Article: IT'S A SPICE WORLD; How the Spice Girls sold 15 million albums worldwide in less than a yea r.(Features)

t all started in March 1994 with an advert in the entertainment weekly The Stage: "Are you streetwise, ambitious, dedicated?" it read. Hundreds of wannabe pop stars replied. Five were chosen and the Spice Girls were born. Well, almost.

The first band was actually called Touch and didn't include Emma Bunton. She replaced Michelle Stephenson - now known as "Unlucky Spice" - in July that year and the band got a new name, the single word Spice.

It wasn't until the following March that the girls met top pop manager Simon Fuller, and from their first ...

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