Pete Waterman: 'We had no concept of how big Kylie was'

Music legend Pete Waterman has said that he had no idea who Kylie Minogue was when he agreed to produce her first three albums. The Coventry-born producer features in the Netflix documentary series Kylie, about the Australian singer's rise from the soap Neighbours to global stardom. Waterman said it started with the Australian distributor of Stock, Aitken and Waterman records asking for help to produce her first efforts in the music business in the late 1980s, before her role as Charlene Mitchell in Neighbours made her a star in the UK. "She turns up at the studio, we knocked together I Should Be So Lucky, and she was at the airport by 4 o'clock, to fly back to Australia for Neighbours. I Should Be So Lucky was the second hit Stock, Aitken & Waterman produced for Kylie - the first was a re-mixed version of The Loco-Motion which had already been a number one in Australia. Waterman said that his first impressions of Minogue were that she was very quiet, but determined. "I remember Matt [Aitken] telling me 'this kid's got an amazing voice and is a great learner of a song'. We taught her the song once, she'd remembered it straight away. Because she's an actress, of course," he said. Ho