More than 15 years after their first single, the two boy bands have joined forces
Hard as it is to believe, it’s been a whopping 26 years since the New Kids on the Block released their first single. For the Backstreet Boys, it’s been 16.
New Kid Donnie Wahlberg was a spry 17 back then; so was the Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean.
A lot has happened since then. They’ve grown up, for one.
“Some of the New Kids have kids of their own,” McLean said.
Wahlberg and McLean are even members of the same country club in California. Along the way, McLean checked in and out of rehab, and Jonathan Knight came out of the closet. They’ve gone from being the most popular boy group in the country to being has-beens and, eventually, nostalgia acts.
While demand for a comeback concert by just one of the groups might not have materialized, combined, they’ve engineered an unlikely return to the arenas that they could fill effortlessly during each others’ heydays. Read full article.
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