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It's the New Kids on the Block!

Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 16 November 1989

IT'S THE Monday morning after their "triumphant" performance of 'You Got It (The Right Stuff)' at the Smash Hits Poll Winners' Party and New Kids On The Block are in their swank hotel, preparing to talk to Smash Hits. One can picture the scene, can't one, viewers? The five "clean-cut" American youngsters who are The Kids — the biggest pop sensation in America for many many years — brushing their teeth and combing their hair and drinking pints of milk and thinking up deeply polite answers to questions...

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