The Spice Girls: Girls Just Wanna Be Loaded
Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 26 July 1996
LAST WEEK, the world was as it should have been. Gary Barlow was number one, the summer's foreign novelty hit, 'Macarena', was panting just behind and the charts were serenely progressing toward autumn.
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