matt rowe - Can't Stop The Pop

05 FEB

Ant & Dec – When I Fall In Love

Despite Ant & Dec’s music career often being treated as a novelty footnote in their career, ‘When I Fall In Love’ is a genuinely great track.

11 DEC

The Spice Girls being Christmas #1 in 1996 was a given, but there’s a reason why ‘2 Become 1’ is their biggest-selling, best-known ballad.

09 OCT

The lead single from Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s second album found her trying to make sense of an increasingly ‘Mixed Up World’.

27 JUN

In just under three minutes, the Spice Girls changed the face of pop music forever with their debut single.

28 FEB

‘Mama’ is rarely cited as a top Spice Girls track, but that doesn’t stop it being a genuinely lovely (and well-timed) tribute.

10 JAN

‘I Won’t Change You’ is a routinely overlooked and disregarded single from Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s second album. But it’s not that bad…is it?

14 DEC

The Spice Girls’ ‘Goodbye’ was a tribute not just to the end of a friendship, but the end of the group as we knew it.

02 NOV

Sophie Ellis-Bextor took her love of music one step further than most by writing a whole song dedicated to it.

07 OCT

‘Spice Up Your Life’ saw the Spice Girls launch their second album with another signature hit, while this time stamping their trademark all over it.

15 JUL

Amid the furore of Geri Halliwell’s sudden departure from the Spice Girls came their serendipitously beautiful swansong, ‘Viva Forever’.