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By Mark Savage
It came out of nowhere. It changed the course of pop music. It was Wannabe - the scrappily brilliant debut single by The Spice Girls.
The record label had been worried. Wannabe was too weird, too anarchic. They hated the video. BBC Radio 1 was refusing to play it. Breakfast show DJ Chris Evans told the band to go back to kids TV.
But the girls knew better. It s not negotiable as far as we re concerned, they insisted. Wannabe is our first single.
And if they decided they wanted to do something, then that s what was going to happen, Wannabe s co-writer Richard Biff Stannard told the BBC.
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