from record producer Mark "Spike" Stent, and another from American DJ David Morales, an instrumental version of the song, and the B-side "Spice Invaders". The second version, released in a digipak, contained three tracks: the Stent radio mix, a club mix by David Morales, and a remix by house production team Murk. In the United States, Virgin Records America sent the song to radios on 1 October and the single to record stores on 21 October. The American edition, released in both cassette and CD maxi single format, featured the same track listing as the first UK version. On 12–13 October 1997, the group performed songs from Spiceworld including "Spice Up Your Life" in a two-night concert in Turkey, as part of a sponsorship deal organized by Pepsi. Following the concerts, the Spice Girls made a couple of weeks of promotion in Singapore, Thailand, India, Hong Kong and Japan, and attended the Bambi Awards in Germany. In November, they appeared at a charity event in South Africa, taped a special concert for Antena 3 in Spain, and did promotion in Italy, France, the Netherlands, and the UK. In December they traveled to Brazil for a press conference, and then to the US to made televised appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, while UPN released a one-hour special dedicated to the group titled Too Much Is Never Enough. During January 1998, while promoting the album and the release of their movie Spice World, the group appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and The Oprah Winfrey Show, and were featured on the cover of Vogue magazine. Critical reception "Spice Up Your Life" received mixed reviews from music critics, with the Latin-inspired production garnering divisive opinions. Andy Gill of The Independent called it a "pseudo-salsa [...] pop pastiche", while the staff of the Miami Herald considered it "a condescending dud". In a similar review, David Browne of Entertainment Weekly described it as a "ha-cha-cha slice of tropical-boat-cruise frivolity". George Varga of The San Diego Union-Tribune believed that the song "does for Latin music what Hanson has done for death metal". Conversely, Newsdays Scott Schinder was pleased with the track, referring to it as a "silly but irresistible uplift". The Sun-Sentinels Sean Picolli described it as a "salsa-lite hootenanny". The staff of Smash Hits gave it a positive review, calling it a "maraca-shaking