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Article: Still a 'Kid' at heart; At 33, Jordan Knight recalls the good old days with New Kids on the Block
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
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- January 15, 2004
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HE WAS A BOY in a boy band before boy bands became big.
Jordan Knight was just a kid himself - barely 15 - when he became
one of the kids in New Kids On The Block, a quintet of Boston boys
who sang and danced their way to wild popularity through the late
'80s and early '90s.
Little did they know they were starting a musical movement that
spawned groups like Boyz II Men and the ultimate boy bands - 'N Sync
and Backstreet Boys. Instead, Jordan and his bandmates were just boys
having fun.
"Back then when we were a group, there wasn't even a term 'boy
band.' It was just us, New Kids On The Block. Just a group," Knight,
now 33, says in a phone interview. "We didn't know we were setting
the mold ...