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NKOTB is back!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403...l795qXiqTCs0NUE
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OSTON - They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block. The Boston boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early 1990s, has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour. The reunion comes 20 years after the release of the group's multi-platinum album, "Hanging Tough."
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The group released a new photo Wednesday and reportedly will appear on the Today show Friday morning — the same time an unmarked countdown clock on http://www.nkotb.com ends.
"The fan response to this has been incredible," band member Donnie Wahlberg told the Boston Herald.
Wahlberg said he was convinced to get back together with his former bandmates — Joey McIntyre, brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood — when they decided to record new music. Wahlberg said he wrote 80 percent of the new material with McIntyre and Jordan Knight.
"I had no interest going out on a nostalgia tour and singing the same material," said Wahlberg, 38.
But he added, "We absolutely will do the old songs for sure."
Producer Maurice Starr formed the group in Boston in the 1980s, hoping to recreate the success he had with another teen group from the city, New Edition.
At the height of their popularity, New Kids sold out world tours, marketed millions of dollars in merchandise and spawned a Saturday morning cartoon.
The group disbanded in 1994. Wahlberg has acted on television and in movies, while Jordan Knight, McIntyre and Wood released solo albums. Jonathan Knight became a real estate developer. |
I can't wait until pre-sale tour tickets hit - this idea is nothing short of brilliant.
NKOTB 4 lyfe. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
Did u see their press pic?
HOTNESS!:tongue3 |
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| montana |
oh oh o-o-oh oh oh ohoh
oh oh o-o-oh the right stuff! |
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| Frenchie |
| Known about this for a while. SO EXCITED! I hope they've incorporated their walkers into the dance steps! |
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| iammesol |
| They're the old kids on the block now. :o |
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| montana |
donnie should get marky mark out of retirement too,
DONNIE D's on the back up
drug free so put the crack up
genius i tell you genius |
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| eRRaTiK |
wait a minute so this is the second comeback?
New Kids on The Block - early 90's
NKOTB - late 90's
dammit iammesol stole my line. bastard.
Maybe they can do a tour with Vanilla Ice who was in Sydney for NYE. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| I love how the article calls them a band....they are NOT a band. |
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| Frenchie |
| quote: | Originally posted by eRRaTiK
wait a minute so this is the second comeback?
New Kids on The Block - early 90's
NKOTB - late 90's
dammit iammesol stole my line. bastard.
Maybe they can do a tour with Vanilla Ice who was in Sydney for NYE. |
He's too cold for the right stuff. |
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| montana |
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenchie
He's too cold for the right stuff. |
:haha: :haha: :haha: |
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| tubularbills |
they were the biggest sellouts of the 90s. them and MC Hammer. ugh. i hated new kids. and always will.
ps, i remember everyone had a New Kids metal lunchbox in like 1st grade. it was insane |
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