Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
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Kylie named music Idol - Oct 8 2007
Kylie Minogue has been honoured as a music idol at the Q Awards.
The star showed off a new Marilyn Monroe-esque hair do and a figure-hugging black frock at the ceremony.
Her win was greeted with a standing ovation from the crowd of celebrities at London’s Grosvenor House hotel.
And she joked: "I would like to thank those of you who continue to support me - including my dress."
The 39-year-old singer is working on a new album after winning her battle with breast cancer.
This was her first appearance at an awards ceremony since returning to the limelight.
"It’s my first day back at work like this so it’s very exciting and slightly nerve-wracking," she admitted as she arrived.
Of her Q Idol award, she told the audience: "Just don’t ask me what it means, but I’m very grateful and honoured to be receiving this."
The annual awards are handed out by Q Magazine.
The other big winner was Sir Paul McCartney, who was honoured with a Q Icon award.
The former Beatle received a huge cheer from the audience as he paid tribute to late wife Linda.
"I thank Linda for seeing me through some real tough periods," he said.
He also thanked his former Beatle band-mates and his "fantastic, beautiful" children. There was no mention of his estranged wife Heather Mills.
Jonathan Ross hosted the awards and threw in some typically risque jokes.
"The Spice Girls are reforming - in the same way they reform meat into nuggets," he said.
Kylie: I dream of having children - Oct 8 2007
Pop star Kylie Minogue still dreams of having children, but does not know if she will ever get married, she has revealed.
The 39-year-old singer said she imagined preparing for a wedding and would "love" to be a mother.
In a magazine interview she also described how her battle with cancer changed her body.
"I want to keep working on finding perfect harmony within my life and my work," she told Glamour magazine.
"And a family, yeah, that’s still something I would love to happen.
"There have been times when we were getting ready for a big event, like the opening of my exhibition at the V&A, and there’s a last minute hoo-has and we’re all running around like headless chickens and I’ve said, ’Imagine if we were getting ready for my wedding’.
"We’ll see. I honestly don’t have a feeling one way or the other if I will walk down the aisle."
Kylie, who was in the middle of a world tour when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, returned triumphantly to the stage in November last year after chemotherapy.
She said her body was "not what it used to be" but is pictured beaming in a flamboyant pink dress.
She told the magazine: "As far as body image goes, I’ve shrunk to nothing, I’ve ballooned...my body is not what it used to be but it’s the body I’m in."
Kylie to unveil raunchy new vid? - Oct 4 2007
Kylie’s new video is apparently set to be her most provocative ever, as the pop princess writhes around in a black latex catsuit.
The 39-year-old has been shooting the video for her new single Two Hearts, which is due out next month, at London’s Shepperton Studios, reports the Daily Mirror.
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In 1986 Kylie was offered the role of Charlene Mitchell in upcoming soap Neighbours. Her storylines made her a household name in both Australia and the UK and the on screen wedding between Charlene and Scott Robinson (played by Jason Donovan) attracted record numbers of viewers.
Whilst performing The Locomotion on stage at a benefit in 1987 Kylie was spotted by representatives of Mushroom Records who signed her up and released the track. The success of her first release saw Kylie travel to London to meet with pop moguls Stock Aitken and Waterman who penned I Should Be So Lucky for her on the spot. The single was a smash and launched Kylie as one to watch and indeed her debut album became the biggest seller of the year here in the UK.
Panned by critics, Especially For You, a duet recorded with Jason Donovan (by this time a pop star in his own right) was a huge hit in 1989 but Kylie’s follow up album, Enjoy Yourself, whilst successful in Europe and Australia flopped in the US, resulting in the singer being dropped by her American label.
1990 saw Kylie make the first radical adjustment to her image. Gone was the cutesy girl next door in favour of a more sexy look for Better The Devil You Know, while a relationship with bad boy rocker Michael Hutchence cemented Kylie’s new ’cool’ status. Rhythm of Love produced several well received dance-orientated singles and was enough of a success to persuade Kylie to produce a further album despite her contract with PWA being up. Let’s Get To It was a critical success but was her first release to miss the top ten. Realising that she was stifled by the Stock Aitken and Waterman formula she recorded three new tracks for a Greatest Hits album and made a break for it.
So it was time for another change in direction. Kylie went indie following her signing to Deconstruction Records and Confide in Me spent several weeks at the Aussie top spot. The self titled album released alongside sold reasonably well although it received mixed reviews from the press while follow up singles eached top twenty. Elsewhere Kylie went extra dark, appearing on Nick Cave’s Where The Wild Roses Grow, a move which promised a more credible pop star in the future.
By 1997 Kylie had overhauled her image again, and the release of Impossible Princess the following year reflected that. A collaboration with the Manic Street Preachers wasn’t enough to stop the album from becoming the least successful of her releases and the end of Kylie’s pop career looked near.
However a split with Deconstruction resulted in Kylie hooking up with Parlophone and in an explosion of gold glitter and disco the pop starlet burst back on to the scene in an unfeasibly small pair of gold hotpants to promote Spinning Around and accompanying album Light Years. The single was Kylie’s first UK number one in ten years and resulted in a duet with Robbie Williams and a sell out tour. However, it was 2001’s Fever which cemented Kylie’s future. The unforgettable video for impossibly catchy single Can’t Get You Out Of My Head ensured that the track reached number one in over 40 countries. Follow up singles were almost equally successful and the awards flooded in while next album, Body Language, was another hit while Ultimate Kylie, a greatest hits release was accompanied by a lavish tour.
It was during this time that Kylie was diagnosed with breast cancer, much to the shock of her fans. Her headline slot at Glastonbury was cancelled and the rest of the Showgirl tour was postponed but after treatment from Australia and France’s best doctors Kylie was back on the scene looking better than ever. She began work on a new album and released a children’s book The Showgirl Princess closely followed by a perfume, Darling. She resumed her Showgirl tour and split with French boyfriend Olivier Martinez.
Elsewhere Kylie’s film career has been slightly less successful than her musical one. From The Deliquents to Street Fighter she has been panned for her on screen work her only success coming in the form of the green absinthe fairy in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!
updated March 2007
November 2007