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Tension II review — pop disco with perfect climaxes
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Tension II review — pop disco with perfect climaxes

There’s a general consensus that pop is fleeting and rock lasts a lifetime, but then you look at Kylie Minogue’s career. She launched her singing career in what should have been the least sustainable way imaginable: as Charlene, perky mechanic on the ultra-camp soap. Neighbors. When she left to become a solo star in 1988, she did so with the help of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, the critically derided production line trio that included professional boy-next-door Rick Astley, former girl Samantha Fox and Roland Rat among their roster. They wrote Minogue’s breakthrough hit, I should be so luckywithin 40 minutes, after ordering her to wait outside the recording studio until they arrived