#British

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Video thumbnail — Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There (Official Music Video)
Celebrities 1994–2000 peak

Spice Girls

"Wannabe," Girl Power, and five color-coded personas — Baby, Scary, Sporty, Ginger, and Posh — that turned a British pop group into a global phenomenon. Their faces sold everything from lunchboxes to soft drinks, and their debut became the best-selling album ever by a female group.

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Music 1997–1998

Chumbawamba — Tubthumping

"I get knocked down, but I get up again — you're never gonna keep me down." The 1997 pub-and-stadium singalong that became an inescapable global anthem — sung by a band most fans never realized was a veteran British anarchist collective.

Video thumbnail — Spice Girls - Wannabe (Official Music Video)
Music 1996–1997

Spice Girls — Wannabe

"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends" — the debut single that launched the Spice Girls, "Girl Power," and the immortal nonsense of "zig-a-zig-ah." Filmed in one continuous take storming a posh London hotel, it became the best-selling single by a girl group in history.