The Spice Girls: The Notorious Zig-A-Zig-Ah!
David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 16 August 1997
THERE'S NO ducking it. The Spice Girls are undoubtedly the most successful British teenypop act. Their album, Spice, has sold over seven million albums in Europe alone. They've topped the charts and gone triple platinum in America, a market notoriously impervious to British pop, selling more Stateside than all the Bay City Rollers, Kylies and Take Thats before them put together.
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