Article: How New Kids reached the end of their road Behind the breakup of a Boston band

New Kids on the Block, neither new nor kids after eight years together, were destined to eventually grow up and apart. Now they have. Their global, moneymaking ride has ended abruptly, sputtering silent after a disappointing comeback. "We had to do one album, one tour exactly the way we wanted to and with complete dedication. We couldn't leave the New Kids with something that wasn't closed," Donnie Wahlberg said on Tuesday from his Braintree home. "Had we walked away two years ago, we would have done solo albums and never come back. But we feel that we went out with dignity."

Jordan Knight announced Saturday that the group had dissolved during the past few weeks, after an ineffective ...

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