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Interviewing the band was like being dragged into a Top Shop dressing room by a hen party on its third day. They suffered no fools, and took no prisoners. They brought everyone around them to their level," their PR Nicki Chapman once said. For example: When the Spices announced their first reunion tour in , one hapless journalist asked if the band were "unfit to do the dance routines" after having children. But the absolute gold standard, wheels-falling-off-and-car-crashing-into-a-ditch Spice Girls interview was conducted by Jamie Theakston in Luckily, someone's put it on YouTube.

He was also the brother of the Spice Girls' manager Simon - which is how he ended up writing a script for the band's first and so far only feature film, Spice World: The Movie.

I think it was about a young single mother of one of the girls, fighting hardship to form the band. The girls hated the idea, so Kim asked if he could have a shot. The story, such as it is, involves the band preparing for a concert, while dealing with unscrupulous journalists, space aliens and bomb on a bus that mysteriously vanishes. Frankly, I think we did. Pop stars were often cautious about sponsorship deals. But the Spice Girls had no such qualms.

Modern pop artists, starved of income by the economics of streaming, often subsidise their careers by following the Spice Girls' example - but for Simon Fuller, it wasn't about the money. They're no good at maths. The rest were pretty easy really because the girls' characters were already really strong. Jennifer Cawthron, who was also from Leeds, came up with that one because Mel B was so loud and had tried to take over our whole photo shoot.

By , the band were already coming up with replacements. In private, though, Geri called Mel B The Ox "because I could operate perfectly on the most outrageous hangover - or even do a full performance faultlessly after several bottles of champagne - while she would be throwing up in the loo. The last time all five Spice Girls performed together was at the closing ceremony of the London Olympic Games in The band emerged from, then stood astride, five London black cabs, as they played Wannabe and Spice Up Your Life to rapturous applause.

According to Mel C, they had rehearsed the performance for a week and a half but were still absolutely petrified. Victoria even had a panic attack inside one of the taxis and almost refused to come out. That's how you know a real friend. In fact, shambolic is more like it. But it went perfectly.

The Spice Girls' world tour saw them play to 2. In the midst of it all, both Melanie B and Victoria Beckham became pregnant - and went to great lengths to hide it from their crew and fans. Nobody knew why and we'd have to say, 'We're just getting fat'," Mel B disclosed in the tour retrospective, Forever Spice. Then it got ridiculous because I'd have to have a plastic cup in my room to wee in. I needed to wee three or four times during the show and the toilets were miles away.

Officially, the explanation was that she was suffering from exhaustion. But in her autobiography If Only, the singer said she'd been frustrated that the band had prevented her from giving a TV interview about surviving breast cancer in her teens. This was about saving lives," she wrote. Ginger Spice was no more. And for Victoria, "there was one big plus - for the first time ever, I got to sing on Wannabe".

Relationships were strained for several years, but the band eventually kissed and made up. Geri even apologised for quitting on the final date of the band's reunion tour.

I was just being a brat. It is so good to be back with the girls that I love. According to a definitely-not-made-up story in The Sun in , a teenage Prince William was so besotted with the Spice Girls that he tore down his Pamela Anderson poster and replaced it with one of Emma Bunton. He later popped into the Windsor branch of Our Price and bought a copy of their debut album using a bank note with his grandmother's face on it. It was at that same show where Geri reportedly squeezed the buttocks of the future King of England.

Why am I going to stop at the prince? Their first appearance came on an episode of Cilla Black's Surprise Surprise, a booking they secured by "cornering the show's producer in a toilet and zapping her with an a capella version of Wannabe," Victoria later recalled.

They were folded into a segment where a teenage girl called Sally had won the opportunity to present a show on Manchester radio station, Key , and interview a famous band. She managed to hide her disappointment that it wasn't Boyzone. Current affairs magazine The Spectator was the least likely place to find the Spice Girls in , but when Simon Sebag Montefiore bagged an interview with the quintet, he certainly got his money's worth.

It made headlines everywhere. Ever the diplomat, Geri later walked back her comments. I just admire people with ideals," she wrote in the official Spice Girls book, Girl Power. Dominating the front pages after the Brit Awards, Geri's most iconic outfit was originally supposed to be a simple black cocktail dress. The star sold the outfit - which had a CND flag on the back - in to raise money for breast cancer charities. No, not the short-lived Spice Girls musical the less said about that the better but the band's eighth single, and the first to be released after Geri left.

The stop-motion video, created by Aardman Animation, had been commissioned five months earlier but its message was eerily prescient. The couple dated for six years, and Mark popped the question in , just after her Spice Girls audition.

The other girls quickly helped her realise "it was all a mistake". Eventually, she decided the girls were right and they split up the day after her 21st birthday. Two years later, she met David Beckham, they had their first date in Mel C's flat, and the rest is history. The video for Wannabe was supposed to be filmed in Barcelona, but when planning permission fell through the group decamped to the then-unused Midland Grand Hotel in London's King's Cross. We had to bounce through the place singing Wannabe and sweeping away the cobwebs.

The all-night shoot was freezing cold. If you look closely, you can see the band's breath turning into condensation when they sing. The temperature had other effects too - the video was banned in some Asian countries because of the prominence of Brown's nipples.

The Spice Girls' cartoonish personas and instantly-catchy singles attracted a broad coalition of fans, notably children, who the music industry had previously considered a small market. TV shows like Fireman Sam and Teletubbies suddenly found themselves in the top 10 too.

The firing was front page news around the world. Many commentators speculated that Fuller had been the true mastermind behind the group, and that this was the moment when the band lost their impetus and direction. The group quickly found the burden of managing themselves time- consuming, so they assigned various responsibilities to each member of the group: Melanie B.

They later built their own team, headed by Nancy Phillips, to deal with their affairs. Two of the Spice Girls, Emma Bunton and Victoria Adams, later returned to Fuller's stable once it was clear that the impetus behind the group was starting to disappear. In December , the second single from Spiceworld , Too Much , was released.

This became the second Christmas number one for the group and the sixth consecutive number one hit single in the UK. In February , the Spice Girls won a special award for overseas success at the Brit Awards, for sales of 32 million albums worldwide, That night, the girls performed their next single, Stop.

This was their only track not to hit number one in Britain it entered and peaked at number two. In early the Spice Girls embarked upon the world tour that Fuller had set up for them covering Europe and North America. Performing to 2. It was here that recordings were made for a planned live album. Despite masters of the recording being made, the idea was eventually dropped. This was their last song recorded with Geri's vocals, until On May 31, Geri announced her departure from the Spice Girls after many rumours cropped up about her disappearance from the group in interviews, which the girls were fully unaware of her status at the time.

A statement was released by the Spice Girls sent a statement to the offices of their solicitors in central London at BST:. The Spice Girls are here to stay, see ya at the stadiums. We are sorry to all of our fans for having to go through all this. One final thing if I can add, and that's there are no problems with the American tour going ahead as planned.

The four remaining girls were adamant though that the group would carry on and that they're approaching North American tour would continue as normal; however, Halliwell's departure threw most of the group's plans into disarray.

It was cited as the reason the planned live album was cancelled. It also meant that most of the material the girls had recorded throughout the first half of at Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios with long-time collaborators Richard Stannard and Matt Rowe was eventually scrapped. A rumoured animated venture by Disney also failed to materialise. The Spice Girls returned to the studio in August , after an 8 month recording break to start work on their third album.

The album's sound took a mature direction when American producers like Rodney Jerkins, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis came on to collaborate with the group. In December they performed live for a UK-only tour, named Christmas in Spiceworld, in London and Manchester, also showcasing new songs from the third album. Despite being at the event, Halliwell did not join her former bandmates on stage.

In November the group released Forever. Further planned single releases off the album never materialised. The split lasted for about seven years when the girls were to formally announce on June 28, , during a press conference that they would tour as a quintet for the last time.

This was the first tour to feature the return of Geri Halliwell after she quit The Spice Girls in This was the last tour to feature Victoria Beckham. After years of speculation from the media about the reformation, they confirmed that they would go on tour as a quintet for the last time.

Filmmaker Bob Smeaton directed an official documentary on the reunion as well as looking back at their past exploring each girl's comments and opinions on them, entitling it Spice Girls: Giving You Everything.

They also recorded a comeback single, Headlines Friendship Never Ends , was announced as the official Children in Need charity single for and was released 5 November, from their Greatest Hits album. The Spice Girls cut their tour short in due to family commitments. In September , rumours emerged of a second Spice Girls reunion after Brown, Chisholm, Halliwell and Bunton were photographed having a meal together in London. Victoria Beckham was absent from the night due to her work schedule.

Brown then mused about the possibilities of another tour on her Twitter. In the same month, Brown admitted in a Colombian interview that she is planning to get together with the groups' former members for a reality show, stating that she was looking for " girls " inspired in the Spice Girls. The musical was written by British comedian Jennifer Saunders. As the members of the group pursued solo careers and their personal lives flourished, the Spice Girls took an indefinite hiatus in December Seven years later, all five of the women revealed their plans to reunite for a worldwide tour.

They gathered again in August to perform a medley of their greatest hits at the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics in London. Beckham, for her part, distanced herself from her bandmates in November when Halliwell, Mel B, Chisholm and Bunton shared their intentions to tour again without the fashion designer , who declined to participate. I know they will put on an amazing show and the fantastic fans past and present are going to have a wonderful time!