Sydney , especially, I was simply captivated.
Before I had a chance to meet Kylie, after the original publication of this book, I was told that barefoot, she stood only a little over five feet. Certainly that was true, but equally true was the fact that by the time Kylie was 33, she had enjoyed a career of truly phenomenal proportions.
When I penned this introduction in 2002, she then held a position in the music world rarely seen. Then, with almost fifteen years behind her as a significant recording artist and more than twenty as an accomplished actress, she was, and still is, in the enviable position to compete both commercially and critically with every one of her musical peers, both male and female.
She is the comeback queen who never went anywhere, through her own desire to progress, improve and reinvent, she has made herself irreplaceable. But at the same time, she remains untainted and as fresh as the day she first stepped into the spotlight, but now with more drive and ambition than ever before.
By the time this book came out, she had released eight studio albums, six long-play videos, greatest hits and live packages, a multitude of other hits and remix compilations, and thirty-eight hit singles throughout the world, many of which are today correctly regarded as pop classics. Her most recent then, Cant Get You Out Of My Head ended up as the number one record in almost every territory in which it was released. Not only that but it has sold literally in its millions, and repeated much the same success across America in 2002. And least we forget the album, Fever , from which the single was taken. Like the single, it too, has enjoyed the same success, both here in Britain and throughout the world.
Add to this, the successful roles on both television and movie screen, and you have a rollercoaster ride of a career. Today, Kylie could not be more successful if she tried. At long last, talent has won through, and almost miraculously she has gained the credit and critical acclaim that has for so long evaded her.
Looking back to June 1991, following the release of her thirteenth single, Shocked , the British music industry bible, Music Week , declared what a musical force Kylie had become. The only act in the history of British popular music to have had her first thirteen releases all go top ten. She has now had thirty-one consecutive hits in Britain, and thirty-eight worldwide, twenty-one of which have reached the top ten, and six of those reaching number one.
Even now, she remains one of the world’s most successful female musical artists, probably more than she has ever known before. Not that it was quite as simple as that in the beginning. She had more or less grown up in front of the camera since aged eleven. And probably pleased to have maintained the integrity with which she entered show business in the first place. The first of her acting roles was in the Australian television drama series Skyways , and was followed by more in other popular dramas such as The Sullivans, Zoo Family and The Henderson Kids .
Soon after her seventeenth birthday, when Kylie left school to pursue a career in acting, she landed the role of Charlene Mitchell in Neighbours . Still to this day she is arguably one of the most popular characters to come out of that Australian television series.
She never needed to scrape herself up the fabled rocky road to fame, neither has she known the troubled years of so many other young hopefuls, auditioning by day and waiting tables by night, and going wild with excitement every time some half interested person recognises them from a commercial. By her own reckoning, she never had an inspiration as a child to be famous, and if anything, it happened purely by accident. If her fame wasn’t exactly handed to her on a plate, it was at least delivered to her door.
By the time she was out of her teens, she had, after all, won five Logie awards (the Australian equivalent of an Emmy), and at that time was the youngest actress ever to achieve such an honor. And then again in 1987, she won the Silver Logie for ‘Most Popular Actress’ and again in 1988 she was the first artist ever to win four Logies on one night, including the Gold for ‘Most Popular Personality on Australian Television’ and another Silver.
Within two years, Kylie was performing as adeptly on the big screen as she had in any television drama, when her first feature film, The Delinquents was released around the world to rave reviews, and by December of that year had become the Christmas blockbuster, hurtling Kylie into the limelight even more.
By that time, as she is now, Kylie was literally a household name throughout the world, with a whole generation of children being named after her. When Kylie’s Greatest Hits was released in 1992 debuting at number one on the album chart, going gold on release and accompanied by an equally successful number one video, she had also been the guest of royalty, both in Britain and Europe and a favourite of several invitations for Royal Command Performances. Perhaps it’s why her fans, not content with merely labelling her as their own version of royalty, have crowned her th