The New Edition Reunion at the BET Awards Was Something of a Miracle

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From Esquire

Though it's been 13 years since New Edition released an album, the band has occasionally gotten together for various reunion performances, sometimes even including Bobby Brown. And this is somewhat miraculous, considering the famously dramatic group has broken up a few times, canceled tours, and gotten in messy disputes with its record label. But despite the constant turmoil, New Edition has remained one of the most influential R&B groups of the last 30 years, launching the solo careers of Brown, Johnny Gill, and Ralph Tresvant, along with the side-band Bell Biv DeVoe.

And last night at the BET Awards marked one of those rare New Edition reunions, with Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ronnie DeVoe, Ralph Tresvant, Ricky Bell, and Michael Bivins taking the stage in brilliant white suits to play "Mr. Telephone Man," "Can You Stand the Rain," and "If it Isn't Love." They also did a little bit of New Edition-Inception, when the band was joined onstage by the cast of the group's biopic miniseries The New Edition Story, which aired on BET in January.

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