New Edition
Kicking the lovable soul of the Motown vocal groups into a new era, New Edition
laid a template for the boy bands of the 1980s and 1990s with their strutting
attitude and pouting, urban pop. Inspired by The Jackson 5, the Boston school
friends formed in 1978 and got their break when they finished second in a high
profile local talent contest and earned a deal with Maurice Starr's label
Streetwise Records. Led by the swaggering Bobby Brown, the group (all aged
between 13 and 15) shot to Number 1 in the UK with debut single Candy Girl, but
it was double platinum second album New Ed...
