Kylie

Jason Donovan sued a newspaper for saying he was gay.

Love at first sight is my fave. Brings back such lovely memories Rolf being young and free!

I’ve not watched it yet as I’ve been away all week. I’m REALLY looking forward to it though - I’ve been a massive Kylie fan since I was around 8 years old and watched her as Charlene punch Scott as she climbed through the window!

I used to have a massive collection - all the videos etc, and I remember in one of the videos she was saying about some of the things in the press was quite upsetting but luckily she had really thick skin. So clearly she learnt very early on to put her guard up. I remember so many interviews where she was talking about one day being a mother if she met the right man etc - I really felt for her that she achieved so much professionally, but never managed the one thing she seemed to want more than anything. I’ve been fortunate enough to see her live in concert 8 times. She is a brilliant performer live - she really knows how to put on a show. My dad took me to the Let’s Get To It tour for my birthday present around 1994. He was NOT a fan in the slightest of her music, but even he came away saying how much he enjoyed the show!

I’ve really enjoyed the evolution of her music, and how she reinvented herself to stay current. A very shrewd businesswoman in my mind. On her album “Golden” there’s a song called Dancing. In it she sings “when I go out, I want to go out dancing”. To me it was very obvious she was saying this is what she wants to do until she dies. Forever the showgirl.

PP who mentioned Love at First Sight - which one did you mean as she’s had 2 songs with the same name. I think one was an album track quite early on (either on Kylie or Enjoy Yourself because I remember I had it on vinyl) and the other was a Parlephone release.

Oh and the pink spacesuit - that was Put Yourself In My Place. Loved that song. We had a video jukebox in my parents pub and I remember that video getting played a LOT!

My favourite version of Confide In Me from a tour that was nearly 20 years ago! I absolutely love that dress. It's still the first thing I think of when somebody says the song name.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=vqHv8UYNti4&ra=m

Really surprised about Jason Donovan. I thought everyone thought he was gay?

Spinning Around was my favourite

I find it strange that they hid their relationship and pretended they weren’t dating. Really odd.

I loved Danni on the X Factor, I always thought she came across well. Dannii had the better career in Australia before Kylie went on Neghbours, so it must have been tough to have spent decades labeled as the lesser successful sisyer, but she has always been dignified despite the tabloid headlines. Dannii went into dance music and was very popular within the club scene in the 90s.

Manic Street Preachers wrote & produced her Indie material. They wanted her to sing on one of their earlier singles, but she wasn’t allowed.

I read Jason Donovan’s autobiography years ago. If I remember correctly, Kylie and Jason’s relationship started off on an equal footing with Neighbours, but as Kylie’s singing career took off, the hours she spent travelling, promoting and performing took their toll and Jason became resentful and jealous. Jason also had quite a drug habit before, during and after Neighbours. This escalated after the split and he embarked on some serious binges, but only Jason is responsible for his behaviour. He probably looks back at that time of his life as quite a dark period.

@Batteriesoptional your comment has literally explained why she wouldn't want to say more about herself though.

LOL at showing some respect for the hot pants song. I agree! Sentimentally my favourite one is "love at first sight" which came out when I was having a really tough time and cheered me up.

if you go back to Kylie and the Princess tour, for some reason her sitting in the moon and singing "somewhere over the rainbow" is very important to me. Then got played at my friend's funeral and became even more important

The funny thing is, if you're in the audience, you can see her fastening her seatbelt in the moon! 🥰

I really enjoyed the documentary but agree with OP, I don’t feel that I have an insight into who Kylie really is. The look back at how vile the press and some of the commentators of the day were was shocking. I saw it all in real time but never questioned it as a young person. I was never into her music but I’ve enjoyed delving into the back catalogue - the video of her stripping off in space while flying in what looks like sex toy is hilarious.

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@ExOptimist you say there was no point to the documentary

That's your view

She must've felt there was a point to the documentary. And yes, I will watch it if my flats ever cools down enough for me to sit there and watch some television.

I admit, I am particularly likely to comment because I think it's a great shame when it's assumed that somebody has nothing more to say, but particularly when it's a high achieving attractive woman. It's as if some people set them up that they are not good enough if they don't announce their political views or their charity endeavours - or in the other way, if they don't announce that they don't have any.

One reason why I think it's a shame, if someone like Kylie Minogue can be considered to be absolutely pointless, what on earth does that say about me or the millions of other ordinary people just quietly going about our lives? There's a massive amount of creative work that goes into what she does.

but some people really enjoy criticising and complaining so 🤷🏽‍♀️

That’s apparently not exactly quite true - he was supposedly seeing both of them and Paula wanted him to drop Helena. He wouldn’t do it so she made sure the press took photos of her with Michael. When Helena saw these pictures she ended it herself.

I'm a very private person too and would keep as much to myself as possible if I was famous.

However, the absolute last thing I'd do would be to have a documentary made about me in which I fully participate.

Because she's done this she really can't be as private as you say. There's no purpose to the documentary, she doesn't need the money or to get more fans.

I simply don't believe, having seen it, that there are hidden depths to her, I think she's bland and lightweight. I'm not a fan nor do I dislike her, I was completely neutral but watched to see if there was more to her than appears. But there wasn't.

You should watch it.

He was with supermodel Helena Christensen after Kylie and left her for Paula.

I enjoyed it and thought she did give new detail:
Postponing treatment for IVF, how she feels Michael is still with her somehow, her second diagnosis…
They didn’t mention that Jason Donovan had an overdose in Johnny Depp’s nightclub, in the US. Michael Hutchence was present and apparently was instrumental in getting him help.
Edit for spelling!

Yes, for Paula Yates!

Pretty sure MH dumped her for Helena Christensen back in the day… tbh I think she has blown up the fling with him to something a lot bigger than it was. He was several years older than her, way hotter, way more experienced and already an established rock star. I think you’d be very naive to think she was anything other than one of many women at the time…I have no doubt she was in love with him but don’t think it was returned (there’s a clip even in the doc where a journalist asks MH if he’s in love with Kylie and he doesn’t say yes - he dodges the question completely. A person in love would happily say ‘yes I am’!) I think she look backs on it as the love struck 21 yr old she was as to her it was a massive deal, but to him it probably wasn’t. Also if he’d lived she’d prob have seen him all craggy and old now and changed her mind about him anyway.

I was also shocked at how truly bad her voice is still. Sorry kylie, but all those years of singing and singing lessons and she just shouts and always sounds screechy and off-key. Horrible. I know she never claimed to be a great singer, but I thought by now she would be better 😳

She did an indie album at one stage because she wanted out of the pop biz, but no one really took it seriously. She ended up back doing the pop songs. I've a feeling there's more to her than meets the eye, but she wasn't able to get off the big money treadmill. Michael Hutchence though...what a consolation prize!