NKOTB Reunites May 16th-set your DVR's

[Christine]

now if you knew what NKOTB meant you were a true fan!!! I just found the article about this and the official date and got excited, my students think I am crazy and have no idea who the heck I am talking about but that's okay.

 

New Kids on the Block to reunite - TODAY Concerts - MSNBC.com

New Kids on the Block to reunite

Band will perform first live concert since 1994 on the TODAY Show plaza

By Mike Celizic

TODAY

updated 32 minutes ago

They’re no longer kids, and the block they’ll be on is actually Rockefeller Plaza. But for the first time in 14 years, the New Kids on the Block will be reunited Friday on TODAY.

 

The band will return to TODAY on May 16 to perform their first live concert since 1994 as part of TODAY’s summer concert series on the Plaza.

 

The reunion comes 22 years after the band was formed in Boston and 20 years after the debut of their breakthrough album, “Hanging Tough,†rocketed Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood and Jordan and Jonathan Knight to stardom. Over the next six years, they sold more than 70 million albums and made hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

Wahlberg said he was persuaded to get back together with his former bandmates — Joey McIntyre, brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood — when they decided to record new music. Wahlberg said he wrote 80 percent of the new material with McIntyre and Jordan Knight.

 

“I had no interest going out on a nostalgia tour and singing the same material,†said Wahlberg, 38.

 

But, he added: “We absolutely will do the old songs for sure.â€

 

Producer Maurice Starr formed the group in Boston in the 1980s, hoping to re-create the success he had with another teen group from Boston, New Edition.

 

At the height of their popularity, New Kids sold out world tours, marketed millions of dollars in merchandise and spawned a Saturday morning cartoon.

 

No longer boys and with their music fallen out of favor, the group disbanded in 1994 and its members scattered off to separate careers. Jonathan Knight went into real estate; his brother Jordan continued a solo singing career and had a platinum single, “Give It to You.â€

 

McIntyre also went solo and got into acting, landing a regular role on “Boston Public†and taking a turn on “Dancing with the Stars.â€

 

Wood went back to Boston, started a record label, and continued to sing. Wahlberg became an actor, a career path that had been blazed by his brother Mark “Marky Mark†Wahlberg.

 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[starchild]

Wooooo! Yari and I have joked about going to their concert when they hit L.A. There is no way DH will go with me...lol I saw NKOTB live on their Step by Step tour...ha!

 

P.S. Check out Donnie looking all hot...he was always my favorite!

[Christine]

I went to their concert too, and my DH and I pick a concert every summer, he got last summer so its my turn and Rascall Flatts always sells out so guess what if they are coming here, we will be going!!

[starchild]

That's right Christine! Represent for our generation!

 

This is for you...the only song my DH will halfway admit to liking...lol:

 

YouTube - NEW KiDS ON THE BLOCK- Please don't go girl

[Christine]

I am sending my DH the link right now...

[Christine]

Jamy I have to say when I read the article and they said they released their first album 20 years ago I suddenly felt so old.

[starchild]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christine Jamy I have to say when I read the article and they said they released their first album 20 years ago I suddenly felt so old.

No kidding!!!!

[Jenn3878]

Oh my that is so funny! I got goosebumps HAHA! I used to LOVE them! We took my younger brother with us and now he is into metal but if I want to mess with him I always say - hey dont you remember your first concert was NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK! Pisses him off and my sister and I laugh our butts off!

[Spazz]

My sister emailed me this morning to ask if we should move the wedding date...lol! I have been telling my sisters that we are going to their concert as soon as I heard they were reuniting (my sister took me to the NKOTB concert when I was in 4th grade so I thought it would be great to go together 20 years later). Oh well, maybe I'll catch them next time around!

 

BTW, something really embarrassing... I've wanted to name my child (girl or boy) Jordan ever since I fell in love with Jordan Knight so long ago. Mike told me hell no!

[Jacqueline]

OH I used to LOVE NKOTB. Aw so cute. I had the big pins all over my coat, posters hanging next to my bed. Brings back memories hearing that they are coming around again...