Kylie Minogue and Dickie take a walk down memory lane
Kylie Minogue has long been a familiar identity in households across Australia.
From her early days as Charlene in Neighbours, to her countless pop anthems spanning across five decades and reaching award-winning international success.
But a new three-part Netflix docuseries will explore the Aussie pop princess' personal life and career like never before.
The pair recalled an interview from the late '80s where Kylie wanted things to slow down a bit. Nine
Nine entertainment editor Richard Wilkins sat down with his long-time friend to discuss her involvement in the project and reminisce about one of their first interviews back in Dickie's MTV days.
"We've been doing this a long time now," the Spinning Around singer laughed with Dickie.
"You know, someone sent me an interview we did – I think it was maybe 1987 – and you were very surprised you'd had a big hit in the UK," Dickie said.
Dickie recalled in the trip down memory lane that Kylie had said to him she wished things would "slow down a little bit".
This was hot off her popularity in Neighbours, then scoring her first UK number one with her single I Should Be So Lucky.
"Oh wow... If only she knew," Kylie laughed, reflecting on the stellar success she has enjoyed consecutively in Australia and abroad since the late '80s.
The new docuseries, Kylie, was a "complete trustfall", she admitted, revealing the timing felt right to go ahead with it this year.
Kylie told Dickie now felt like the right time to do a documentary. Today
"I'd been asked to do a documentary again and again and again and I appreciate all those offers... but it just wasn't the right time," she said.
The Netflix special looks at Kylie's upbringing, her career highs and lows and even intimate parts of her personal life... including her breast cancer diagnosis in 2005.
"I think in the end just kind of letting go of stuff, I mean I've seen it... you've seen it Dickie... I'm not sure what the reaction is going to be... but I'm almost sort of relieved," Kylie said.
"It's a story told really well, very cleverly with humour and with heart and it's forward-looking.
"There may have been a point in my life where I would have seen a documentary as kind of wrapping things up... but after Padam Padam, Tension and my biggest world tour last year... this feels like a new beginning."
Kylie premieres on Netflix tomorrow and you can check out Dickie's full chat in the video above.
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