A quarter of a million fans voted on which of the bands' hits should appear on the album (five from each original act, plus the obligatory mash-up), while the 52-date US tour is nearly sold out. The first single, Don't Turn Out The Lights, was premiered during the Backstreet Boys cruise (NKOTB also have an annual jaunt), a kind of 25–40 holiday/meet-and-greet in which the band and fans mingle over dodgy prawn cocktails and sticky dancefloors for around $600 a ticket. ![]() Initially billed as a one-off, it led to a joint tour and a best-of album with two new songs. In front of fireworks and spread out over two stages, nine men resplendent in cropped leather jackets, box-fresh trainers and an assortment of facial hair and hats (baldness can be a bugger) arrived as the acronym-tastic NKOTBSB. ![]() It was born at last November's American Music Awards. Fast forward 20 years, and taking their cue from Warner, possibly, NKOTB (as they are now called) have fused with another former globe-straddling act, Backstreet Boys, to create an 18-legged pop monster. Around the same time (roughly), Donnie, Danny, Joey, Jordan and Jonathan, AKA New Kids On The Block, were the biggest boyband on the planet. In the late-80s, comic-book writer and artist Chris Warner led a brainstorming session at Dark Horse Comics, the result of which was Alien Vs Predator, a coming together of two once-mighty franchises in a battle royal that would spawn two lacklustre films.
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