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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...