Forget Second Coming! Ignore Chinese Democracy! Laugh in the face of Smile! Next month sees the release of the greatest, most breathlessly anticipated lost album in the history of recorded music. That's right - Dannii Minogue's The 1995 Sessions.
No doubt you will still remember the agony of 14 years ago when you heard that the third Dannii Minogue album – the follow-up to her seminal 1992 top 60 opus Get Into You – was being cruelly shelved because of a dispute between Minogue and her label MCA over its distribution. For many, the pain is still too much to bear.
In the ensuing years, however, rumours have been building about just how important Dannii Minogue's third album would have been. General consensus suggested that if you multiplied Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes with Carnival of Light by the Beatles and then smeared the results with Mozart's Requiem, you'd be left with something that isn't even a tenth as brilliant as the humanity-defining work that Minogue was obsessively slaving over in 1995.
And now, finally, we can hear the fruits of Minogue's labour. On 23 November, The 1995 Sessions – a compilation of rare and unreleased recordings made for the aborted third album – will be released. And what a compilation it is! The 1995 Sessions sees peak-era Minogue meditating on subjects as diverse as love (Free Your Love), love (Love and Affection), love (Let Love Into Your Life), love (Crazy for Your Love), love (Love in Me), love (Love Will Find a Way) and not wanting to leave somebody now (Don't Wanna Leave You Now).
Truly, we are humbled that Minogue has chosen now to bestow such an auspicious gift on us. Philanthropy has fuelled the release of The 1995 Sessions. Not a suspicion that if she goes on X Factor and mimes one of the songs from it like Cheryl Cole did the other week then she'll probably end up with a No 1 record. Philanthropy.
