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BOSTON — 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."
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.
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{"commentId":1651437,"authorDomain":"greglujan"}
well, with the new material, maybe they've got the right stuff.
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#1 - Thu Apr 3, 2008 12:02 PM EDT{"commentId":1655071,"authorDomain":"jessica1973"}
They were on the Today Show and there were women my age and lots of teenage girls out there. They played a clip of their somg "Summertime" and it sounds pretty good. I felt as giddy as I did when I was a teenager watching them. I may end buying their CD afterall.
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{"commentId":1651453,"authorDomain":"vincitveritas"}
Huh. Didn't see that coming.
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#2 - Thu Apr 3, 2008 12:05 PM EDT{"commentId":1651742,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}
If the Backstreet Boys do this in 20 years I will have an aneurysm.
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- 5 votes
#3 - Thu Apr 3, 2008 1:20 PM EDT{"commentId":1652001,"authorDomain":"Emily"}
maybe if they go Step by Step they'll Quit Playing Games (With Your Heart)
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":1652235,"authorDomain":"jessica1973"}
Isn't Quit Playing Games an N'Sync song?
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{"commentId":1652237,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}
sorry gotta go, I suddenly have a date with an ice-pick to destroy my ear drums.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1652277,"authorDomain":"Emily"}
Jess,
Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) - Backstreet Boys
Tearin' Up My Heart - N'Sync
...{clears throat, looks away}... so I hear...from a friend...that may or may not have been to a BSB concert when s/he was younger.
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- 7 votes
{"commentId":1652374,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}
oh, the shame....
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{"commentId":1652939,"authorDomain":"fawnshore"}
Dear god.....for once I'm at a loss for words.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":1651793,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}
New Kids on the Block to Reunite
Good lord, why?! I'm pretty sure their teenage heartthrob days are LONG over.
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- 1 vote
#4 - Thu Apr 3, 2008 1:37 PM EDT{"commentId":1651874,"authorDomain":"jessica1973"}
Yes, but all their fans are also pushing 40 as well. Look at David Cassidy and other former teenage heartthrobs. The women who go to their concerts are the same teenage girls who were their fans back then.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1651907,"authorDomain":"kori"}
Please, please tell me that this is a late April Fool's joke. Please? Wow, weird flashbacks to middle school.
Jess - most of their fans are closer to pushing 30. If my town was any indication, they weren't really popular with listeners their own age. Hmm, now I'll have to poll my friends and see if any of them would go. 1 vote for no.
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- 4 votes
#5 - Thu Apr 3, 2008 2:01 PM EDT{"commentId":1652115,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}
I was thinking the same thing wanderlust. 30 is more the age group and while I was almost a fan in middle school, I can't think of anyone I know in my age group who would buy their reunion album let alone go see them in concert. Then again the new Edition reunion was semi-successful, but short lived.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1652215,"authorDomain":"jessica1973"}
Actually, you're right. I am 34 and my younger sisters are 31 and we were fans at the height of NKOTB popularity, so that would make their fans in the early to mid 30's. I grew up in Boston and one of my best friends was in a children's theater group with Joey before his New Kids days and she knew where he lived.
I'm surprised Jonathan is doing this because of all the stage fright and anxiety issues he has said he used to have when they had to perform.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1652426,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}
Jess, you gonna buy the reunion record?
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{"commentId":1652806,"authorDomain":"jessica1973"}
Uh no, however if they come out with a decent new song I may buy it from iTunes.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1654160,"authorDomain":"susan-batty"}
Take That watch out!!
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#6 - Fri Apr 4, 2008 4:36 AM EDT{"commentId":3830434,"authorDomain":"ereul"}
the new album is great, i recommend it highly
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#7 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 1:39 AM EDT{"commentId":4033493,"authorDomain":"Horrified"}
And yet here we are....months later...and their reunion has actually been a success. I heard one (or more?) concert(s) sold out in like, 4 minutes or something...
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