page_title: Kylie (album)
section_title: Recording
hierarchical_section_title: Kylie (album) / Recording
caption_attribution_description: English: Pete Waterman sitting at the controls of the Stapleford Miniature Railways new East African loco in October 2008 during the unveiling and new station opening ceremony.
context_page_description: Kylie is the debut studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, released on 4 July 1988 by Mushroom Records. Minogue had established herself as a child actress before signing to the record label in early 1987. The success of her debut single, "Locomotion", resulted in her working with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, who produced the album and wrote nine of its ten tracks. Their recording sessions, which started in September 1987 and took place in London and Melbourne, coincided with Minogue filming for the soap opera Neighbours.
  Musically, Kylie is a bubblegum pop and dance-pop album. It received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics who criticized its dated production. It was a commercial success, peaking at number one in the United Kingdom for six weeks and becoming the best-selling album of 1988. It is her only number-one album in New Zealand, while peaking at number two in her native Australia. In the United States, it was certified gold for selling over 500,000 copies. Kylie was certified six times platinum in the United Kingdom and has sold over five million copies worldwide.
context_section_description: The success of "Locomotion" resulted in Minogue and Blamey travelling to London to work with Stock, Aitken and Waterman in September 1987. Pete Waterman, the only member of the trio aware of Minogue's trip, was unavailable; he was busy making The Hit Man and Her and had not told Mike Stock she was in London. Minogue and Blamey waited for ten days in their hotel without hearing from the producers. They eventually turned up at the studio at the last minute. The producers wrote "I Should Be So Lucky" in 40 minutes and Minogue recorded it quickly before she returned to Australia that afternoon to work on Neighbours. Stock recalled the abrupt session: "Her ear is very tuned in so I sang her the tune and she sang it back at me and at that point I put the tapes aside and went on to other things ... We treated [Minogue] rather shabbily." He wrote the lyrics in response to what he had learned about Minogue: although she was a successful soap star, he thought there had to be something wrong with her and figured she must be unlucky in love. At the time, the producers did not take Minogue's career seriously because of time constraints and her obligations to Neighbours. They did not even listen to the song until Waterman heard it played by a DJ at a Christmas party that year and said it was "really good".
  In February 1988, Stock travelled to Melbourne and apologised to Minogue for her previous recording session. They went on to record "Got to Be Certain" and "Turn It into Love" with her. Recording sessions with Stock and engineer Karen Hewitt took place at Allan Eaton Studios and RBX Studios in Melbourne for only a couple of hours at night, between filming her last episodes for Neighbours. She frequently broke down emotionally due to pressure from work; Stock said she was "often tearful" at the studio during that time. She took a break from filming Neighbours to fly to London in March. The producers had a copy of "Locomotion" produced by Duffy, which Waterman was not keen on. They re-recorded it with Minogue at their studio in London and changed the name back to "The Loco-Motion". Portions of the vocals from the demo track were kept in the new version. For Kylie, Stock wanted to make an album full of single-potential tracks, similar to the form of greatest hits compilations. Minogue stayed with her mother in Waterman's apartment during the recording sessions over Easter in 1988, which took place at PWL Studios 1, 2 & 5 (London).
caption: Along with Matt Aitken and Mike Stock, Pete Waterman (pictured) wrote and produced Kylie
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