Backstreet Boys (People article on them)
Jump in whenever you here" "Everybody, yeah... Rock your body... Backstreet's back, all right!" Give it up. You know the words. By the time the Backstreet Boys unleashed their unnoficial theme song in March, they were well on their way to 8 million copies of their self-titled album and had put their top 5 hit, "Quit Playing Games (With my Heart)." on the lips of millions of pubescent girls.
And when the Boys-Kevin Richardson, 27, Howie Dorough, 25, A.J. McLean, 20, Brian Littrell, 23, and Nick Carter, 18,-toured the U.S. this summer, bedlam was the disorder of the day. "It's getting crazy," admits Littrell. But at least it's home. The Orlando-based fab five had to go to Europe to find success with their 1995 debut album. "We like our families to be able to turn on the TV and see what we're doing," says Richardson. Even if it is lampooning themselves on this year's MTV Video Music Awards. "they've gone from big to bigger in the year I've known them," says former teen idol Deborah Gibson. "And they haven't changed a bit." Now at work on their next CD, the five even claim they all still get along. "None of u sare going to take each other out yet," jokes Dorough. Or sell out. Vows Littrell. "I don't want Backstreet Boys cereal."
taken from People '98
