Spice Girls announce Spiceworld 25 album with new ‘Spice Up Your Life’ video
"Spice Up Your Life!"
The Spice Girls are releasing new versions of their iconic album, Spiceworld, to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
What’s even better is we’re getting new and expanded versions of the iconic album, as well as the hits we already know and love.
To celebrate the news, a new version of the band’s music video for ‘Spice Up Your Life’ has been released made from unseen footage from the original video shoot.
Spiceworld 25 will see classic tracks right alongside some of the band’s favourite bonus tracks and B-Sides, as well as previously unreleased live recordings from the Virgin Records archive.
The band says, “The Spiceworld era was such a fun time for us; we’d just had a number one album with Spice, we were travelling all over the world and meeting our amazing fans, we released our second album AND we had our very own movie! Who would’ve thought it? It’s crazy to think that 25 years have passed.”
Spiceworld was first released in November 1997 and spent three weeks in the number one spot on the Official Charts UK album chart and 48 weeks in the Top 40.
It sold 192,000 copies in the UK in its first week before passing a million sales seven weeks later. The album also reached number 1 in eleven other territories and has since sold more than 14 million copies worldwide.
The album has been certified five times platinum in the UK and four times in the US.
The album will be available as Digital Deluxe Edition, 2CD + Hardback Book, 2LP Deluxe Edition, Double Cassette, Picture Disc, and Clear Vinyl.
Across the formats, highlights include fan favourite ‘Step To Me’, originally the soundtrack to a 1997 soft drinks campaign where fans were required to collect twenty pink ring pull tabs from cans in return for a four track ‘not in the shops’ CD single.
The digital and 2CD formats will also include the previously unheard original demo recording.
The albums will also be pleasing news for fans who have long wanted live recordings from the band’s 1998 European and North America tour as four previously unreleased live recordings are included on both the 2LP set and the 2 Cassette tape set, all captured at different venues.
Together with some timeless remixes, a search of the archives revealed a previously unreleased version of ‘Viva Forever’ – the ‘John Themis Ambient Mix’ is named after the much in demand Australian-born guitarist who later co-wrote Emma Bunton’s April 2001 solo No. 1 ‘What Took You So Long’.
The digital, CD, and cassette formats also feature the new ‘Spice Girls Party Mix’, which is described as “a near-fifteen minute fiesta of brilliant Pop music,” collecting the band’s very best tracks in one.
Spiceworld 25 will be available from 4 November.