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Boyzone: Lost Boyz

Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 25 October 1998

They live a rock-and-roll lifestyle but are hung-up about virginity. They act like grown-ups but keep their clothes in baskets with schoolboy name-tags on them. Their leader is a veteran in precociousness — a 21-year-old going on 51. No wonder Boyzone are so confused. How long can a boy band keep puberty at bay?

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