SCHIZOPHONIC INFO !!!!

Everyone was saying I was bonkers, but I had to go get my feet back on the ground." -- Geri Halliwell

The wait is over. GERI HALLIWELL finally releases her highly anticipated debut solo album "Schizophonic" June 15th.

Camp, quirky, fun, heartfelt and shamelessly, gloriously pop-tastic, the album features Geri at her very best in a collection of classic pop tracks that will move not only your feet but also your heart.

Stand out tracks include her stunning debut solo single "Look At Me;" "Mi Chico Latino," a Spanish-flavored dance anthem; "Walk Away," a timeless ballad featuring a sixty piece orchestra; the uplifting, inspirational "Lift Me Up;" and "Bag It Up," a funky Seventies inspired disco stomper.

In May 1998, a 25-year-old woman walked out of her job, and it made world news. "I was standing on this mountaintop and I jumped, not knowing where I was going to fall," says Geri of her abrupt departure from the SPICE GIRLS. "Everyone was saying I was bonkers, but I had to go get my feet back on the ground."

Originally, Geri had decided on September 1998 as her time to leave the Spice Girls -- and had told the other girls of her decision -- since she felt she had already achieved all she could as a member of the group. But in May 1998, Geri wanted to do an interview with ITN about her breast cancer scare and, when the Spice Girls' schedule would not permit it, she began to question her priorities. Within hours the decision had been made.

From nowhere to the pop phenomenon of the Nineties in the space of one record, the Spice Girls had been on an extraordinary girl-powered journey. They had hits around the world. They sold enormous numbers of records. They made a movie. They met PRINCE CHARLES and PRESIDENT MANDELA. They met all of their pop heroes, then became more famous than most of them. And it all happened so fast that there was scarcely time in their schedule to sleep, let alone take in what had happened to them.

For Geri Halliwell, it was time to go, to find out who she was when she wasn't Ginger Spice. "There was nothing contrived about the Spice Girls and Ginger is a part of me, but I'd been wearing platforms since I was 18 and it was natural to grow out of it. I wasn't wearing those kind of clothes off-stage. My makeup was getting less and less. When I left, I needed to ship the lot away and say, 'Actually I'm an egg at the moment. I'm in incubation!'"

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