With the return of the Spice Girls on the horizon, Ginger and Sporty talk us through the birth of a pop phenomenon, and how they made Adele cry'The world is infested with evil!' Obviously the world has moved on since the 90s, but the emotional impact that the Spice Girls made on a generation has left its mark. My friend said to me: ‘Why’s Adele crying?’ ‘Cos she just met me!’”Even now, the Spice Girls stats are enough to make your eyes water. “They made all these different bits up,” Rowe told me for my 2004 Spice Girls biography Wannabe. Rather like The Simpsons – another pre-teen phenomenon of the 1990s – the songs of the Spice Girls resonated on many different levels.

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2018 06:56 UTC