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Article: Ringing Up the New Kids
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 13, 1990
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YOU SAY you wanna be a New Kids on the Block fan? What's it
worth to you?
Because, baby, devotion to Jordan and Jon Knight, Joe McIntyre,
Danny Wood and Donnie Wahlberg is gonna cost you more than sighs and
screams and the price of a tape, ticket and T-shirt. It's expensive
to be true kids in this flock: According to a spokesman for
Winterland Productions, which handles all merchandising for the New
Kids' summer tour, the average audience member spends $12 above and
beyond the $25 ticket price at a NKOTB concert. Fans purchased
approximately $50 million worth of souvenirs during the group's