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Kylie reunites with 80s hit-makers
Last updated at 13:37pm on 19.10.06
Kylie Minogue is recording a new album with the help of Pete Waterman
Kylie Minogue has returned to her old song-writing team to ensure her much-anticipated pop comeback is a sure-fire hit. The diminutive Aussie beauty is currently working on her first album since she was diagnosed with breast cancer 18 months ago.
While many in the music industry believe Kylie's comeback will be a success, the singer is making sure her new album flies off the shelves by returning to the Stock, Aitken and Waterman team who are aiding her with her new tunes.
She is having tracks thrown at her left, right and centre by numerous record companies, and while she is accepting them and giving them consideration, she feels it is her old team who can provide her with the best music she has ever had.
A source close to Kylie, 38, said: "Those guys made her a hit 20 years ago so she has decided to return there because she knows they are good. The songwriting team behind the trio made her pop career when she was a teenager so she reckons they are just right for her comeback.
Indeed, I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie's debut single - is still an anthem now, along with Especially For You, the duet she performed with Jason Donovan.
Our source continued: "They have great form, the amount of number ones that specific song-writing team has churned out is amazing and Kylie wants to be part if that again.
However, music has thankfully moved on a little bit from the Eighties, so her sound is going to be slightly different.
Edgy
According to Eye's source, Kylie is going for a pop sound but with a bit more of an edge to it.
The source added: "Kylie will never move away from her pop roots but her new tunes will be edgy and a bit dirtier, she is kind of updating pop so that her songs are catchy but not cheesy.
The Melbourne-born singer, who now resides almost full-time in London, shot to fame in 1986 on BBC1 soap opera Neighbours. After leaving she won chart success with I Should Be So Lucky, which was quickly followed by cover The Locomotion.
However, her popularity began to wain in the early Nineties and she didn't return to the pop scene until 2000 with her anthem, Can't Get You Out Of My Head - which went straight to number one.
More hits followed, including a duet with Robbie Williams, but she was struck down with breast cancer in May 2005 and endured a year-long stint of chemotherapy.
Reader views (5)
I'd be very surprised if Kylie used more than 3 or 4 tracks from one particular writer, her recent format has been to mix up 5 or 6 different writers on an album.
- Matt, Manchester, UK
PWL & the SAW team are the best by far and they are my inspiration when it comes to making music. I feel that PWL and Kylie will turn out another HIT! GO FOR IT!
- John Savino, Brooklyn, NY USA
I agree with Dale. A couple of SAW tracks with Kylie would be magical. But not a whole album: Kylie (and music) has moved on since the late '80s. Anyhow, I hope this is true and that we see a couple of new Kylie/SAW tracks.
- Peter, Sydney, Australia
I would love to see Kylie have a major comeback as it would be a triumph for her after such an ordeal.
- Darrell Russ, Frederick
It would certainly help them get restarted and help them preview their "new" sound. I don't know that I would like a whole album with the old PWL crew, but a couple tracks would be amazing. By the by... didn't she record some new tunes with Scissor Sisters?
- Dale, Lakewood, Ohio USA
