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Amazon.co.uk Review
Forever Spice presents a glamorous photographic account of theSpice Girls' tumultuous 1998 World Tour. Dean Freeman's stunning work mixes black and white and colour full page photographs to reveal a unique portrait of the girls at the height of their global success. The photos are fantastic; funny, affectionate, eminently flattering, capturing the spiciness of five (then four) twenty-something, popstar millionairesses with the world at their fingertips. Geri appears only in the first five pages of the book, her departure signified by the photo of the mike box with hers poignantly missing. We see the girls rehearsing, preparing backstage, shopping, hugging (lots of hugging) partying and having a laugh in the boisterous way we have come to expect. The then-boyfriends (now husbands) also feature highly with almost as many pictures of David Beckham as Baby Spice--leaving no doubt as to the prettier of the two.

Words from the girls are reserved for the end of the book with soundbites on everything from Geri's departure and the sacking of their manager, to keeping fit, homesickness, music and inevitably, marriage and babies. Unfortunately written quotes from the Spice Girls only serve to highlight a kind of fame-induced arrested development with some very non-rock and roll statements: Victoria on motherhood: "The washing you get through if you've got a sickly baby is incredible--you use up 10 outfits a day and you're washing all the time." Or Emma on South Africa: "We were in South Africa and we took over the whole place and started playing all the bongos. And I think we ate crocodile there as well. It tasted like chicken."

But snipes aside--much of this girlie chat is the essence of the Spice Girls' appeal. The photographs show them playing the role of diva to stunning effect, living out every girls' pop star dream whilst the text shows a desire to prove they are as ordinary as anyone else. Ginger's presence is missed here; the showiest and most exuberant Spice, she seemed most aware of exactly how incredible it was that five such ordinary girls had created such a phenomenally successful girl super-power--and enjoyed the fame all the more. But despite this and the adult encroachment of boyfriends and babies on the girl power scene, there is enough life in Posh, Scary, Sport and Baby to indicate their success will be long lived and the title of Forever Spice may well prove true. Millions of fans certainly hope so. --Rachel O'Connor

Book Description
A hugely successful world tour, an internationally successful movie and a Christmas number one have all maintained the intense interest of a massive worldwide public who have bought 37 million Spice Girls albums in the past four years. FOREVER SPICE goes behind the scenes to explore life as a Spice Girl - their passage from a band produced by Simon Fuller, through their feelings and responses to the departure of Geri Halliwell, childbirth, marriage and their personal aspirations for the future.

This beautifully illustrated book contains a highly personal portrayal of each of their stories, combined with a simple and elegant design, led by Dean Freeman's photographs. The period covered by the book commences with the Spice Girls' trip to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela, encompasses the whole of their world tour and is brought up to date with images also shot exclusively for this book. Capturing poignant backstage moments that reveal the vulnerability of the artists and the making and breaking of relationships throughout this time the photographs are accompanied by text from frank and exclusive interviews with each member of the group.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Nice "book", 20 Jan 2000 By  emosquera@correo.datanet.es (Spain) - See all my reviews It has lots of great and significative pictures. It's so sad to read Mel B speaking about Jim - she really loved him. There are just a few pages with text, so it's more like a photo album than like a book.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Forever Spice Girls, 4 Feb 2002 By  "alizam" - See all my reviews I guess this is a bit like a full-picture page... but yet it might suprises you at the back... lines by the girls... how they feel about geri's leaving the group, the tour, the family and all exclusive information. I know this book is quite ages to comment... but as the spice girls fans i think this is the great momento for you lots!!!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Not so good spice....., 24 Jan 2000 By A Customer Apart from the photos and quotes of the girls, there is way too many photos of Victoria and Beckham kissing(urgh!)I think it wasn't necessary to print that many....I didn't thought it was that good to be honest...sorry  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 11 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews The Spice Girls know how to write a fantastic book! After reading this book, I thought these girls know how to use their talent! We have been curious about thir lives and emotions for 4 years and now they tell how they managed to... Read more Published on 26 Jan 2001 Fantastic! A Great read for anyone, fan or not! I got this book and it brilliant! It is great to see what the girls relaly think and not what the tabliods are saying. Read more Published on 5 Aug 2000 Fantastic book I simply find a brilliant book and I recommend it to all the fans of the spice it is a book with some pictures of great quality and to the fans (AND non fans) they liked it a lot Published on 10 April 2000 by spice@musicaole.com FOREVER WITH SPICE! I think this book is great it has quite a lot of photos of posh becks kissing! And the bio's are great and the price frm Amazon is great barg too! The girls rule! Published on 10 Mar 2000 by ccdeare@hotmail.com Great for a fan, but might be disappointing to others i'm a fan of both the Spice Girls and Geri Halliwell. I love this book very much because it has a lot of great pictures including a lot of behind-the-scenes. Read more Published on 22 Jan 2000 by spicytimothy@excite.com aesthetically pleasing but weak text wise. While the spice girls yet again prove that packaging is important the actual words on the page do not translate so well. Read more Published on 25 Nov 1999 </