Library Rock's Backpages

New Kids On The Block: Step by Step (CBS 466686 1)

David Sinclair, The Times, 22 June 1990

CONCERNED PARENTS may be anxious to discover what exactly has precipitated the recent bouts of querulous mass hysteria among our nation's six to 12 year-olds. Basically an updated version of the Osmonds, the New Kids On The Block from Boston are the brainchildren of Maurice Starr, a Svengali-like figure who masterminded the spectacularly successful career of New Edition, the group fronted by a then infant Bobby Brown.

Total word count of piece: 117

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.