SPICE GIRL BIOGRAPHYMusic snobs might sniff at the comparison to the Fab Four but all those Beatles dolls, Beatles annuals and movies that made John, Paul, George and Ringo such omnipotent beings in the 1960s were re-created in the 1990s with just as much fervour around Emma, Geri, Mel B, Melanie C and Victoria.
Real pop stars can do their stuff on stage and on record, but they are also unique, entertaining, fun and hold the attention of the whole world just by being themselves.
There have not been many, but the The Spice Girls qualify with ease.
They were draped in the Union Jack colours as much as the Swinging Sixties (literally in Geri’s case at the 1997 BRIT Awards) and what made the Spice experience so special was that this was a British all-female group who had moulded themselves into a phenomenon through talent, single-minded determination and the force of five personalities moulding into one irresistible package. The girls loved them as role models, but Spice even converted the boys to the pop cause.
Spice Girls were so good, they named them all twice. Grandmothers, even teenagers who missed them the first time round, can still name Baby, Ginger, Scary, Sporty and Posh. In July 1996, it was all just beginning for us, startled into taking notice by the arresting video to Wannabe, bringing the phrase Zig-a-zig-ah into the English language. For the Girls, it was just their explosion into the public eye after two years of hard work, holed up together working on songs with producers, on dance routines, honing their natural instinct for stardom.
Suddenly, Wannabe had shone the spotlight on them and they were not about to let it go. That song went to Number 1 in the UK and 30 other countries. It broke America, where it became the highest debut ever in the Hot 100 chart by a British band, beating the Beatles’ I Want To Hold Your Hand. The next two singles, Say You’ll Be There and 2 Become 1 made Number 1 in 53 countries.
They were the fastest selling British band since the Beatles when debut album Spice was released in November 1996 and comparisons were made to the Fab Four in terms of British balance of trade as much as musical impact.Second album Spiceworld sold over ten million copies, spawning massive hit singles Spice Up Your Life, Too Much, Stop and Viva Forever and of course Spiceworld: The Movie. It followed the Beatles’ Hard Day’s Night into the pantheon of self-deprecating studies on the pop phenomenon. The film grossed in excess of $100 million in cinema ticket and DVD sales.
The Girls toured the world, silencing cynical critics by receiving hefty acclaim for their stage spectacle.
Of course, Geri left to pursue her own destiny and the Fab Five became four. But they carried on, as popular as ever and released third album Forever in 2000 before going their separate ways.
Their record of 9 UK Number 1 singles and 55 million records sold is breathtaking by the standards of this new millennium.
Their solo careers collectively posted almost as impressive numbers. Over the course of the last 7 years, the world’s media has followed every detail of the Girls’ lives and that hunger for extra Spice was graphically displayed on June 28 this year when the Emma, Geri, Mel B, Melanie C and Victoria came together at London’s O2 Arena to announce their reunion tour.The global media welcomed them back with obvious affection as the group seemed as fresh and fun as they did in that 1996 Wannabe video. The global public were even more enthusiastic, registering for the ticket ballot at http://www.thespicegirls.com in droves. 3 million registered within a month, extra dates were announced and masses of media attention ensued.
Coming soon: proper pop is back, Spice up your life!
Spice Girls are represented globally by Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment.
The Spice Girls
COMING SOON!
The Spice Girls rocketed to the top of the music world in the 90s and now they are back performing at sold-out venues across the globe. Zigazigha for the high-kicking story of Girl Power!.
The Spice Girls
birth place: England
- The Spice girls were heavily influenced by Madonna.birth place: England
- With the exception of Posh (Victoria Beckham), all the girls came from working class family backgrounds.
- Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack dress became a symbol of “Cool Britannia”.
- Geri’s Union Jack dress made £36,000 when it was auctioned for charity.
- Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) has a blue belt in Goju, and taught the other girls how to do karate kicks in the video for “Say You’ll Be There”.
- The hit single “Wannabe” is the biggest selling single by an all-female group.
- “Spice” is the 13th highest-selling album of all time in the UK (3 million+ sold).
- The Spice Girls’ have sold a total of over 55 million records.
- “Spiceworld: The Movie” broke the record for the highest-ever debut for the SuperBowl Weekend (January 25th 1998) in the US, with sales of over $10 million. (This record has since been beaten by the movie The Butterfly Effect in 2004. )
- To coincide with their comeback tour, the Spice Girls licensed their name and image to Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, and were reportedly paid £5 million to appear in Tesco advertisements.
- The girls’ “Greatest Hits” album has gone platinum in Great Britain and Australia, and has gone gold in the USA, Canada, Brazil and New Zealand.
- In 2007, the girls signed a deal to sell their Greatest Hits albums in Victoria’s Secret lingerie boutiques and on the store’s website.
- In a Rolling Stone readers’ poll in 2007, the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” was ranked at number 8 in a list of “the most annoying songs”.
- Prior to their reunion, the Spice Girls topped a Yahoo! Music poll for the band that fans would like to see reunite most.
- The Spice Girls made the highest ever annual earnings by a female group in 1998, when they earned over $49 million.
The Spice Girls
birth place: England
Albums:
*Greatest Hits (2008)*Forever (2000)
*Spice world (Japan Bonus Track) (1998)
*Spiceworld (1997)
*Spice (1996)
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