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Last music video shown on Viva

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It was indeed "Viva Forever" by Spice Girls.

Channel 5's launch video

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A reworked cover of Manfred Mann's "5-4-3-2-1" by the Spice Girls titled "1-2-3-4-5".

The only Beatle and the only Spice Girl to have never had a solo number-one hit in the United Kingdom

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It's true. Ringo Starr's biggest solo hit (excluding those in which he was part of a charity supergroup) was "Back Off Boogaloo", which peaked at number two in 1972. While Victoria Beckham's biggest solo hit was "Out of Your Mind" (as she was the featured artist since it was a collaboration with British garage duo True Steppers and former Another Level member Dane Bowers"), which peaked at number two in 2000 and the song that denied it at the top? "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" by Italian music producer Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

Here's a rare Pepsi ad featuring the Spice Girls

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This was a 1997 Portuguese ad for the British girl group's sponsorship with the soft drink that occured during the year and it was during the time when Pepsi underwent a major overhaul with their Generation Next branding.