‘Idol’ Creator Busy With Next Big Music Idea

Before ‘Idol’, it was the manufactured 1990s group, The Spice Girls, with their gutsy girl-power message and catchy dance tunes, with which Simon Fuller really made his name. “My ideas always reflect the time that we live in and are very much a barometer of where the planet is,” Fuller told Reuters. “The Spice Girls very much reflected a particular time, and ‘Idol’ reflects another.”