From Ramsay Street to “I Should Be So Lucky”, “Confide in Me” to “Spinning Around”, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”, to “Padam Padam”, Kylie Minogue has achieved something vanishingly rare: surviving nearly forty years at the centre of pop without ever becoming a nostalgia act.

In his new book Can’t Get You Out of My Head, award-winning music writer Michael Cragg sets out to understand how. Drawing on new interviews, oral history and a lifetime steeped in pop, he traces Kylie’s evolution from soap star to global icon, through reinventions, critical reassessments and the changing machinery of celebrity itself.