Live at Wembley Stadium (Spice Girls video)

Live at Wembley Stadium
Video by
Spice Girls
Released9 November 1998 (1998-11-09)
Recorded20 September 1998
VenueWembley Stadium, London
GenrePop
Length120 minutes
LabelVirgin
Spice Girls video chronology
Girl Power! Live in Istanbul
(1997) 		Live at Wembley Stadium
(1998) 		Spice Girls in America: A Tour Story
(1999)

Spice Girls Live at Wembley Stadium is the third video album by English girl group the Spice Girls. It was released on VHS on 9 November 1998 by Virgin Records,[1] and was filmed at Wembley Stadium in London on 20 September 1998 during the Spiceworld Tour. The concert was first broadcast live in a pay-per-view special on Sky Box Office, and although the television broadcast was completely live, studio vocals were dubbed into several songs for the video version of the performance. It received a DVD release in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2008.[2]

The show was recorded after Geri Halliwell left the band. Halliwell later revealed in the 2007 documentary film Giving You Everything that she watched the two-hour Sky One broadcast from her home in the United Kingdom after only quitting the band four months prior and said "it was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do" and that it was "so painful", to which Mel B jokingly replied, "That's her own fault".

Set list

Act One

  1. "Spiceworld Intro" (contains samples from "Wannabe", "Say You'll Be There", "2 Become 1" and "Mama")
  2. "If U Can't Dance"
  3. "Who Do You Think You Are" (contains samples of "Supermodel (You Better Work)")

Act Two

  1. "Something Kinda Funny"
  2. "Do It"
  3. "Too Much"

Act Three

  1. "Stop"
  2. "Where Did Our Love Go?" (Emma Bunton solo performance)

Act Four

  1. "Love Thing"

Act Five

  1. "The Lady Is a Vamp"
  2. "Say You'll Be There"
  3. Interlude (with samples from Batman Forever (1995) for introduction)
  4. "Naked"

Act Six

  1. "2 Become 1"

Act Seven

  1. "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (Mel B and Melanie C duet)
  2. "Wannabe"
  3. "Spice Up Your Life"
  4. "Mama"

Act Eight

  1. "Viva Forever" (contains samples from the motion picture Blade Runner and features additional vocals from Chickenshed)

Encore

  1. "Never Give Up on the Good Times"
  2. "We Are Family"

Personnel

Vocals

Band

  • Simon Ellis – musical direction, keyboards
  • Andy Gangadeen – drums
  • Paul Gendler – guitars
  • Fergus Gerrand – percussion
  • Steve Lewinson – bass guitar
  • Michael Martin – keyboards

Dancers

Charts

Chart performance for Live at Wembley Stadium
Chart (1998) Peak
position
UK Music Videos (OCC)[3] 6
US Top Music Videos (Billboard)[4] 4

Certifications

Certifications for Live at Wembley Stadium
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[5] Platinum 50,000*
United States (RIAA)[6] Platinum 100,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ "Spice Girls: The Whole Concert on Video for the First Time – Available 9th November 1998". Music Week. 17 October 1998. p. 27. ISSN 0265-1548.
  2. ^ "Live At Wembley Stadium [2008]". Amazon. United Kingdom. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Official Music Video Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Spice Girls Chart History (Music Video Sales)". Billboard. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  5. ^ "British video certifications – Spice Girls – Live at Wembley Stadium". British Phonographic Industry. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  6. ^ "American video certifications – Spice Girls – Live at Wembley". Recording Industry Association of America. 19 May 1999. Retrieved 26 July 2016.