Spice Girls - Goodbye

What this video is

Released on 24 November 1998 by Virgin Records, 'Goodbye' arrived at a pivotal and fragile moment in British pop history — the Spice Girls' first release as a quartet following the high-profile departure of Geri Halliwell in May 1998. The departure had been one of the biggest entertainment news stories of the year globally. The song became the group's third consecutive UK Christmas number one, making them the first…

Why it matters

A landmark of late-1990s British pop visual culture, 'Goodbye' represents the genre's capacity for emotional weight and cinematic ambition within the commercial music video form. It documents the precise inflection point at which the Spice Girls transitioned from maximalist Britpop euphoria to…

The director

Howard Douglas Greenhalgh (born 19 February 1963, Halifax, West Yorkshire) is a British director of music videos and advertising. He studied at the Royal College of Art. He came to prominence in the early 1990s directing Snap!'s 'Rhythm is a Dancer' and…