Sporty Spice Girl ready to take "final bow"
Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm is glad she overcame her reluctance and agreed to a reunion of the hit group, according to The Associated Press.
Nearly a decade after the five-member group became four -- when Geri Halliwell left Chisholm, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham -- and seven years since the release of their third and supposedly final album, the Spice Girls are back with a greatest hits album and a world reunion tour.
But Chisholm, a.k.a. Sporty Spice or Mel C., said it was not the beginning of a new chapter, but rather "our final bow" to celebrate a career that has seen the group sell more than 55 million albums and rack up 10 No. 1 singles around the world.
"We all hoped (the reunion) would be successful, but we're all quite overwhelmed by the actual response," Chisholm told Reuters in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where the group is rehearsing for the tour, which starts in Vancouver on December 2 and is scheduled to play 18 cities in nine countries.
"That has just made us more determined to make the show the best show any British pop band has ever put on," she said.
But Chisholm admits she was reluctant to be part of the reunion, which she said the group began talking about after they were asked to perform at one of the 2005 Live 8 concerts to fight global poverty.
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