Kylie Naked
"Kylie is the comeback queen who never went away. Through her own desire to progress, improve and reinvent, she has made herself irreplaceable. She remains untainted and as fresh as the day she first stepped into the spotlight, but now with more drive and ambition than ever before..."
- From the Introduction
It's hard to believe now that the stylish star had her first real fame as an innocent female mechanic in an Australian soap. Yet she she constantly reinvented herself over the years, morphing from bubblegum Pop Queen to steamy Sex Vixen and now sophisticated Disco Seductress.
Applauded by Kylie's manager for it's accuracy, Kylie Naked, an intimate biography of the antipodean pop princess, explores the real girl behind the many guises. It reveals the gutsy determination that saw Kylie leave her home and a successful soap career at the tender age of nineteen. It uncovers Kylie's struggle to take control of her image in the notoriously fickle music industry.
Kylie's personal life, shrouded in secrecy, is examined closely, from her key relationships with Michael Hutchence and Jason Donovan to the influence of men such as Prince and Nick Cave and the competitive career of her younger sister, Dannii.
Exposing the personal and professional highs and lows that have created a star who has had chart-topping hits spanning three decades, Kylie Naked is a biography as glittering as Kylie herself.
She's the girl we just can't get out of our heads - a permanent fixture in our consciousness for over fourteen years. And she's come some a long way - her current role as a stylish disco diva is a far cry from her first real fame as a naive teenage soap star.
With an exclusive chronology of all Kylie's film and television appearances, a specially compiled discography by Neil Rees, and 16 pages of stunning photographs, Kylie Naked reveals Kylie in all her glory: her childhood in Australia, her fledgling pop career, and her later adult education by Michael Hutchence. It tells how she made it, her passions and her heartaches and her struggle to remain at the top in a savagely competitive industry. And it gives us her own thoughts about life from acting and fashion to music and men.
Reviews
"Nigel and Jenny have produced a book that will have fans turning the pages in anticipation of finding that one more piece of information about a woman who has been a familiar name and sight to millions of people across the globe, for half of her life span. So familiar is she that reading Kylie Naked is like revisiting a fairy tale that you know well and yet never tire of."
- Michelle Hespe, Sydney Xpress
"To their credit, the authors don't try and shatter her girl-next-door image and her career is covered in almost bang up-to-date detail, including an extra chapter to take account of her recent success with 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' and her fantastic performance at the 2002 Brits Awards. Hopefully the Princess of Pop will find time one day to pen her autobiography, but until then Kylie Naked is as thorough and an enjoyable account of her life as you could possibly want."
- Jonathan Weir, Amazon.co.uk
"Kylie Naked stands out against the more trashy exposes which chose to focus more on tabloid gossip and rumour. This biography promises at the start to be a truthful and sensitive account. It contains exclusive interview material with Kylie and those close to her charting the up and downs of her long career."
- Matt Emms, Celebcity