Spice Girls
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Taking On The Britboys: Spice Girls
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, April 1996
JUST WHEN BOYS with guitars threaten to rule pop life – Damon's all over Smash Hits, Ash are big in Big! and Liam can't move ...
The Spice Girls: Girls Just Wanna Be Loaded
Profile and Interview by 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 ...
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Big Issue, The, December 1996
THE PAY IS GOOD, the perks are fantastic, but there's one thing they never tell you about being a pop star – the hours are ...
What's The Piquancy…?: Spice Girls: Spice (Virgin)
Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, December 1996
THEY'RE NOT MANUFACTURED! They're not the female Take That! They drink, swear, shag and write their own songs! They believe in "girl power" and use ...
Larging it? I should zigah-zigah
Report by Caitlin Moran, Times, The, 10 January 1997
Those who live their lives by the vocabulary of pop music are fated to repeat it. Sounds fair to me ...
Spice Girls: Too Hot to Handle
Interview by Chris Heath, Rolling Stone, 10 July 1997
How five British pop tarts built their own world empire ...
The Spice Girls: The Notorious Zig-A-Zig-Ah!
Profile by 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 ...
The Spice Girls: Abdi İpekçi Arena, Istanbul, Turkey
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 13 October 1997
Oriental Spice: Sponsor power, not bazaars, draws the Girls to Turkey ...
The new product — Spice Girls: Spiceworld (Virgin) ***
Review by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 31 October 1997
Between the T-shirts, mugs, movies, dolls and video games, the Spice Girls have put out a new album. Caroline Sullivan didn't hate it... ...
The Spice Is Right: Spice Girls: Spiceworld (Virgin)
Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 8 November 1997
You've quaffed the cola and scoffed the crisps — now read the review ...
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Request, December 1997
AT THE end of the day, all they really, really wanted was to "zigazig ha". ...
The Spice Girls: We Have Come For Your Children
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, December 1997
The Spice grip tightens. Nations and markets previously immune to their yelling, pointing, and possibly even their singing, have succumbed. So why are they suddenly ...
Report by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 19 December 1997
The tabloids have turned on them, their fans are leaving them — even Smash Hits readers voted them Worst Group. Is this the end for ...
The Spice Is Right: The Spice Girls: Spiceworld: The Movie
Film/DVD/TV Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 3 January 1998
DIRECTOR: Bob Spiers STARRING: Sporty, Posh, Ginger, Scary, Baby, Richard E Grant, Roger Moore, Michael Barrymore ...
The Spice Girls: The Girls Can't Help It
Report and Interview by Jerry Thackray, Vox, May 1998
They were supposed to have sunk without a trace by now, but it seems that everyone still wants a piece of the SPICE GIRLS. Certainly ...
Spice Girls: Gone But Not Forgotten
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, Sunday Times, The, 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 ...
Report by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 2 August 1999
So Mel C thinks Geri H is untalented, does she? When girl bands break up, says Caroline Sullivan, the pops get personal ...
Obituary by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 14 August 1999
BOB HERBERT, who has died in a car crash aged 57, didn't invent the idea of the packaged pop group, but, as the man responsible ...
Robotic Neurotics: Spice Girls: Evening News Arena, Manchester
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Guardian, The, 6 December 1999
YOUR BAND may take a year off, but if you are a Spice Girl you just can't keep out of the headlines. ...
Aromatic For The Little People: Spice Girls: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 8 January 2000
NEWS JUST IN: David Beckham has had a clause inserted in his contract with Manchester United which says he can become a free agent and ...
Melanie C: Reason/Moloko: Statues/Clipse: Lord Willin'
Review by Lisa Verrico, Times, The, 21 February 2003
Melanie C has too much going for her to rejoin the Spice Girls. ...
The Spice Girls: It Was a Power Trip
Retrospective by Caitlin Moran, Times, The, 14 July 2006
Ten years after the release of the first Spice Girls album, our writer argues that the social legacy of "girl power" is still with us. ...
The Spice Girls: Never Mind The Bum Notes
Live Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 3 January 2008
The Spice Girls: O2 Arena, London ...
see also Victoria Beckham
see also Geri Halliwell
see also Melanie C
see also Melanie B
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