Spice Girls: Gone But Not Forgotten
Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 21 June 1998
POOR GAZZA. Or should that be typical Gazza? Looking for a holiday destination as far from the World Cup as possible, he chooses the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. And what does he find as he checks in? That the Spice Girls are also staying there before the first concert on their American tour.
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