Article: Still a 'Kid' at heart; At 33, Jordan Knight recalls the good old days with New Kids on the Block

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 ...

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