“It’s a great song and it had a great kitsch value to it,” says Thompson now. The finale of the song featured Glitter in full gold costume, emerging from behind the band to lap up the applause.
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One of the tunes chosen for the movie was the star’s hit ‘I’m the Leader of the Gang (I Am!)’, which the girls sing on an amphitheatre-style stage during a concert in Italy, surrounded by backing dancers in assless purple chaps. he was Prime Minister and he felt he couldn’t do it.” “We had this sequence where it started off outside Number 10 and Tony Blair came out very seriously in front of the press corps and said something like, “I’ve given it a lot of thought and I’ve decided my favourite Spice Girl is…” And that was going to be the start of the movie. “We almost got Tony Blair,” says Thompson. With a minimal plot based around preparations for the group’s biggest live gig at London’s Albert Hall, the goal was to release the film the following Christmas – a tight production schedule – and feature a series of songs performed by the band as well as a host of celebrity cameos. Is Biff In Back To The Future 2 Actually Donald Trump? 10 90s Movie Stars Who Now Look Totally Different “Gary Glitter seemed to be perfect fit for all that.” “The whole idea was the movie would be quite post-modern and have lots of pop cultural references and have it be clear the girls were not taking themselves too seriously,” remembers producer Barnaby Thompson, thinking back to a lunch he had with Simon Fuller on 1 November 1996 to talk about a possible Spice Girls movie. Here, we talk to the movie’s producer Barnaby Thompson and its editor Andrea MacArthur about what really happened behind-the-scenes. You can only find it as a dodgy bootleg on YouTube, because paedophile Gary Glitter’s appearance in 1997′s ‘Spice World’ was cut before the film was released.
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