Article: Building Block; Author Rose tells story of New Kids' `Rise'.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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The Boston Herald
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September 25, 2008
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Byline: JED GOTTLIEB

Great boy bands come with great svengalis. The Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync had swindler Lou Pearlman; the Jackson 5 had father/taskmaster Joe Jackson; and New Edition and New Kids on the Block had Maurice Starr, a Roxbury-based musical genius and entrepreneur.

Starr invented the modern boy band in the mid-'80s, when he applied his New Edition r & b formula to five white teens from Boston. Starr was the man behind New Kids - who return as grown men to play the TD Banknorth Garden tomorrow and on Sunday - but Tony Rose was the man behind Starr. OK, not quite behind, but next to.

Rose secured Starr's first major label record ...

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