Y'all know Kylie was in the Aussie soap Neighbours, right? That's how this all started.
One night, at a charity event/party for an Australian Football team, Kylie (and fellow castmates) got up and did some karaoke. She did The Locomotion. A record executive - I want to say Michael Grubinski of Mushroom Records?- liked what he heard, and the rest is history. Released in her home country, Sweden and Italy, "Locomotion" went to number one on the Australian singles charts and stayed there for seven weeks. This led to her contract with PWL, and with her re-recording the song and releasing it internationally. It became one of her biggest British hits, and, sadly, her biggest American hit.
You don't know how close I was to not accepting Dream and DW's ballots. Really infuriating, to be honest.
I gave Never Too Late, the third single lifted from Kylie's sophomore release Enjoy Yourself a ten, but it's not perfect. In a way, it doesn't fit her, and really should have been given to some of the older women SAW was working with at the time - namely Sonia or Donna Summer. (Conversely, I Don't Wanna Get Hurt would have fit Kylie like a glove.) In a way, Kylie know this - as she fought to have Enjoy Yourself released. Label head Pete (The Devil) Waterman overruled her, however. It did turn out to be Kylie's first single to not go top two in the UK, peaking at number four.
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