Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about NEW EDITION!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: New Edition is an American R&B group from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts . the group reached its height of popularity in the 1980’s . early hits included “Candy Girl”, “Cool It Now All six members of New Edition reunited in 1996 to record the group’s sixth studio album Home Again . During the ill-fated Home Again Tour, both Bobby Brown and Michael Bivins quit the group, forcing the group received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 23, 2017 . a three-part docuseries premiered on bET about the group’s career and personal life . all six members will reunite the album was released in 1983 on Levi Belt Streetwise Records . it featured the hits: “Is This The End”, “Popcorn Love” and the title track . the boys parted company with starr in 1984 . the Machats secured the group a bigger recording deal with major label MCA Records . the management company, AMI, Jump and Shoot, released the group’s self-titled second album . eclipsing their new edition’s third album, All for Love, was released in the latter half of 1985 . the group would continue to record and tour during this period to pay off its debt . the album was certified platinum, and spawned the hits “Count Me Out” and “With You All the Way” the growing popularity of the group led to a guest appearance in the 1985 film Krush Groove . as 1986 wound to a close, they recorded a cover of The Penguins 1954 hit “Earth Angel” the song peaked at number twenty-one and inspired the group to record Under the Blue Moon . to pad his potential “If It Isn’t Love,” “You’re Not My Kind of Girl,” “Can You Stand The Rain” and “N.E. Heartbreak” became New Edition’s most commercially successful album . the former member Bobby Brown served as the opening acts . Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ron DeVoe formed a trio . their 1990 debut album, Poison, went quadruple platinum . the group reunited to record Home Again, their first new album in eight years . the album debuted at number one on both the billboard 200 and R&B Albums chart . Home Again produced several hits, including the despite not having toured together in close to a decade, old rivalries and struggles for on stage dominance resurfaced . by the middle leg of the tour, one evening at a concert in Las Cruces, deVoe, Bell, Gill, and Tresvant finished out the rest of the tour as a quartet . Brown admitted during an interview that he was intoxicated during the tour . 1996 was the swan Gill signed the group to his Bad Boy Records label after their long term contract with MCA Records ended . in the fall of 2004, new edition’s seventh studio album and Bad Boy debut, One Love, was released . the lead- Ricky Bell revealed that Combs’ refused to pay New Edition’s long time producers for a track that the group wanted on the album . despite the messy divorce with Bad Boy, New Edition soldiered on and continued new edition filmed a concert at the university of south carolina’s Koger Center in Columbia . the concert was billed as “Spend the night with new edition” the group has advertised a BET special in 2008, the group (minus Brown) recorded a new song called “Full Service” for their latest album, The Block . in 2009, Brown, Tresvant and Gill formed a side group called Heads of Ricky Bell and Johnny Gill joined new kids on the block onstage at a house of blues benefit show . Gill later confirmed that new edition had signed with manager Irving Azoff . all six members of new edition reunited in February 2012, Brown would miss a handful of dates due to the death of ex-wife Whitney Houston . on March 9 and 11, 2012, Bobby Brown and Bell Biv DeVoe made their African debut by performing in Nigeria the group’s original choreographer and longtime manager Brooke Payne also served as a co-producer . on January 24–26, 2017, BET aired the biopic miniseries The New Edition Story the miniseries brought in 28.4 million viewers to BET . it was directed by Chris Robinson and executive produced by Jessie Collins . on June 28, 2016, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced New Edition’s induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Recording . in 2017, New Edition received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 BET Awards .