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ABOUT NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK...
For once, all the rumors are actually true."The Right Stuff" really is -- at long last -- returning to your block. Thankfully, this time, it's all happening in the right way too.New Kids On The Block -- five now fully-grown men who forever defined what the modern boy band would look and sound like -- are back together for the very first time in nearly a decade and a half, and currently rehearsing for their hotly anticipated international concert tour Their first new album since 1994 is called THE BLOCK and will be released on September 8, 2008. New Kid's first new single since the Nineties, SUMMERTIME has been blowing up the charts.On a March afternoon, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood are gathered together, hanging tough all over again in a small Los Angeles studio looking a little older, but still youthful, fit and anxious to not simply celebrate their musical legacy, but also add something new and personally meaningful to it. In the late Eighties and early Nineties, while still teenagers themselves, New Kids on the Block became a phenomenon, selling over 70 million albums - including the back-to-back international number one efforts, 1988's Hangin' Tough and 1990's Step By Step -- and a series of crossover smash R&B, pop hits like "You Got It (The Right Stuff)," "Cover Girl," "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)," "Hangin' Tough," "I'll Be Loving You," "Step By Step" and "Tonight" -- as well as countless number of concert tickets, t-shirts and even lunchboxes to primarily female kids around the world. Then under the guidance of producer Maurice Starr who had previously brought the world New Edition, the New Kids made a tremendous impact on the culture very quickly.
