Feuds, rip-offs, breakups, reunions, even onstage intra-band fistfights—legendary boy band New Edition has dealt with all of it and more throughout the group’s storied career. Emerging from the Orchard Park projects of Boston, the childhood friends quickly rose from local heroes to international superstars in 1983, with a series of instantly classic singles and sold-out concerts in their wake. Even as bad deals and internal turmoil shadowed the group from the moment each member was infamously paid $1.87 after New Edition’s first cross-country tour, the songs have stood the test of time. The music still sparkles with the talent and energy of those five kids from Boston: Ricky Bell, Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant, Ronnie DeVoe and Michael Bivins (Johnny Gill, who joined the group after Brown was voted out in 1986, is from Washington, D.C.).   With the highly-anticipated three-night BET mini-series, The New Edition Story, set to launch on January 24 at 9/8C, interest in the groundbreaking

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