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6 unusual facts about Spice Girls


Crop top

Certain members of the all-female musical groups All Saints and the Spice Girls wore crop tops on stage during their pregnancies, ushering in the trend of showing off one's baby bump rather than hiding it.

Floyd Havard

After leaving boxing, Havard worked in factories and carried out some security work for bands, such as the Spice Girls and Take That.

Girl Heroes

Hopkins argues for a link between the 1990s British band Spice Girls, their vision of girl power, and the creation of a new kind of "girl hero."

Hannah John-Kamen

In 2012, John-Kamen landed the lead role of Viva in Viva Forever, a West End musical based on the songs of the Spice Girls.

Paul Gorman

During this time he contributed regularly to magazines such as Mojo and conducted the first published interview with the Spice Girls.

Whisper Loud

Whisper Loud was a Christian girl pop group, which formed in Seiling, Oklahoma, in 1997, and arketed as a Christian alternative to Spice Girls and Britney Spears.


1997 in Scottish television

The first faces seen are the Spice Girls, who perform "1-2-3-4-5", a rewritten version of the Manfred Mann song "5-4-3-2-1".

Big Bert

He went on to co-producing alongside Jerkins on tracks for bands like B2K and the Spice Girls, prior to contributions own productions to projects by Jennifer Lopez, Dave Hollister, Toni Braxton, Kelly Rowland and Kiley Dean in the early to mid-2000s.

Do Ya/Stay with Me

Not only is it McFly's lowest-charting single, but it is also the lowest-charting Children in Need single to date, peaking lower than Children in Need's 2007 single, "Headlines" by the Spice Girls, which had peaked at No. 11 and "Still Figuring Out" by Elliot Minor, which had peaked at No. 17 in 2008.

Lester Mendez

Mendez's programming, arranging, and remixing credits include artists such as: Jimmy Page, David Byrne, Ricky Martin, Spice Girls, Chris de Burgh, Johnny Mathis, Will Smith, Kerli, Collective Soul, Tarkan, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel, Grace Jones, PM Dawn, Bee Gees, Pet Shop Boys, and Angélique Kidjo.

Mayfair Studios

These rooms were occupied by writers, producers and artists such as Matt Rowe (Spice Girls), the writing/production team of Robbie Williams/Guy Chambers and Herbert Grönemeyer, a successful German singer, actor and composer.

Model 3107 chair

Numerous images in print media have been made with a celebrity mimicking the pose, notably David Frost and a pop single cover of the Spice Girls.

My Man Music

He believed it was like the rebirth of reggae duo Althea & Donna complete with "Spice Girl-style giggles".

Nawal Al Zoghbi

In 2002, she worked with music video director Sherif Sabri to create a new image for her album and single titled "Elli Tmaneito", the video spawned some controversy since it was clearly a copy of the Spice Girls video for their song "Holler".

Scott Firth

Firth has previously played with The Spice Girls on their Return of the Spice Girls Tour, as well as Melanie C, Joan Armatrading, Morcheeba, Steve Winwood, John Martyn, Little Axe, Ruby, Toni Braxton, Elvis Costello, Mari Wilson, Julia Fordham and Sarah Jane Morris

The Hell Song

They were joined with other action figures such as those of Snoop Dogg, Ozzy Osbourne with his family, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Metallica, Eddie the Head, Gene Simmons, Spice Girls, Angus Young, Jesus, Tuck Turner Willison, Alice Cooper and Ludacris .

The Steady On Tour

Since 1998 was the height of the whole Girl Power movement, the girls, who were known for parodying secular songs in their concerts, built a whole set about the women of the Bible, parodying songs by Aretha Franklin, The Chordettes, The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper and the Spice Girls.

Ugenia Lavender

Ugenia Lavender is the title character in a series of children's novels written by Geri Halliwell, who achieved fame as a member of the Spice Girls and as a solo singer-songwriter before deciding to pursue a career as an author.

VH1 Dance Machine

While some pure dance videos like Gina G's "Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit" and Amber's "This Is Your Night" aired, many of the videos shown on Dance Machine were either videos by dance-pop artists like Janet Jackson, Spice Girls, and Ace of Base, videos featuring a dance remix with footage from their original videos re-edited to fit the remix, or videos by non-dance artists that had dance-sounding titles (Hanson's "MMMBop").

Victoria Beckham: Coming to America

Victoria Beckham: Coming to America was a 2007 one-hour American TV special that featured British former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham moving to the United States where her husband, David Beckham, began his career playing soccer for LA Galaxy of the MLS.

Whole Again

It is the fourth best-selling single by a girl group of all time, after "Wannabe" and "2 Become 1" by the Spice Girls, and "Never Ever" by All Saints, as well as being the best-selling girl group single of the decade.


see also

Michelle Stephenson

In 2007, after The Spice Girls reformed, the documentary of Spice Girls return Victoria Beckham stated that Stephenson never fitted into the group.

One Hour of Girl Power

The video for "Who Do You Think You Are" appears in an alternate version, showing behind the scenes footage of the filming with British celebrities including Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Lulu, joining the Spice Girls in the video for the 1997 Comic Relief appeal.