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Emma Bunton News

TABLOID HELL - DECEMBER 4 2001

TABLOID HELL - DECEMBER 4 2001

Plus - Madonna's hat, Britney's handcuffs and an Appleton sisters update...

  • Dec 4, 2001

BABY IT'S YOU

Her official website will also host a webchat beforehand...

  • Nov 28, 2001

TABLOID HELL - NOVEMBER 1 2001

Plus - Adams is inconsolable, Dane Bowers is back with buxom Jordan and Kylie has lunch. At lunchtime...

  • Nov 1, 2001

SPICY BATTLE!

So will the former bandmates in the Spice Girls sing live? Erm, a pig has just flown over the NME.COM office...

  • Sep 7, 2001

TABLOID HELL - JULY 25 2001

Plus - Geri likes salad shock, Low-cut Britney steps out and Virgin gets rid of the contents of Chris Evans's sacks...

  • Jul 25, 2001

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Emma Bunton YouTube Videos

Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long? (Full Video)

Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long? (Full Video) (04:00)

Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long? (Full Video)

Emma Bunton - Maybe (Full Video)

Emma Bunton - Maybe (Full Video) (03:48)

Emma Bunton - Maybe (Full Video)

Emma Bunton - Free Me (Full Video)

Emma Bunton - Free Me (Full Video) (04:33)

Emma Bunton - Free Me (Full Video)

Emma Bunton - We're not gonna sleep tonight

Emma Bunton - We're not gonna sleep tonight (03:12)

Emma Bunton - We're not gonna sleep tonight From the excelent A girl like me

Emma Bunton - Something So Beautiful

Emma Bunton - Something So Beautiful (03:42)

Music video for Emma Bunton - Something So Beautiful

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Emma Bunton Reviews

Bunton, Emma  :  We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight

Bunton, Emma : We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight

She's back on the cheesy dancefloor of clubland, scrapping it out in a battle of the handbags...

  • Dec 14, 2001

Emma Bunton : A Girl Like Me

Ewok Spice releases solo debut that's sweet and summery and playful and blah blah yawn...

  • Apr 18, 2001

Emma Bunton : What Took You So Long?

Hang out the bunting and, indeed, hang out with Bunton...

  • Mar 29, 2001

Emma Bunton / Dannii Minogue: London Astoria G.A.Y.

Baby unveils her new album - and it's great!

  • Mar 26, 2001

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Emma Bunton Biography

b. Emma Lee Bunton, 21 January 1976, Finchley, Barnet, London, England. Bunton aka Baby Spice became the third member of the Spice Girls to enjoy a UK solo number 1 hit when "What Took You So Long?' topped the charts in April 2001. The single appeared after the Spice Girls had been put on indefinite hold following the relative failure of their third album, 2000"s Forever. Bunton had already enjoyed a UK Top 5 hit when, in late 1999, she collaborated with dance pop act Tin Tin Out on a bland cover version of Edie Brickell's "What I Am'. The light frothy pop of Bunton's first solo single was echoed in her debut album for Virgin Records, A Girl Like Me. Released at the start of 2002, the album eschewed the urban experimentation of the Spice Girls" Forever in favour of easy listening pop designed to appeal to the broadest possible demographic. Despite the album reaching the UK Top 5 the relative failure of the follow-up singles prompted Virgin Records not to renew Bunton's recording contract.

Undeterred, the singer landed a new contract with Polydor Records and set about reinventing herself for a second assault on the UK charts. Ditching the fresh-faced girl next-door image of her Spice Girls day, looks that had led to her being dubbed Baby Spice, Bunton vamped up and stripped down in a determined effort to promote her "new-found" sexuality. She also ditched her rather unwieldy surname and announced that she was now simply Emma. The excellent singles "Free Me" and "Maybe" did well in the charts and impressed many critics, with the singer's grasp of how to perform mature adult pop readily apparent. The attendant Free Me (2004) did not quite live up to the quality of the singles but, to the surprise of many, served notice that Bunton, although not the strongest voice, was shaping up to be the Spice Girl with the most viable solo career.

Bunton enjoyed notable radio play on US dance stations in 2005 but was unable to transfer this success to the mainstream charts. She resumed her career in the UK with a charity cover version of Petula Clark's "Downtown", which reached the UK Top 3 in November 2006. The singer's third album, Life In Mono, was released under her full title the following month.

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Emma Bunton Discography

Emma Bunton albums.

  • A Girl Like Me - 2002 (Virgin)
  • Free Me - 2004 (Polydor)
  • Life In Mono - 2006 (Universal)

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