
Mind you, he almost lost both when, at the age of 13, his voice broke and he could no longer do justice to the band’s bubblegum ballads, leading to the more “experimental” Crazy Horses album in 1972. Photograph: Dezo Hoffman/Rex/ShutterstockĪn original teen heart-throb, Donny Osmond was able to balance being the star of the Osmonds with a burgeoning solo career. But, on the other hand, he wrote Back for Good, so he’s on the list.

Two, he epitomised the antithesis of a good boyband member, ie he was the Sensible One, a role taken up by Liam Payne in One Direction. There’s a lot to dislike about Gary Barlow vis-a-vis his boyband years. But in middle brother Taylor, they had a ruddy-cheeked, beaded necklace-wearing, keyboard-hammering teen heartthrob. Hanson were the anti-boyband when they emerged in 1997, all unkempt (yet probably expertly conditioned) blonde hair, slacker outfits and, you know, real instruments. It was Les McKeown, however, who sang their biggest hits during the peak of their mid-70s hysteria, pulling off some ludicrous, often awkwardly cropped, tartan-themed outfits while maintaining a down-to-earth brio. Les McKeownĪccording to Wikipedia, 25 men have been able to say they were once a member of Scotland’s answer to the Beatles, the Bay City Rollers. This story is from the December 6th, 2001 issue of Rolling Stone.Every boyband needs a brooding outlier who doesn’t really want to be there, and Busted’s very own hair-gel-soaked rebel was Charlie Simpson, whose heavy-set eyebrows communicated more emotion than the other two members combined. To find a resolution that I won’t just quit after January. I’d like to see Eminem, Merle Haggard and O-Town do a song together. What changes would you like to see in pop culture next year? It’s just that I can think of a couple of things I wish he hadn’t worn in public. What’s the one thing you wish you hadn’t worn in public? We went all by our lonesomes for, like, a week. My wonderful female of a girlfriend took me there. Where’s the best place you went on tour or vacation this year? I also really liked Maxwell’s song “Lifetime.” It reminds me of Sam Cooke or Al Green, all the stuff I grew up on. We were recording the “What’s Going On?” record. That impressed me, especially because when I met her, her head was completely spinning, you know, from how her record was blowing up. Not because of the record she just has a vibe about her that good people have. For so many people to respond to it, that was a relief. I think this was a big growth album for us, a step in the right direction. We wanted to see if people were going to enjoy the music.
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We didn’t do all of the radio stations or TV shows.

The MTV awards – we’ve won a lot of awards, but it seemed like a moment where we were like, “Whoa, are we part of this?” Then, Michael Jackson – for us to want to honor Michael Jackson by bringing him onstage, and then for him to want to honor us back by accepting? That was just like, “Wow, what’s going on here?” The album release – this record, we didn’t do as much promotion as we did for No Strings Attached. The MTV awards and our album release, for two totally different reasons. Timberlake, what was the high point of your year? But in 2001, the Orlando five shimmied on, selling 1.9 million copies of their follow-up, Celebrity, duetting with Aerosmith at the Super Bowl, dancing with Michael Jackson at the MTV Video Music Awards (and stealing four moon men) and joining the all-star cast of the Bono-organized benefit track “What’s Going On?” Justin Timberlake checked in from a hotel room in lovely Columbus, Ohio, midchill with girlfriend Britney Spears during some off-time on her tour. It was enough for an entire career, an apex at which any gambler would cash in and move out.

In 2000, ‘N Sync broke all manner of records with the 2.4 million first-week sales of No Strings Attached.
