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Kylie Minogue's I Should Be So Lucky: The Story Behind the Song with Mike Stock
26.02.2022 - 12:33 / officialcharts.com
It's a tune that transcends time. An earworm that earned an Aussie soap star five weeks atop the singles chart. A song that cemented Stock Aitken Waterman among pop's most prolific producers.
34 years ago this week, I Should Be So Lucky became Kylie Minogue's first UK Number 1. And, in the name of nostalgia, we caught up with Mike Stock - one third of the production powerhouse behind the song - for a deep dive into how he created this piece of '80s excellence.
It's part of folklore now, I suppose. On the day I met Kylie, we were not expecting to see her or to work with her. An arrangement had been made by David Howells, our business manager, and Pete Waterman; but somehow they forgot to tell me!
Kylie turns up, unannounced, expecting to record a song before she goes back to Australia that same day. I had to think quickly.
In the studio I worked with Matt Aitken, and I remember saying to him that we needed to come up with something right there and then. Kylie had been sent to get a coffee and sit in the waiting room whilst we worked up some ideas.
I asked David Howells to give me some kind of a steer. Who was Kylie? What was she like? What had she done? He told me she was a highly successful actress in Australia, having just won a Logie award for her role in Neighbours - neither of which I had ever heard of! She was pretty, he said, can sing and she's a great dancer. I thought, 'what does she want to make a record with us for? She's obviously got a great career going.' Then I thought, 'she’s got everything as far as a career, work and financial security, but maybe she doesn’t have love. Or maybe someone special in her life.' It seemed to be a half-decent idea. She’s lucky in life, but not lucky in love.
Once the idea was
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