The reunion of the 90’s group New Kids on the Block – one of the first and most successful boy bands ever – proved to be such a massive hit that the band has decided to tour again this spring.
“This is beyond our wildest dreams,”NKOTB singer Donnie Wahlberg is quoted as saying by Usmagazine.com. “The T-shirts, the screams, the emails, the messages — it’s been amazing so far, and we are all just so happy to keep it going.”
New Kids on the Block who have also been called the NKOTB are an award winning group of pop singers who had considerable success in the latter part of the eighties and the early part of the nineties.
They were one of the earlier boy bands and those of us who lived that era of pop music won’t forget their music or their energy.
Taking their beginnings in Boston in 1984 they consisted of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood.
NKOTB went straight up, selling more than 80 milion records, and doing literally hundreds of concerts nationally.
NKOTB paved the way for groups such as the Backstreet Boys, and won award after award for their music, including such greats as the American Music Awards in 1990 for Favorite Pop/Rock Band and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for “Hangin’ Tough”.
NKOTB broke up in 1994, and after a few tries at getting the group back together they reunited this year, and with a new look, a new style and a whole new album, New Kids are back.
Their concert tour is a singular success, reminscent of the old –New Kids, and well worth your time to take a look
The reunited New Kids on the Block – one of the first and most successful boy bands ever – are touring the country right now.
Their tour entitled “New Kids on the Block: Live” kicked off on Sep. 18 and the group’s set list is a mix of material from their new album “The Block” and past hits such as “Please Don’t Go Girl,” “I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)” and “You Got It (The Right Stuff).”
“Our old songs aren’t necessarily standards — they were pretty sweet — but it’s going to be fun in a live show. People come to hear that music, so we’re going to sing it with basically the same sound. We’re not doing a reggae version of our three biggest hits because when I see that, it pisses me off. Even I’m like `Spare me.’ We have something like ten top ten hits, which is amazing. So if we do those and five new songs, we’ll have a hell of a show. We will give the people what they want to hear”, Donnie Wahlberg is quoted as saying on the boy band’s official website.
The reunion of the group’s now five fully-grown men, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood, Joey McIntyre and Jordan and Jonathan Knight, has proven to be a huge success. Their concerts are as packed with screaming fans as they were during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the only difference is that the crowd’s average age is a little bit higher today then it was fourteen years ago.