The Interview: NEW EDITION TALK TO BEN THOMPSON

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 4, 1996| Author: BEN THOMPSON | Copyright information

In 1983, a fresh-faced quintet of Boston teenagers known as New Edition had a number one hit with a song called "Candy Girl". It was influenced by the Jackson Five's "ABC" in the same way that Christian Slater's early film career was influenced by Jack Nicholson - ie it suggested the cultural tradition it came from had completed its evolution, and the only future that remained lay in periodic revisitation of key steps along the way.

Thirteen years later, such grim forebodings have (at ...

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