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Article: Pop Tarts: Spice Girls Take Over
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 2, 1997
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England's Spice Girls, who achieved immediate chart and sales
success the Beatles never dreamed of, are releasing a new album,
"Spiceworld." They're preparing for their first-ever concert tour
and putting the finishing touches on "Spiceworld," a "Hard Day's
Night" knockoff scheduled for early 1998 from "Absolutely Fabulous"
film director Bob Spiers.
That's a full plate for the five young women, none of them
singers or musicians, who responded to a 1994 audition notice
seeking "glam girlies" who were "streetwise, outgoing, ambitious."
The newspaper ad didn't mention music, yet the Spice Girls' debut
album, "Spice," has sold 20 million copies. Their ambition has paid
off in other ways, ...