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Oh me? I'm just waiting for Go Go Go to arrive. :teresa:

The tease of that leaking coming and go (go go)-ing :cry: I hope we get it eventually!

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This performance of 'Stop' was aired on TOTP on either Friday 6th or 20th March. I wondered if anyone knew where it was filmed while they were on tour. Thanks :D

 

The tease of that leaking coming and go (go go)-ing :cry: I hope we get it eventually!

 

It will come! :gold: :thumbup:

 

This performance of 'Stop' was aired on TOTP on either Friday 6th or 20th March. I wondered if anyone knew where it was filmed while they were on tour. Thanks :D

 

Judging Victorias hair this might have been recorded during tour rehearsals in Dublin

It was filmed in February 1997 in either Ireland or a studio in London for an Australian TV show “Hey, Hey, it’s Saturday”.

 

Thank you so much!

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Randomly I wanted to check how old the girls were when they released their solo albums...

 

 

20s

June 1999: Schizophonic (Geri - 26 years, 10 months)

Oct 1999: Northern Star (Melanie C - 25 years, 9 months)

Oct 2000: Hot (Mel B - 25 years, 4 months)

Apr 2001: A Girl Like Me (Emma - 25 years, 3 months)

May 2001: Scream If You Wanna Go Faster (Geri - 28 years, 9 months)

Oct 2001: Victoria Beckham (Victoria - 27 years, 5 months)

Mar 2003: Reason (Melanie C - 29 years, 2 months)

Feb 2004: Free Me (Emma - 28 years, 1 month)

 

2 albums: Geri, Melanie C, Emma

1 album: Mel B, Victoria

 

 

30s

Apr 2005: Beautiful Intentions (Melanie C - 31 years, 3 months)

June 2005: Passion (Geri - 32 years, 10 months)

June 2005: L.A. State of Mind (Mel B - 30 years, 1 month)

Dec 2006: Life in Mono (Emma - 30 years, 10 months)

Mar 2007: This Time (Melanie C - 33 years, 2 months)

Sep 2011: The Sea (Melanie C - 37 years, 8 months)

Sep 2012: Stages (Melanie C - 38 years, 8 months)

 

4 albums: Melanie C

1 album: Geri, Mel B, Emma

 

 

40s

Oct 2016: Version of Me (Melanie C - 42 years, 9 months)

Apr 2019: My Happy Place (Emma - 43 years, 3 months)

Oct 2020: Melanie C (Melanie C - 46 years, 9 months)

 

2 albums: Melanie C

1 album: Emma

 

If Melanie C isn't releasing her next album until after 12th January 2024, then this would become the first album from a Spice Girl in her 50s! I feel like the above highlights how infrequently she releases albums, given that she might end up only having two albums released during her 40s. Obviously that still beats the others! Unless Emma has any plans before 2026...

 

 

Victoria released This Groove/Let Your Head Go (and recorded most of the songs for a second album era) when she was 29. It seems if all had gone according to plan then she'd have released her second album when she was 30.

Geri's Man on the Mountain unreleased album leaked in 2016, when she was 44.

I'd say she released pretty frequently in her 30s with one at 31, 33, 37 and 38. I'd imagine budget does limit her somewhat having to recoup losses in other ways. She is obviously very focused on building her gigs and festival presence again this year.

 

I honestly cannot understand why she doesn't get a Singles Collection out, I'm sure she could come to some kind of agreement with Virgin, guess she does not want to work with them after previous experiences.

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They were all so young during the peak years (96 - 01)

 

Imagine having to go through what they went through in your 20s.

They were all so young during the peak years (96 - 01)

 

Imagine having to go through what they went through in your 20s.

 

I was thinking about this literally the other day. I was watching the Wembley Stadium concert and thinking how much they’d achieved during 1996-1998. Their ages during the Wembley gig were 22-24. Crazy 🤯

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With a lot of my favourite artists, as I’ve gotten older than they were at the height of their fame (quite significantly, now I’m 35 😫) it really makes me realise just how young they were. I was only 10 by the time they played Wembley, so I just didn’t have an understanding of age. To me, all adults were either old or very old. :kink: I suppose that’s normal, but even like when I was 18/19 I considered Spice Girls in their early 30s as being rather old. Yet now I’m a bit like “oh Melanie C was only 31 when she released Beautiful Intentions, she was still rather young actually” etc. 😅
With a lot of my favourite artists, as I’ve gotten older than they were at the height of their fame (quite significantly, now I’m 35 😫) it really makes me realise just how young they were. I was only 10 by the time they played Wembley, so I just didn’t have an understanding of age. To me, all adults were either old or very old. :kink: I suppose that’s normal, but even like when I was 18/19 I considered Spice Girls in their early 30s as being rather old. Yet now I’m a bit like “oh Melanie C was only 31 when she released Beautiful Intentions, she was still rather young actually” etc. 😅

 

100% this :kink:

 

I remember thinking Kylie having success in the US at the grand old age of 33 was late in the game, now I'm like, that's not old at all. :heehee: In all honesty, these age posts are just giving me anxiety now.

Anyone reading Michael Gragg's Reach For The Starts book? It is brilliant and it gives some cute little insights into the girls. Quite funny at times and includes loads of interviews (both old and new) with the girls and their colleagues, as well as old 'enemies' who have turned it around since the hey days and nowadays see the positive of the Spice Girls, like Mel Blatt from All Saints and Shirley Mason from the Garbage.

 

For instance, Gregg Musaak hates Wannabe video but is happy with how it made an impact, and he also doesnt really like Who Do You Think You Are (he calls it unfinished and is really disparaging of Simon Fuller for it) or Let Love Lead The Way (he hates that he had a cheap budget for it). Biff and Matt Rowe were really drunk when recording Goin Down with Mel C, for instance lol

 

They also dispell a myth (while making another lol) about Victoria and Wannabe: she was present during the writing and recording of the original Wannabe demo, but what she missed out on was the mastering session. So it is not like she was ever gonna get a line if she wasnt in the original either even if she was in the room and contributed to the writing at least... But they cant remember why she wasnt there for the mastering lol, all of them have different versions of it lol

 

I've only read the two Spice chapters, which open the book, and there are plenty more stuff in there that is quite cute!

Ive ordered the book, i think it will arrive either tomorrow or tuesday.

My main take from it is how Simon comes across really badly (not that we already didn't know!)... The quotes on how he managed the girls are quite stark, but I want to focus on his treatment of their music in 1997.

 

It is clear that all the focus from him was on advertisement and maximising exposure rather than the actual music and creative side. For instance, Greg Musaak talks quite harshly about how he went to Simon with an unfinished video for Who Do You Think You Are and Simon basically dictated that it was done and that was it, which obviously pissed Greg off. Greg also mentioned that it was during the video shoot that the girls were each announced as millionaires so it was a crazy atmosphere on set!

 

Mel C doubles down on how her main problem with Simon that lead to her agreeing to firing him was the focus away from music whereas she wanted to focus on the quality (same as Emma) of the music and videos. Also Biff talks about how they recorded Spice Up Your Life in 2hours and within 4hours Simon had decided it was the first single and that they had a release date for the album without having even started to make any music. He also talks about how frustrating the whole thing was, and that he had to throw a fit to have the managers/security stop harrassing him in the studeo (they wanted to get the girls back to the film) and got them to go to a smaller room and write Viva Forever on the floor, on a guitar. Hereas Biff doesnt technically say anything directed at Simon, it does come across as a dig because he is talking about the whole period and how it was all madness.

 

Mel C mentions that Spiceworld the album took a lot longer than the movie to make, and Biff says that they were in the studio for 4-5months to make the album. This, together with the comments he made around 2021 (that there were more demos from Spiceworld than Spice), you can tell that there was more music that we have never learned about...

I definitely want to get it but don’t want to pay £17 for a book!!! A tenner is my utmost limit I can’t do it! Will keep an eye out for it being reduced.
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