From CNN.com-BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block.
New Kids on the Block sold millions of records in the late '80s and early '90s.
The boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early '90s, 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 multiplatinum album, "Hangin' Tough."
"The fan response to this has been incredible," band member Donnie Wahlberg told the Boston Herald.
Wahlberg said he was persuaded 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 Boston, 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
New Kids on the Block sold millions of records in the late '80s and early '90s.
The boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early '90s, 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 multiplatinum album, "Hangin' Tough."
"The fan response to this has been incredible," band member Donnie Wahlberg told the Boston Herald.
Wahlberg said he was persuaded 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 Boston, 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
3 comments:
Oh dear lord, my greatest fears have come to fruition. How can they even keep that ridiculous name? Almost every word is an outright lie.
I'm also disappointed that none of them are fat and/or bald. Sigh. Well at least Joey Lawrence hasn't announced a comeback...
From thesuperficial, The New Kids on the Block appeared on The Today Show this morning to a horde of screaming fans. Half of which weren't even born when they used to be popular. But, it's official, NKOTB is back, baby! What surprises me the most is seeing Donnie Wahlberg transition from group bad boy to suave spokesperson. I figured by now he'd be doing time in federal prison for boosting cars and jacking punks. I mean, the guy wore an oversized leather jacket and a bandana. That's the epitome of badass! He probably still has a Yosemite Sam tattoo. Dammit, Donnie, why'd you have to hang so tough?
When I was in college some friends of mine had a NKOTB poster above the stove. People would throw strands of spaghetti at it to see if it was done cooking. If the strand stuck to the Kids, your pasta was done. Of course the spaghetti would then be left on the poster afterwards.
That's where these foos belong, the back corner of a college kitchen being slowly buried by spaghetti.
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