| April 28, 1997 | |||||
| SPICE GIRLS WAR DANCE GAFF | |||||
| During a promotional visit to Bali, Indonesia the Spice Girls performed the traditional Maori War Dance, the Haka, causing great offence to the Maori's since the dance is only allowed to be performed by men. | |||||
| April 19, 1997 | |||||
| SPICE GIRLS NOMINATED FOR IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS | |||||
| The Spice Girls have been nominated for 3 of the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards. Other nominees include Oasis, Space, and several other bands. | |||||
| April 16, 1997 | |||||
| SPICE GIRLS TO PERFORM AT MTV EMA'S | |||||
| The Spice Girls will perform at this years MTV Europe Video Music Awards in Rotterdam in November. MTV are said to be planning Europe's largest Internet broadcast in support of the event. | |||||
| April 14, 1997 | |||||
| SCHOOL GIRL REBECCA WINS NIGHT WITH SPICE GIRLS | |||||
| SCHOOLGIRL Rebecca Openshaw is the
envy of her friends after winning a night out
with pop idols the Spice Girls. Ten-year-old Rebecca, a pupil of Red Lane County Primary School, won a competition in the group's official magazine by writing a poem on ''what Girl Power means to you". "She was absolutely dumbfounded," said her mum, Deborah, of Dudden Avenue, Breightmet. "When they told her on the phone her face was amazing to see. It changed colour from white to bright red." "At first her school friends didn't believe her until she took the letter into school. Now she's got loads of letters from cousins and friends to pass on to the Spice Girls." The prize - a dinner in London with the fab five next month - was for two so Rebecca will take her nine-year-old cousin, Chevonne Openshaw. Mrs Openshaw said her daughter is mad about the all girl group and entered every competition connected with them. She has all their CDs, buys all the teen magazines and her bedroom is covered with Spice Girl posters. She copies the way they dress. "She's never been interested in anything like this before, but since the Spice Girls came on the scene, she's become mad about them. Her favourite is Victoria,". Rebecca's poem which has been published in the magazine is: "When I'm grown up I'm not doing the washing up, or cleaning the muck, nor making the beds or cleaning the loo. Because Girl Power means I've got better things to do." |
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| April 12, 1997 | |||||
| SPICE GIRLS ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE | |||||
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| April 11, 1997 | |||||
| LIVE SPICE | |||||
| The girls are hitting the stage of
Saturday Night Live tomorrow for their first
major live performance. The girls have been in New York rehersing all week for their appearace which will be watched by millions of Americans this weekend. The girls will sing Wannabe & Say You'll Be There and the show will be hosted by Rob Lowe. In common with many performers on the cult show, the girls will be accompanied by the house band "The Saturday Night Live Band". "It is their first live performance with a band and it sounded brilliant," said a Spice Girls spokesman who has seen the rehersals today. Britain isn't going to be left out though - the girls will be backed by a very live 32 piece orchsestra when they perform at the Princes Trust Royal Gala at Manchester Opera House on May 9 |
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| GIRL POWER BOOK LAUNCH | |||||
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| April 3, 1997 | |||||
| SPICE HITS 10, 000, 000 | |||||
| The girls are expected to sell
their 10, 000,000th copy of "Spice" in
the next week or so. The girls are apparently
selling a staggering 400, 000 copies of Spice
every week and have already passed the 9, 700,
000 mark. It means that the fiesty five have easily become Britains fastest selling band, and are each set to become multi-millionaires by the early summer. A Virgin Records spokesman in London told PA News tonight: "They are the biggest pop phenomenon of this decade, if not the last 20 years." "They are the biggest group since the Beatles and their success has been meteoric." |
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