Kylie

Oh, but I'll get all embarrassed.

- Will you? Bullshit. - I doubt that.

They're convincing me to let you in.

- Oh, go on, let him in. -Oh…

Right.

Come into my room. Come.

- -Oh! Oh!

-He's wrecking things already. - Sorry.

Where to begin?

There's certainly no end.

"I'm not a hoarder," she says, surrounded by…

Oh, okay.

But I found these, and I don't really know what's in them.

Oh, there's the-- Oh, gosh, that's a bit much.

The first time the hot pants went out. Sorry about that.

My final guest is a megastar of pop.

More hits than the Mafia.

Welcome Grammy Award winner…

Kylie!

I need to do some editing here.

I really do need to do some editing. Ah-ha, we're back in safe territory.

- Thanks for joining. - Good evening.

Good morning.

Rustling papers is one of the most irritating noises.

It will send me wild.

Anyone agree? No, just me.

Okay.

In this business, they come and go.

But you have an amazing way of reinventing yourself.

I've never done anything like this.

I don't know where we're going.

But you're gonna reveal a lot of things.

You just can't wait, can you?

You're like, "The worse, the better. Give it to me."

But I'm tentative to see the things that I'm hiding.

But I'm not hiding it from you.

It's from myself.

It's been good, great, terrible.

But I just keep trying to get back on stage.

Life makes sense to me on stage.

And people don't know why.

Yeah?

-You wanna talk about that now? -Not now.

A hundred percent not now.

The new viral hit has introduced a new audience to Kylie.

Her songs have been streamed over five billion times.

There's 35 years of stuff.

More.

How are we going to do this? When I say "we," I mean you.

- Thank you very much. -Thank you.

Satisfying, that, isn't it?

What's your version of the start?

Ooh.

Ah, the '80s.

Seems like another lifetime.

But I'll tell it to you as if it's box fresh.

Um…

So…

I came to London when I was 19.

Trafalgar Square.

From the other end of the Earth.

To go and make a record.

It was wildly exciting.

I remember going down a laneway into a humble entrance.

And then the first room, there's just gold records everywhere.

- -Here we go.

Dead or Alive " You Spin Me Round,"

Bananarama,

Donna Summer.

So, I was riddled with self-doubt and anxiety

and all those other wonderful things that we love.

- Ready? -Yeah, I'm ready when you are.

Quick! Because I've got to be out of here by 3:00.

I got a call telling me there was a small Antipodean in the reception,

expecting to make a record.

Didn't even know what an Antipodean was.

You got to understand, I had no idea who this girl was, right?

I mean, we've got Rick Astley, the world's biggest artist.

It was, "Another artist? Please!"

So, I was waiting around for ages.

And they'd forgotten I was there.

But she had to catch a flight,

two and a half hours later, back to Sydney.

I'm asking, "What are we doing?"

So, I just thought…

…"Let's do it."

They had to write a song really quickly for me.

ln allegedly 40 minutes. Who knows?

Everyone's story's slightly different.

Oh, two hours. It took two hours.

And that is a very true story.

But we didn't have the title of the song.

And she only had 30 minutes to get to the airport.

So, somebody said, "You should be so lucky."

I said, "That's it."

And that was it. No conversation, that was it. She'd gone.

Just gone.

I didn't know if the song was any good or what it meant

or would it even make it?

Who are these guys? What just happened?

I had no idea that I was about to go over the precipice

into a different world.

Good morning, gang, this is the Hitman

with the latest hits before they're hits.

I was on the radio at 9:00 in the morning.

Come on, gang, keep your feet dancing.

And my producer walked in and saw on the label "Kylie Minogue."

He said, "It's Kylie Minogue."

Yeah. "No, Pete, it's Kylie Minogue!"

I went, "Sorry?"

He said, "Open the mic,

tell them they're gonna hear the first Kylie Minogue single."

He said, "But only till you hear the first vocal and then stop it."

I said, "What?" He said, "Do as you're told."

Stay tuned, 'cause you may just miss that hit!

And this could be it.

["I Should Be So Lucky" playing over headphones]

Kylie Minogue's doing it.

Close mic.

The phones went nuts.

All 30 lines lit up instantly.

When you have a switch, you can knock all them off.

So, I'm knocking the 30 lines out fast and furious and couldn't stop them.

Now that's unheard of. That doesn't happen.

And then I get a call from the BBC.

"You've done a single with Kylie Minogue?"

Sorry?

Next thing, "You're doing Top of the Pops."

"I'm what?"

I didn't even know what Top of the Pops was. Like…

Good evening, welcome to Top of the Pops .

We have Bros in the studio tonight, Elton John is with us.

Let's go over here now, Kylie Minogue's "I Should Be So Lucky."

Well, this was the biggest television show in Britain.

And I don't know what the crowds are gonna be like outside.

Kylie! Kylie! Kylie!

It was like, "What the hell's going on here?"

"What's-- What is this?"

Now, you've got to understand, I had no idea what Neighbours was.

All right.

There's not a day, really, goes by in my life

where at some point I don't refer back…

to those years.

The amount of times I get into a cab and someone will go, "How's Kylie?"

And it's like, "Oh, fuck. I don't fucking know."

"You go and ask fucking her."

And that, you know, it's not a disrespect to her.

It's just, come on, man. You know, that's a long time ago.

What I can remember was sitting in the wardrobe van

on the set of Neighbours,

this little Aussie soap opera.

And this new actor had arrived, and she turned around to me.

It was her first day, and said, "Do you remember me?"

Small world. My first day ever on a set.

We played brother and sister.

It was just crazy.

"Wow! God, that's right."

But I couldn't remember her, no.

He's got a pet spider.

-Do you want to see it? -Well, does he bite?