You’ve purchased the data, live performance tickets and merch, seen the movie. Now you’ll be able to boost your life with commemorative Spice Ladies postage stamps, 15 in whole.
The U.Ok.’s Royal Mail will situation the stamps later this month as a small manner of celebrating the Woman Energy pack’s thirtieth anniversary.
All informed, the mail service’s bounty consists of stamp units, posters, postcards and collectables, with every bit accessible from Jan. 11. The highest prize is the “Spice Ladies Gold Stamps Set,” introduced as a limited-edition (1,000 units) that includes the problem’s stamps layered in 24-carat gold, and priced at £149.99 ($190).
For the skint amongst us following the Christmas break, 30p (38c) will purchase a Spice Ladies “First Day” envelope.
The marketing campaign, which celebrates the “U.Ok.’s biggest-ever lady group,” reads an announcement, marks the primary time the Royal Mail has devoted a complete stamp situation to a feminine pop group.
The ten foremost stamps embody pictures from the Brit Awards in 1997, that includes Ginger Spice in her iconic Union Jack costume, and their efficiency on the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Summer season Olympic Video games.
An extra 5 stamps can be found on a miniature sheet, comprising particular person snaps from the photoshoot for the 1998 characteristic movie, Spice World.
The lineup of Child (Emma Bunton), Posh (Victoria Beckham), Ginger (Geri Halliwell-Horner), Sporty (Melanie Chisholm) and Scary Spice (Melanie Brown) assembled in 1994.
Two years later, with Simon Cowell on board as supervisor, the lady group dropped “Wannabe,” a debut that will set the tone for a brand new period of British pop.
“Wannabe” was the primary of the Spice Ladies’ 9 No. 1 songs within the U.Ok., and, within the U.S., the catchy observe logged 4 weeks on the summit of the Billboard Scorching 100 in early 1997. It’s nonetheless going robust; “Wannabe” handed one billion streams on Spotify over the current vacation interval.
The Spice Ladies reunited in 2022 to have fun Geri’s fiftieth birthday, an occasion that doubled-up because the twenty fifth anniversary of their sophomore album Spiceworld, launched again in 1997. There’s no discuss, nevertheless, on the basic lineup hitting the studio or the highway anytime quickly.
Beforehand, the Royal Mail has issued stamps celebrating the careers of The Beatles (in 2007), Pink Floyd (2016), Queen (2020), Paul McCartney (2021), The Rolling Stones (2022) and Iron Maiden (2023).
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