It was probably the last shocking moment at the Brits really, after the Jarvis incident and the John Prescott Chumbawamba thing [Prescott received a cold shower at the 1998 awards]. Our cute printable bookmarks make a great little gift that can be given to your pupils to recognise all the hard work they put into their reading exercises! It’s through the eyes of a parent talking about how the child is growing and wondering where the child will be in the future.

Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. One with the characters of the Spice Girls, the too-cool-to-care attitude of Sugbabes, exceptionally bonkers production of Girls Aloud, or the catchy, radio-friendly anthems of Little Mix. It tells the ‘story’ of British pop music from 96-06 starting with the explosion of the spice girls in 1996. So obsessed that he’d only ever play that album and make his mum and sister listen to it during long car journeys.Friendship never ends” sang the Beatles of the late 90s, and Emma Bunton shares stories of their domestic situation: “Mel B used to cook corned beef and rice, which was a step up from my beans on toast. And just as with his Butterflies in My Stomach, Bloch’s witty art—a wonderful mix of whimsical line drawings and photography—will delight, charm, and inspire. And that's interesting because most other people would have (a) been told they had to do it or (b) would have jumped at the chance and not thought about the finances. And that machine was so big and so powerful that you then did have to sort of take what was going on. It tells you how the sausage is made in gruesome detail while also pointing out that it only gets made because it tastes so good (making a case that Some Girls is the definitive record of the era and entirely justifying it getting a chapter to itself).

Many of them were very young when they joined the bands - and you get to see an array of different ways that fame - or being in a band can mess your life up. The book works best when it focuses on one band per chapter or at the most a couple of bands, some chapters are in my opinion too crowded, such as the Boyzone to Busted chapter which features A1, 911, Westlife, Busted, Triple 8, Busted, Boyzone, McFly and more and as a result of this at times you lose track of which band is being discussed. Cragg’s been apop fanatic for as long as he could turn the radio on, and his sheer enthusiasm for the genre is one usually deployed by boring bloke journos to examine the thrusts of glam rock in the ​ ’70s or the socio-political beginnings of Britpop. To the point where the label came in and were like, “You fucking British guys are a bunch of twats and you can fuck off.It was a more innocent time, before the dawn of the internet - radio, Top of the Pops and magazines like Smash Hits were the main ways teenagers learned about their favourite bands.

This can be a good story to bring into your classroom to help teach students to always keep their heads held high. If you liked our quote suggestions for reach for the stars quotes then why not take a look at dream big quotes, or fly high quotes. Simon Jones (former publicist for the TV shows SM:TV and CD:UK) They definitely had fist-fights down at CD:UK. S Club 7 and the Sugababes tell us about their grueling schedule, which didn't stop them partying and turning up to Saturday morning TV shows still drunk from the night before.

It is to Michael Cragg’s great credit that his new book, a thoroughgoing oral history, focuses on a period until now almost entirely shunned by critics: British millennial bubblegum.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.Although you will never touch them, if you reach hard enough, you will find that you get a little stardust on you in the process. Sean We had just come back to do a new album [Kingsize] and I was really struggling with anxiety, feeling overwhelmed. The hours are brutal and schedules are like no others,” says Myleene Klass, who adds that Hear’Say were “constantly heckled and criticised for our weight and our looks”. The book gives a huge amount of behind-the-scenes information on anything from a band's living situations to the goings-on behind big awards ceremonies.