The brainchild of producer Maurice Starr, the male quintet New Kids on the Block
were to bring R&B-style pop in the form of white suburban teen idols to a young
female audience. After picking the boys from a talent search in Boston in 1985,
Maurice Starr signed the group to Columbia for the release of their self-titled
debut album a year later. Their perfectly manufactured pop hits produced what
looked to be an unbeatable string of hit records and in 1989 five singles, taken
from the 1988 album Hangin' Tough, hit the upper echelons of the US Singles
Chart. Their third studio albu...