"You have been spiced!" shouted Mel B as the original line-up of the Spice Girls marched off stage, hand in hand, for the first time in nine years.
The five godmothers of girl power had just announced one of the worst-kept pop secrets of recent years - they were reforming for a world tour.
It was, all told, a peculiarly British event.
If Destiny's Child, or the Jacksons, had been running the show there would have been fireworks, proclamations of globe-straddling greatness and, in all likelihood, a giant statue floating up the Thames.
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The five godmothers of girl power had just announced one of the worst-kept pop secrets of recent years - they were reforming for a world tour.
It was, all told, a peculiarly British event.
If Destiny's Child, or the Jacksons, had been running the show there would have been fireworks, proclamations of globe-straddling greatness and, in all likelihood, a giant statue floating up the Thames.
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