Product Description

No pop group since The Beatles has commanded the media attention that the Spice Girls did in the 1990s. They were heaped with unprecedented extremes of adulation and scorn. And yet the true story of how the group came together and what exactly they had to do in order to achieve fame and fortune on such an extraordinary scale has never been told until now.For years the key players involved in the managing and moulding of the Spice Girls have surrounded themselves with a wall of silence. In a series of exclusive and remarkably candid interviews they reveal for the first time their version of events that created and sustained the Spice phenomenon. Their first manager Chris Herbert, who invented the group and was then abandoned by them.Simon Fuller, the manager who steered them to success and was then himself fired in a blaze of publicity. The songwriting and production teams, the PRs, marketing managers, A&R men, lawyers and record company executives all contribute for the first time to a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of the biggest pop phenomenon of recent times.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #347628 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 324 pages

Review
'...finally receives the insightful telling it deserves. Thorough and engaging.' Q'A sterling attempt to explain the success of [the Spice Girls]...definitive.' Observer Music Magazine

About the Author
David Sinclair was a close observer of the Spice Girls throughout their heyday and beyond. In the course of reporting on their adventures for The Times, he has met and interviewed them collectively and individually. He has drawn extensively on 20 years of experience as a pop critic.

Customer Reviews

"Revisited"? There's absolutely NOTHING new in this one...
It's a fantastic book on the Spice Girls and if you're a fan it's worth having, BUT the title and cover are misleading. The book is EXACTLY the same as the "Wannabe" book that came out in 2005. If you have that it is NOT worth buying this book - there are NO extra chapters, NO new pictures, even though the back mentions the 2007/8 tour. I, for one, was VERY pissed off when I got this only to find it's exactly the same as the book I already have.

Just giving 4 stars for the book itself - it loses a point for the misleading title and cover.

Larger Than Life

Even if you have never bought a record in your life, everyone knows of the Spice Girls.

This book is an attempt to place the Spice Girls into a slot in the history of pop music.

Even though the Spice Girls are no longer producing music together they are still in the newspapers for various reasons, perhaps more than they would like to be and certainly more than they should be.

This book covers pretty much everything about them, from the original advertisement asking for "street-wise, outgoing ambitious and dedicated" 18-32 year olds to apply.

The book covers the high and lows of the group, the happy times and the tantrums.

If you are interested in the Spice Girls this is the book for you.

A fun book to read but comes with a misleading book title
Although I have to admit that this is a fun book to read especially when you are a great fan or a loyal Spice Girls follower, the book does not contain any new chapters on the Spice Girls, their news updates and even the news on their 2007/2008 tour.

It is the First Edition book printed wayback in Year 2004. If you want to know what they are doing after Year 2004, avoid buying this book. But if you are a die-hard fan wanted to know more about the girls, then go for it.