Kylie is turning 40 and MAX is giving their home grown Queen of Pop – as well all her fans across Australia – the biggest birthday party imaginable. To mark this momentous occasion, MAX has organised Kylie-a-thons galore, as well as what they humbly believe to be the greatest music competition ever to be staged in the history of Australian music television.

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IT’S not often you hear the dark prince of rock, Nick Cave, deliver a glowing endorsement. But one of the most esteemed musicians in Australia has come out for Kylie.

Cave has traded his snarling cave-man charm for adoring appreciation.

Cave delivered a glowing review when asked his thoughts on the singer, with whom he collaborated on the 1996 hit Where the Wild Roses Grow.

“Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music,” Cave told Cream magazine.

“Before her the world didn’t have a clue about our music nor any interest in it. Kylie has more greatness in her little fingernail than every Aussie indie band put together.” The man has spoken.

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Kylie has kicked off her long-awaited tour with ex-boyfriend Olivier Martinez in the audience.

The French actor – who split from the singer in February 2007 – joined 10,000 fans at Paris’ Bercy Stadium, in France, at the opening night of ‘KylieX2008′.

An onlooker said: “Olivier looked on very proudly as Kylie wowed fans with the show, which was spectacular.”

Kylie – who recently denied claims she had rekindled her romance with Olivier, insisting they were just friends - opened the show above the stage in a full-length purple gown amid green wires in a gold hoop as she performed Speakerphone from her latest album ‘X’.

As well as singing a host of her classic hits including Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and Step Back In Time, she thrilled the crowd with her own version of Barry Manilow’s Copacabana.

The tour has cost over £10 million to stage and includes 53 dates across Europe, concluding with a six-night residency at London’s O2 arena ending in August.

It is her first full tour since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005.

Kylie – who on Monday (05.05.08) was pronounced a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters in France – recently revealed she was counting down the days until the tour started.

She said: “The countdown has begun!! Not long now before opening night for ‘KylieX2008′!!!!

“My cast, crew and I have been working hard to really make this show ’spectacular’ for you. Full production rehearsals are coming up and we are very excited to merge all the various elements of the show.”

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Kylie’s famously petite feet followed in the footsteps of some pretty big names this week – Ella Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Bob Dylan and Robert Redford – as she received France’s highest cultural honour, the Order of Arts and Letters. Paris in the springtime loves Kylie, and the feeling has long been mutual. This was the city she decided to make her home in the months after her breast cancer was diagnosed. Twenty-four hours before this opening night of her world tour, Caroline Albanel, the French Culture Minister, declared that the singer was a “Midas of the international music scene who turns everything she touches into gold”.

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Kylie Minogue has been awarded one of France’s top cultural awards for her “contribution to the enrichment of French culture”.

Kylie will receive the Chevalier dans L’ordre des Arts et Lettres from the French government at a ceremony in Paris on Monday, the day before her world tour, KylieX2008, opens in the capital.

She says: “I am deeply honoured to be recognised in this way. French culture has influenced me greatly and I have always had colossal respect for the arts and people of France”.

Past recipients of the award include Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.

Kylie is also set to receive a prestigious honour in the UK later this year - she will be awarded the Order of The British Empire (OBE) by British monarch Queen Elizabeth II for her services to music.

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Kylie, who is well-known for her stunningly dramatic costume changes, donned a fuchsia kimono, white foundation and vivid pink eyeshadow for the transformation.

KylieX2008 is the her first major world tour since her battle with breast cancer. The £10 million show will see her performing in Greece, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Luxembourg, Russia, Latvia and Spain, and has already taken over half a million in sales.

The tour begins on 6 May in Paris, and moves to the UK in June at the Belfast Odyssey Arena before moving to Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester ending at the O2 Arena in London.

Meanwhile, Kylie is said to have abandoned plans to crack America after her latest attempt failed.

She reportedly told a friend: ‘I gave it my best shot. I won’t try again.’

Kylie hit the US promotional trail hard, and appeared on numerous US shows to promote her album X, including The Today Show, Dancing With The Stars, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Late Late Show.

But, despite her attempts, the record All I See sold only 6,000 copies and debuted at number 139 on the US Billboard charts.

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KYLIE MINOGUE’s Australian fans helped give the pop star a much-needed boost during her cancer battle by refusing to give up their tickets for her cancelled concerts.
The singer was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and had to scrap the Australian leg of her Showgirl tour - but fans Down Under never gave up hope the pop star would return to the stage.
She says, “Most of the Australians didn’t return their tickets and I thought, ;They’ve got them stuck on the fridge or in the corner of a handbag. What will they do with them?’
“It gave me a goal to get well for.”

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Former pop star Kerry Katona says Kylie Minogue would make a great mother.

The comments followed an announcement by Minogue that she may never settle down and have a family.

Minogue, 40, told a magazine, “I never had the feeling of a conventional marriage with a terraced house in the suburbs.”

She even doubted if having children would be the right decision for her and pointed at how icons like Debbie Harry and Dolly Parton had managed to have great careers without having families.

Katona, however, believes Minogue could do better and should consider having a family and not make her career her top priority.

She said: “I just hope she won’t grow old lonely.”

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Kylie is counting down the days until her world tour starts.

The Wow singer - whose ‘KylieX2008′ tour kicks off in Paris, France, on May 6 - can’t wait to get back on the road and has promised a stunning show.

She said: “The countdown has begun!! Not long now before opening night for ‘KylieX2008′!!!!

“My cast, crew and I have been working hard to really make this show ’spectacular’ for you. Full production rehearsals are coming up and we are very excited to merge all the various elements of the show.”

The 39-year-old beauty admits she has been working so hard rehearsing for the tour, she was relieved to have a break while filming her latest video All I See.

She wrote on her official blog: “I hope you liked the little All I See video we did especially for you! I managed to squeeze in three hours filming at the end of a long day’s shooting for the show. And, as I always say.’When in doubt, apply more glitter!’ Girls can’t get enough of a glitter drop!

“As all my time seems to be taken up with elaborate and difficult rehearsals it was fun to do something simple and spontaneous. Back to the studio now and I will check in with you again before May 6th!”

Source: The Age

Kylie was invited to a friend’s house for dinner – and was introduced to one of New York’s wealthiest businessmen.

And pal’s say the two hit it off immediately.

‘We threw a dinner party as a way of setting Kylie up on a date when she was in New York to promote her album, X,’ a friend tells the Sunday Mirror.

‘Now she plans to meet up with him again.’

It’s thought the mystery man owns a yacht and a private jet.

After the success of the first match, friends are said to be thinking of lining up another surprise blind date for her 40th birthday on 28 May.

Source: Now Magazine