{"id":477479,"date":"2026-02-13T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477479\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:22:08","slug":"how-then-mushroom-records-executive-amanda-pelman-gave-kylie-minogue-her-big-break-when-she-heard-the-locomotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477479\/","title":{"rendered":"How then-Mushroom Records executive Amanda Pelman gave Kylie Minogue her big break when she heard The Locomotion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Pelman\u2019s memoir is not called I Signed Kylie Minogue, despite the former Mushroom Records executive long since accepting that across five decades as a tastemaker, her bet on a young soapie star in 1987 is still what she is best known for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA couple of people said to me, why the hell are you calling this book Four Weddings and an Encore, instead of leaning into Kylie, but I wanted to show that life is not just some sequential career,\u201d Pelman says from Paris, where she moved after Australian rock legend Brian Cadd filed to divorce her in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Pelman\u2019s memoir is not called I Signed Kylie Minogue, despite the former Mushroom Records executive long since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-477479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}