The Rise of the New Kids on the Block and A Guy Named Maurice Starr - Rose, Tony
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In 1953 many legends were born, but only one musical genius would create an international frenzy with a group of boys from North Dorchester and Jamaica Plain in Boston. Larry Johnson would become Maurice Starr, surrounded by love and music from day one, and destined to become a hit-making songwriter and producer responsible for culminating 70 million record sales worldwide. Before the Legend-The Rise of New Kids on the Block...and a Guy Named Maurice Starr: The Early Years is a remarkable true story as told by author Tony Rose, the primary architect along with Maurice Starr of the…mehr

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In 1953 many legends were born, but only one musical genius would create an international frenzy with a group of boys from North Dorchester and Jamaica Plain in Boston. Larry Johnson would become Maurice Starr, surrounded by love and music from day one, and destined to become a hit-making songwriter and producer responsible for culminating 70 million record sales worldwide. Before the Legend-The Rise of New Kids on the Block...and a Guy Named Maurice Starr: The Early Years is a remarkable true story as told by author Tony Rose, the primary architect along with Maurice Starr of the Boston/Roxbury Music Scene. When the fairy tale began, like a cosmic force, the entities were destined by fate to be in place where the dream would unfold. Tracing the roots of the world's biggest-grossing boy band and their zealous record producer Maurice Starr, this New Kids on the Block biography is the true behind-the-scenes story of the teenage boys that paved the way for boy bands of the 1990s. Giving a firsthand look at the dedication, success, and many failures of Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood, and Joe MacIntyre, this biography chronicles the beginnings of the five working-class boys living in the blue-collar districts of Boston, striving to make their way to the top of the music industry to become one of the top-selling musical groups of their time. ¿Five working-class boys who lived in the blue-collar districts of Boston called north Dorchester and Jamaica Plain and Maurice Starr, a record producer from Roxbury would go to the dizzying heights of the music world at a speed so phenomenal that it shattered most existing record sales and concert tour sales. This is the true, undoctored, hard-hitting, fact-filled story of Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood, and Joe McIntyre...
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Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, Amber Communications Group, Inc. Is an NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literature. Tony Rose was born in Roxbury, (Boston) Massachusetts, and raised in the Whittier Street Housing Projects. He is the Publisher, and CEO of Amber Communications Group, Inc., the nation's largest African American Publisher of Self-Help Books and Music Biographies, and the 2013 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literature. Rose is the editor of numerous books and the co-writer of the national bestsellers, Is Modeling for You? The Handbook and Guide for the Young Aspiring Black Model and Journey to Wakanda: The Life and Legacy of Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther & Beyond, written with Yvonne Rose; and he has penned the critically acclaimed, international best-seller, Before the Legend: The Rise of New Kids On the Block and A Guy Named Maurice Starr, The Early Years. He has written, compiled, edited, and published, the award-winning, international best-seller, African American History In The United States of America-An Anthology-From Africa To President Barack Obama, Volume One, a Top Ten Best African American Book, and has written the critically acclaimed, international best-seller, non-fiction book of the year and a Top Ten Best Black Book of 2015, America the Black Point of View-An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe which includes The Autobiography of an American Ghetto Boy-The 1950's and 1960's-From the Projects to NAACP Image Award Winner, Volume One.