The rise and fall of this manufactured female vocal group offered a damning indictment of the state of the UK pop market at the start of the new millennium. Michelle Claire Barber (b. 5 January 1979, Blackpool, Lancashire, England), Linsay Sarah Martin (b. 2 April 1981, Manchester, England), Anika Bostelaar (b. 5 June 1981, Etten-Leur, Netherlands), Nicola Jane Stuart (b. 4 July 1979, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England), and Jodi Albert (b. 22 July 1983, Chingford, London, England) were recruited by ex-Spice Girls manager and S Club 7 creator Simon Fuller through an advertiseme...