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The Spice Girls are a British pop group that formed in 1993. Releasing 3 studio albums and 12 singles globally between July 1996 and November 2008, the group comprised Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Victoria Beckham (née Adams). Below is a list of books, DVDs and videos released by the band.
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Spiceworld: The Movie
- Status: Official
- Released: June 14, 2004.
- Run time: 89minutes
- Starring: Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Richard E. Grant, Alan Cumming and Roger Moore.
- Description: The movie follows the life of The Spice Girls over the course of five days as they prepare for their first live gig at the Royal Albert Hall. They have to overcome various problems, including attempts by a media mogul to sabotage and disrupt their careers to make news headlines.
- Special features: Interviews with The Spice Girls And Richard E. Grant
- Comments: Their debut movie was created in a similar vein to The Beatles A Hard Day's Night, and features a host of star cameo's from the likes of Sir Elton John, Jennifer Saunders, Meat Loaf and Sir Bob Geldof.
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Spiceworld : The Movie (Special Edition 10th Anniversary)
- Status: Official
- Released: November 27, 2007.
- Run time: 93 minutes
- Starring: Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm.
- Description: The movie follows the life of The Spice Girls over the course of five days as they prepare for their first live gig at the Royal Albert Hall. They have to overcome various problems, including attempts by a media mogul to sabotage and disrupt their careers to make news headlines.
- Special features: Mama (Live Bonus Performance), Theatrical Perviews, Cast Bios, Interviews.
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Girl Power!
- Released: March 27, 1997.
- Written by: Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell et al.
- ISBN 0-233-99165-4
- Pages: 80
- Description: The groups first official biography of the group - released just 8 months after their first single went to #1 in Britain. The book reviews the groups rapid rise to fame and the success they had experienced up to that point and follows them as they write their debut studio album, Spice. It also features individual accounts from Victoria, Emma, Melanie C, Geri and Melanie B about their experiences - both positive and negative - of the music industry, on being a celebrity and being idolised by millions of fans.
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Real Life: Real Spice - The Official Story
- Released: October 23, 1997.
- Written by: Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Rebecca Cripps and Mal Peachey. Also features additional material provided by The Spice Girls family and friends.
- ISBN 0-233-99299-5
- Pages: 144
- Description: A comprehensive biography of the group comprised almost entirely of the girls own words. It features a detailed history of each member of the group in their words, together with comments from members of their family. It then goes onto to detail the notable achievement of the group to that point, again in their own words. Creating the group, signing a record deal, recording their album, hitting #1, winning awards, making a movie and future plans are all subjects cover. The book also features three photo portfolios, and exclusive shots scattered through out. There is also a detailed time line at the end.
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Forever Spice
- Released: November 4, 1999.
- Photography: Dean Freeman
- Written by: Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm.
- ISBN 0-316-85361-5
- Pages: 142
- Description: Critically acclaimed book filled with photographs and images taken on the American leg of The Spice Girl's Spiceworld Tour. Alternating between colour and black and white, pictures include those taken on stage as well as off - and includes images taken on the group's promotional tour. Also included are images of Victoria Beckham's now-husband - sporting superstar, David Beckham. Geri Halliwell only features on the first five pages, and her departure from the group is signified by a photo of the mic box with hers poignantly missing. Towards the end, quotes from each members of the group are included.
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Spice Girls
- Released: May 19, 1999.
- Written by: Various. For credits see Spice and Spiceworld.
- ISBN 0-7119-7352-0
- Arrangement: Piano and Voice, with Guitar chord boxes (PVG(B))
- Pages: 64
- Description: Sheet music for songs taken off the Spice Girls first two albums, Spice and Spiceworld: 2 Become 1, Do It, Goodbye, Mama, Say You'll Be There, Spice Up Your Life, Stop, The Lady Is A Vamp, Too Much, Viva Forever, Wannabe and Who Do You Think You Are?
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One Hour Of Girl Power
- Released: April 14, 1997.
- Run time: 60minutes
- Starring: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell.
- Description: Features coverage of the Spice Girls' first year in the limelight. The video follows the group of promotional tours in Britain, America, Japan, Hong Kong and Paris.
- Special features: Promo videos for Wannabe, Say You'll Be There, 2 Become 1, Mama and Who Do You Think You Are. Also features special alternative "Suga Lumps" version of Who Do You Think You are made especially for Comic Relief, starring French & Saunders, Lulu and Kathy Burke.
- Comments: Originally released in 1997, this was the groups first official video.
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Girl Power! Live In Istanbul
- Released: December 1, 1997.
- Run time: --
- Starring: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell.
- Description: Features the groups first ever gig, performed at the Abdi Ipekci Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey on October 13, 1997. Set list includes If U Can't Dance, Who Do You Think You Are?, Something Kinda Funny, Saturday Night Divas, Say You'll Be There, Step to Me, Naked, 2 Become 1, Stop, Too Much, Spice Up Your Life, Love Thing, Mama, Move Over and Wannabe.
- Special features: Behind the scenes look at the performance, video diary and interview with the group discussing their career so far.
- RIAA Certificate: Platinum (for shipments of 100,000 copies in the US)
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Live At Wembley Stadium
- Released: November 16, 1998.
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- Starring: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm.
- Description: Features a full concert recorded at Wembley Stadium. Set list includes If U Can't Dance, Who Do You Think You Are?, Something Kinda Funny, Do It, Too Much, Stop, Where Did Our Love Go?, Love Thing, Lady Is A Vamp, Say You'll Be There, Naked, 2 Become 1, Sisters (Are Doin'It For Themselves), Wannabe, Spice Up Your Life, Mama, Viva Forever, Never Give Up On The Good Times, We Are Family
- Special features: Special interview with The Spice Girls.
- RIAA Certificate: Platinum (for shipments of 100,000 copies in the US)
- Comments: The gig was record at Wembley Stadium on 20 September, 1998. It was the last night of the groups sell out Spiceworld Tour, in which they performed in almost 100 gigs in Europe and North America.
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Spice Girls In America - A Tour Story
- Released: June 7, 1999.
- Run time: --
- Starring: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm.
- Description: Features behind the scenes look at the North American leg of the groups Spiceworld Tour during the summer of 1998. Filmed after Geri Halliwell's departure, the film looks at the girl life both on and off the stage, and also looks at the impact of the 1998 Football (Soccer) World Cup on the group and ramifications David Beckham's infamous sending off had on fiancé Victoria. Camera's also follow the group into the recording studio and fans gets to witness the recording of the groups single, Goodbye.
- Special features: None.
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[edit] Other Merchandise
Spice Girl Chocolate
- Released: 1997.
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- Starring: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell.
- Description: The Spice Girls later signed a deal with Cadburys later in 1997 and went on to have their own chocolate bars. They were made from original milk chocolate and featured the girls on the wrappers with their own personal colour
- Scary Spice - Yellow
- Ginger Spice - Blue
- Baby Spice - Pink
- Posh Spice - Grey
- Sporty Spice - Red
Then Later On a different version was made.
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Spice Impulse
- Released: 1998.
- Run time: --
- Starring: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell.
- Description: The Spice Girls very own deodorant, Spice Impulse. They featured in their own advert walking around naked in a market place. The scent had an exotic flavour and slowly was taken of shelves due to Ginger's departure.
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Spiceworld Pepsi
- Released: November, 1997.
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- Starring: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell.
- Description: Due to the girls sponsorship deal with Pepsi, they released their own era of Pepsi Cans with their own personalised Spices on. It was a dark blue shiny can with a black and white picture of each Spice Girl on each can
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Spice Chupa Chups
- Released: 1997.
- Run time: --
- Starring: Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Melanie Chisholm.
- Description: With The Spice Girls own brand of Chupa Chup Lollipops, they began to take over the UK. The Girls had different flavours between each of them.
- Emma - Strawberry and Cream
- Victoria - Lemon
- Geri - Cola
- Mel C - Strawberry
- Mel B- Orange
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In 1997, Galoob Toys released the Spice Girls Dolls based on the popular girl-group, the Spice Girls.
The dolls became a huge hit during the Christmas seasons of 1997, 1998. 11 Different sets of dolls were released. A "Sound Stage" playset was released and extra costumes "Spiceworld Fashions" alongside the "Spice It Up 2" set were also released. The most sought after line of all the dolls is the original "Girl Power" set. The set features Geri in her iconic Union Flag dress. Dolls featuring the girls with outfits from their music videos were planned, but never released. When Geri Halliwell departed from the group in May of 1998, Galoob continued the line, but with only the four girls. Galoob was subsequently bought by Hasbro. Hasbro continued the line until 2000. The company stopped the line when the sales began to heavily decline. Toymax, later made Singing and Talking Dolls, but they were not popular and many fans thought they were ugly. The dolls are now collectables and can be found on Ebay. Some of the dolls now are very rare and collectable, especially the "Girl Power" & "On Tour" sets that have joints in their arms and legs, and the Spice It Up 2 set with the Spiceworld fashions. Many knock-offs of the dolls have been made, most notably the "Girls Power" dolls and the "Spicy Collections" dolls that don't bear the girl's name.
Five dolls:
- "Girl Power"
- "On Tour" (2 versions of Posh were made, original with long hair, 2nd with new short bob)
- "Superstar Collection" (5 dolls in 1 box)
- "Spice It Up!"
- "Concert Collection"
Four dolls:
- "On Stage" (Pre-production Geri was created, but never produced and sold)
- "Spice It Up 2"(Again pre-production Geri was created, but never produced and sold)
- "Viva Forever 1" (Including the Viva Forever fairy finger puppets) - Hasbro
- "Viva Forever 2" (Including the Viva Forever videotape) - Hasbro
- "Talking Dolls" - Toymax
- "Singing Dolls" - Toymax
[edit] Other Merchandise and Promotions
Cadbury Chocolate: Several chocolate bars, assorted boxes, and holiday confectionaries featuring the girls individually or as a group were produced.
Chupa Chups: Several different tins filled with assorted lollipops featuring a different girl were among the many products released, but the most widely produced was the "Fantasy Ball" Chupa Chups with six different packages each featuring a collectible sticker. In addition, Pushpops, Crazy Dip, and toy microphones were also produced.
Walkers Crisps: In this promotion, over 51 different packaging designs created, with 10 for each member, plus a group package. In addition, the girls starred in two different television adverts for the products.
Pepsi Cola: The girls were featured on several cans and bottles of Pepsi throughout Europe. Promotional give-aways included collectible drinking glasses and a music single. The girls also starred in three different television adverts for Pepsi all featuring the song "Move Over (Generation Next)".
Polaroid: A regular Polaroid instant camera with a pink-and-purple shell and Spice Girl badging was produced along with a Spice Girls branded disposable Polaroid camera and flashlight. Each of the girls filmed a television advert promoting new types of Polaroid-brand film (i.e. black & white, writable, etc.), in addition to making a group advert.
Impulse Deodorant: The girls launched a fragrance known as "Impulse Spice", In addition deodorant and shower gel products were also produced. One television advert was made for the product.
Play Station: "SpiceWorld", a video game featuring computer-animated cartoons of the girls was developed in 1998.
Aprilia Scooters: 5 different scooters, each promoting a Spice Girl, were created and marketed as the "Spice Sonic Effect"
ASDA: British supermarket chain ASDA, created over 40 different Spice Items for Christmas 1997 developing goods such as party supplies, official merchandise, and even Spice Girl branded kids meals in the stores' restaurants.
Tesco Supermarkets: An ad campaign celebrating Christmas with the Spice Girls was created in 2007.
Channel Five (UK): The girls appeared in several promotional print ads, recorded a song (1,2,3,4,5!), and filmed a music video for the song which was the first clip/program ever broadcast on Britain's fifth terrestrial television network in 1997.
Domino Sugar: Spice Girls promoted the sugar, and the company was a sponsor of their North American tour, with clips being played before shows and during intermission on video screens.
Target Stores: American discount retailed was one of the largest suppliers of official Spice Girls merchandise in the United States, usually devoting an aisle to products such as bikes, school supplies, party supplies, and toys.
[edit] Availability of Products
At the height of the 1990s Spice-mania, stores could not keep up with the demand for products. In addition, several unofficial products were created by numerous low-end manufacturers hoping to capitalize on the phenomenon.
Oddly, the United States received much of its merchandise later on than most countries, and did not receive several products. Some of the official products sold as late as 1998 did not feature the band's then-current Spiceworld logo and featured the band's original "Spice" logo. Most of the food products (apart from the Chupa Chups brands and a solely U.S.-produced bubble gum) were never sold in North America. This can be attributed to the girl's the short-timed release of two albums in the North American market and stronger development of its European fanbase.
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