Kylie Queen of the World by Julie Aspinall

Author:Julie Aspinall [Aspinall, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843586937
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2011-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

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The Divine Miss M

Back in Britain, the first real sign of a reawakening of interest in Kylie was a coffee-table book, packed choc-full of pictures of the petite diva herself. Kylie had been considering doing a book from as early as 1992, but when it finally appeared, it was different both from Madonna’s Sex, a volume of extreme exhibitionism, and Kylie’s own initial idea. There are a couple of nude photographs to delight Kylie-watchers, but on the whole, the book is really a scrapbook of Kylie’s career to date.

These are pictures of Kylie stemming right back to the earliest days, tracking her career from TV tomboy to sex kitten, with the pages devoted to Kylie lookalikes, paintings of Kylie, Kylie’s face drawn on a man’s leg, Kylie and Michael, photographs by Stephane, an abstract painting by Jason Donovan, magazine covers, record covers and so on. Kylie was at last coming to terms with her sugar sweet past. She was also, not a moment too soon, growing out of her IndieKylie phase. ComebackKylie was on her way.

‘It was born out of a moment of boredom,’ says the woman herself. ‘I was sat in my kitchen with a friend, having just finished the best tour I’ve ever done and I was in need of a project to get me through the lull.’ The lull, of course, was Kylie’s period between record labels, a period that was clearly being put to extremely creative use.

The book, called Kylie, is a collaboration between Kylie and her long-term stylist Will Baker in which she adopts all sorts of different persona – as indeed she has done throughout her career – and it is finished off with comments on Kylie by people ranging from Nick Cave to Julie Burchill. Nick Cave, incidentally, spends most of his entry ruminating on the words to ‘Better The Devil You Know’. The first picture in the book is a little bit startling: Kylie having not so much a bad hair day as a bad all over day, right down to a smudge of lipstick on her lips. Her complexion is waxen, her eyes rigid and she just doesn’t come across as bouncy little Kylie we all know and love. It is only when you look again that you realise this is actually a photograph of a waxwork of Kylie, rather than the woman herself.

‘I made a bit of a blunder there,’ admits Kylie chirpily. ‘I just assumed people would go, “Oh, the waxwork”, but they don’t … It’s funny when I’m with them because they just don’t know what to say. I have to pounce on them and go, “Er … that’s wax, darling!”’

There are a couple of pictures of a completely naked Kylie, one rather enchanting one taken in her dressing room after a concert. ‘The reason I included that shot was because I remember the moment it was taken and I was so happy,’ she says. ‘But it’s not there to shock, it’s tasteful. Sure, nobody’s ever seen my nipple before, but it means nothing to me.

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