Kylie Minogue reveals she nearly recorded a song with legendary musician Prince back in the '90s

Kylie Minogue almost fulfilled the collaboration of her dreams with music icon Prince, but sadly it wasn't meant to be.

The 52-year-old Aussie singer met the musician backstage after one of his shows in London back in the '90s and they hit it off instantly. In fact, they connected so well that they set out to record a track together. 

"As a 14-year-old hormonally-charged music maniac, Prince was it," she explained in an interview with Apple Music host Zane Lowe.

"And then I went to see his show ... and got to meet him afterwards, and I don't know where I plucked up the courage from, but I said, 'I'm making an album....' I don't know what I said — no idea! This was before phones and stuff. I'm more gutsy than I kind of make out sometimes, even to myself."

To her surprise, Prince was keen to collaborate. And after hanging out on several occasions, he wanted to make it happen. 

"I had an almost dream come true [collaboration], which was with Prince," she said. "We just kind of hung out. I don't even know what that means, but we hung out and he kind of put me on the spot a bit. He was like, 'So where are your lyrics?'"

Minogue recalled scrawling down lyrics to a song called 'Baby Doll', which Prince then recorded in his own time before sending the cassette with his recording to her apartment. 

"He who slept four hours a night or something and just created stuff the rest of the other 20 hours. That was my almost, we didn't record it," she said. "I suggested it to my label and I think he would want it to do it all and they weren't into that. That was that. I might've been kind of gutsy, but I wasn't ... I wasn't sure enough of myself to say, 'No.'"

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Prince collaborated with a host of big-name artists in his time, including Madonna, Amy Winehouse and Lenny Kravitz.

In 2016, the legendary musician died at his home in Paisley Park, Minnesota, from a reported accidental overdose. He was 57.

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