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Fact #172977

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Short story:

The Spice Girls play their first-ever live show at the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, Eurasia. The group had achieved global success without ever playing a live show.

Full article:

Mel C (Spice Girls) : We were successful at this point but we had never done a live show. There was so much pressure on us, the production was absolutely huge and it was petrifying. That was probably one of the most terrifying nights of my life. Everybody was waiting for it and everyone was waiting for us to fail.

I think people expected us not to be able to sing live. I think people expected not a lot of the show to be live. It was almost an out of body experience. Nothing can prepare you for that amount of adrenaline.BBC-tv
(Source : BBC-tv documentary, Hits, Hype And Hustle, 2018)