Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess

January 1994
Kylie starts the year at a family affair, the wedding of her sister Dannii and actor Julian McMahon. She sings three songs at the reception, Celebration, Fly Me To The Moon and We Are Family.

February 1994
In front of over 19,000 hysterical fans, Kylie performs What Do I Have To Do at the Lesbian And Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, onstage with 30 dancers.

April 1994
Kylie appears on cover of Australian "Elle" Magazine, and "Australian Style". May 1994 For the fourth consecutive year His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco invites Kylie to the World Music Awards. This year the awards were attended by Prince, Whitney Houston and Ray Charles amongst others.

June 1994
Kylie is interviewed for "The Face", where she talks about the recording of her first deConstruction album confirming collaborations with Brothers In Rhythm, Jimmy Harry, M People and the Pet Shop Boys, who write a song especially for her called Falling.

Although she is gearing up for the release of the album, Kylie is contacted by director Steven De Souza who has spotted her on the cover of Who Magazine in Australia and asks her to star in his new feature film, Streetfighter. Based on the computer game of the same name, Streetfighter is a $40M movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Kylie accepts the role and filming commences in Thailand and Australia’s Gold Coast. For her role as British intelligence officer Cammie, Kylie has to learn kickboxing and how to shoot a bazooka gun! "They bring in the guns and I'm like Bam! Bam! Bam! The film crew are like 'she didn't even blink. Even Mel Gibson blinks when he fires his gun'..."

July 1994
Kylie appears on the cover of "ID" Magazine, also her second ID cover.

August 1994
Release of the first single from the new album, Confide In Me. A lush production with exotic sounding strings backed by a full orchestra, the single is written and produced by Brothers In Rhythm. It debuts at No.2 on the UK charts and in Australia goes to No.1 where it stays for 5 weeks. The B-side tracks are the Saint Etienne cover Nothing Can Stop Us and a recording of the Prefab Sprout song If You Don’t Love Me, which Kylie sings simply accompanied by Steve Anderson playing the piano.

Kylie performs an exclusive live show at G-A-Y (formerly Bang!) at the Astoria club in London. She showcases tracks from her new album, including Confide In Me, Falling and Time Will Pass You By, as well as Shocked, What Do I Have To Do, Step Back In Time and Better The Devil You Know. She is awarded ‘Best P.A. Of The Year’ at the club.

A portfolio of new photos by Ellen Von Unwerth and Katerina Jebb, entitled Kylie Minogue 1994 is released to the press in the format of a large, ‘coffee table’ style book bound with black ribbon. A glossy magazine supplement of new shots by Rankin, called The Kylie Bible is given away free with Dazed & Confused magazine. Both books become much sought after by Kylie’s fans in the years to come.

September 1994
The album Kylie Minogue is released, entering the charts at No.4 and No.3 in the UK and Australia respectively and immediately turning gold. Total sales go on to exceed 500,000.

Kylie appears on the cover of "Sky" magazine completely naked.

November 1994
A new single, Put Yourself In My Place is released, with a video where Kylie floats in a spaceship, wearing a hot pink spacesuit that she gradually strips off. This is Kylie’s take on the opening scene of Barbarella. The single charts at No.11 in Australia and the UK.

Kylie makes an unexpected guest appearance in BBC sitcom The Vicar Of Dibley, starring Dawn French.

December 1994
Streetfighter is released in the US grossing over US$100,000 in the first month making it the most successful movie ever based on a game. At the Smash Hits Awards Kylie is voted amongst the top 10 best albums, best single, and best female solo singer. Kylie invited to perform for the Prince's Trust concert, simulcast nationally in the U.K.

Kylie performs at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party (4th Dec) and the Prince's trust Gala Concert (6th Dec), singing Put Yourself In My Place atop a grand piano.

10th December - Kylie meets her ‘superfan’ on UK TV show Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, where she performs her intended next single Where Is The Feeling? and Rescue Me (A Motown track originally by Martha and the Vandellas).

31st December - Kylie sees in the New Year at the Venus Dance Party at a Sydney night-club. Wearing a white vest top spelling out ‘1995’ in sequins, she performs Confide In Me, Better The Devil You Know, Step Back In Time, Shocked, What Do I Have To Do and Where Is The Feeling? accompanied onstage by a posse of drag queens.

January 1995
U.K. prestigious music magazine Select votes Kylie no.1 amongst "50 Most Shaggable People".
Kylie records Where The Wild Roses Grow with Nick Cave in Melbourne. The duet was written by Nick with Kylie in mind and tells the story of Kylie’s character Eliza Day who is murdered by her lover. Nick has actually been a long-time admirer of Kylie and had wanted to work with her for quite some time. The song is recorded for his Murder Ballads album to be released later in the year.

February 1995
Kylie stars in a short film called Hayride To Hell which is filmed in Sydney. The film tells the story of a man who encounters a strange girl on his way home one night who gets into his car, asks him to take her to a certain address very quickly and promptly falls unconscious. Once they arrive at the address the girl wakes and runs inside, leaving her bag behind. The man decides to follow her with strange consequences…

April - June 1995
Kylie spends time in LA filming a movie called Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin. The film is a comedy about two guys who become trapped inside a controlled ecosystem inside a giant dome. Kylie plays Petra Von Kant, an oceanographer. In order to stand out, she decides to dye her hair a striking red colour, a look she favours for some months.

'Saint Marie MacKillop' by Pierre et Gilles

May 1995
Jean-Paul Gaultier interviews Kylie on UK TV’s Eurotrash. The programme films her buying underwear in Paris and being photographed by French artists Pierre Et Gilles. For the portrait, entitled 'Saint Mary MacKillop', Kylie is dressed as a nun wearing suspenders and seated on a rocking horse.

June 1995
Kylie appears on the front cover of "Loaded" magazine in the UK. It became their biggest selling issue ever, selling over 150,000 copies, an average 40,000 more than its usual figures.

25th June - Kylie performs at G-A-Y at the Astoria in London as part of the Gay Pride celebrations and is introduced onstage by her sister Dannii. Kylie descends from the ceiling on a trapeze, surrounded by balloons to sing Step Back In Time, Where Is The Feeling?, What Do I Have To Do, Celebration, Confide In Me and Better The Devil You Know. She is also awarded ‘Best P.A. Of The Year’ at the club for the second year running.

July 1995
A brand new re-working of Where Is The Feeling? is released. The song has been completely re-recorded into almost spoken word and turned into a dance epic by Brothers In Rhythm. Additional remixes by David Morales and Felix Da Housecat are included on the single and it debuts in the UK at No.16.

Kylie performs acoustic versions of Put Yourself In My Place and If You Don’t Love Me live on Radio One. She follows this up by performing the tracks again on MTV’s Most Wanted.

21st July - Kylie re-records Time Will Pass You By with producer Paul ‘Wand’ Masterson, who is to remix the song for Kylie’s intended next single.

27th July - appearance at Cream’s night at Club Ku in Ibiza, Kylie performs dance versions of Confide In Me, Where Is The Feeling? and Better The Devil You Know for the clubbing crowd.

August 1995
4th August - Kylie’s first ever open-air festival performance as she performs live at the Feile ’95 Festival in Cork, Ireland. Nick Cave joins her for the first public performance of Where The Wild Roses Grow.

6th August - Kylie performs at the T In The Park Festival in Scotland, accompanied by a nine-piece band. With a capacity of 30,000 people it was the first time the festival was sold out. During the hour-long set, Kylie performs Confide In Me, Where Is The Feeling?, Surrender, Automatic Love, Where The Wild Roses Grow, Put Yourself In My Place, Shocked, Time Will Pass You By and Better The Devil You Know. Prior to the performance, Kylie takes time out for an autograph session for her fans.

September 1995
Europe's "FHM" magazine ranks Kylie 14th among the World's "100 Sexiest Females Ever" ahead of the likes of Marliyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Elle Mcpherson and Kim Basinger. Kylie nominated by the Australian Record Industry Association for the Best Female Artist, Highest Selling Record and Best Australian Video of 1994 ("Put Yourself In My Place"), winning the latter.

October 1995
With a video featuring Kylie playing dead in a shallow pond as a snake slides over her, Where The Wild Roses Grow is released, going to No.11 in the UK and No.2 in Australia. Nick and Kylie sing the song live on Top Of The Pops and are also photographed together for the cover of "NME".

During London Fashion Week, Kylie models a punk-style ripped red dress for designer Antonio Beradi.

21st October - At Stonewall’s Equality ’95 bash for gay and lesbian rights, Kylie duets with a dragged-up Elton John on a version of the Andrew’s Sisters’ song Sisters. A photo of the performance makes the cover of Gay Times.

November 1995
Hayride To Hell, the short film that she recorded earlier in the year is screened at the London Film Festival.
Kylie presents at MTV Awards, Paris.

December 1995
Bio-Dome released in U.S.A.

January 1996
Sporting a newly cropped hairdo, Kylie performs with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in Australia at the Big Day Out concerts.

March 1996
"Wild Roses" nominated at the UK Music Week Awards for best video, 1996.

June 1996
At Nick Cave's insistence Kylie recites the lyrics to "I Should Be So Lucky" at the Poetry Olympics, Royal Albert Hall.

6th July - for Gay Pride day, Kylie appears onstage to introduce two acts at the Pride In The Park event on Clapham Common, London. Later that evening, she is the guest host at G-A-Y's Pride Spectacular, introducing Bjorn Again, Margarita Pracatan, Bananarama and Dannii. Although not performing herself, Kylie is persuaded to sing a few lines of Marilyn Monroe's I Wanna Be Loved By You and her sister joins her for a brief acapella of Better The Devil You Know!

7th July - having been persuaded to appear by Nick Cave, Kylie recites the lyrics to I Should Be So Lucky at the Poetry Olympics at the Royal Albert Hall. Kylie is later to put the experience down as a cathartic moment in her career, when she was finally able to accept her 'girl-next-door' past.

Kylie records GBI (German Bold Italic) with Deee-lite DJ Towa Tei in Tokyo for his album Sound Museum. The song is a kooky tune written about a computer typeface! A second track, Sometime Samurai is also recorded but unreleased for several years...

August 1996
15th August - Kylie joins Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds onstage at the Brixton Academy to perform Where The Wild Roses Grow.

September 1996
Once again Europe's "FHM" magazine ranks Kylie amongst the top 20 of "100 Sexiest Women in The World".

October 1996
Kylie and Nick Cave scoop the pools at the Australian Record Industry Association awards for Where The Wild Roses Grow winning 3 awards: ‘Best Single’, ‘Best Pop Release’ and ‘Best Song Of The Year’.

Kylie performs in her second short film, Misfit, by Turner Prize nominee Sam Taylor-Wood. The film features an androgynous, undressed Kylie, lip-syncing to an opera-singer's performance of The Last Castrato.

November 1996
Superstar DJ! Kylie spends a night spinning the discs at London’s Tramshed Club. She also attends the MTV music awards held in London.
The readers of "Sky" magazine vote Kylie (and her sister!) amongst the Top 10 Women Readers Would Most Like To Spend The Night With.

December 1996
Kylie makes a guest appearance when she joins the Manic Street Preachers on stage at the Shepherds Bush Empire to perform Little Baby Nothing.

Kylie makes a cameo appearance in an Australian film called Diana And Me starring Toni Collette (who starred as Muriel in Muriel's Wedding and more recently in The Sixth Sense). Kylie's scenes are shot in Covent Garden in London.

"i-D" magazine publishes a cheeky photo session in which Kylie strips off in the back of a London cab.