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Joan Collins was up for it, and by the time she said she’d do it, it was too late,” says Fuller, while Thompson believes they almost bagged Tony Blair. In Oceania, the album reached number two in Australia and number one in New Zealand; [51] it was ceritifed six-times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ). In the US, "Too Much" peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, their fourth and so far last top-10 single there.

More recently, Mel C has disagreed with comments made by her bandmate Geri Halliwell in 1996, in which she dubbed Margaret Thatcher “the first Spice Girl”. As their star ascended with “Wannabe” in 1996, Simon Fuller touted them around Hollywood studios and sold an option on a Spice Girls film to Disney.Spiceworld was a big success in Canada, it was the group's second diamond-selling album and spent 43 weeks in the Top 10 and 60 weeks in the Top 20 album chart. We wanted to do a film that was very much in the spirit of the girls, and they didn’t take themselves seriously,” Thompson says.

We’d had all the Thatcher years, and it was felt that there was a positive government – a lot of things that we don’t have right now.

Piers Cuthbertson-Smyth, with his camera crew, stalks the girls, hoping to use them as subjects for his next project. For all its distinctly 90s aesthetic, Spice World also harks back to earlier cinema – with the Beatles as a notable inspiration. Its lead single " Spice Up Your Life" became an international success, peaking in the top five positions in many countries.

Elsewhere on the album, re-released in an expanded 25th-anniversary edition to include demos and live recordings, “Stop” is an infectious Motown pastiche (written as a directive to their soon-to-be-chopped manager, Simon Fuller) and “Never Give Up on the Good Times” is an assured slice of '70s disco. On 18 July 2014, the Spice Bus used in the film was put on permanent display at Island Harbour Marina, on the Isle of Wight, England.

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Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. I have so many wonderful memories of writing, recording, promoting and touring this album and so many people to thank. They literally spent the night in a field with the other cows, and had a long lens out of the back of this cow trying to take photos of the girls. because I wasn’t necessarily sure that they would happily show themselves up in this slightly mad, over-exaggerated way. Instead, once Disney’s option had expired in November 1996, Fuller was granted free rein to work on a script, spending time with this “force of nature” of a band to get “an angle on their characters and lives, where they’d come from, and what their attitudes were”.

It's a pure, unadulterated guilty pleasure and some of the best manufactured mainstream dance-pop of the late '90s. Most recently, Mel C spoke of a Spice Girls reunion at Glastonbury this year, telling BBC Breakfast it would be ‘the dream’ for them to play at Worthy Farm and that they ‘would love to do it’. The press were extremely inventive,” says Spice World co-producer Peter McAleese, who was one of the few people in the country who hadn’t heard of the Spice Girls when production company Fragile Films first approached him.