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Article: New Kids, New Edition reign at music awards

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April 17, 1991
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New Kids on the Block.

New Edition.

New harmony.

Those elements ruled last night's fifth annual Pepsi Boston Music Awards -- a lively, sold-out Wang Center affair keyed by a surprise performance by the New Kids, a moving hall of fame tribute to Roxbury's New Edition and a symbolic mending-of-the-wounds between the rock and dance/Top 40 camps that have battled for supremacy since the awards began.

"Let's open our minds. We're supposed to be a city -- not a civil war," New Kid singer Donnie Wahlberg said backstage.

Despite prior complaints and boycotts by rock stations WBCN and WFNX, there really was something for everyone last night. New Kids on the Block won three awards, including the ...

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