: 14-year-old A.J. McLean and 19-year-old Howie Dorough audition for the group and are asked to join. Twelve-year-old Nick Carter auditions for the group.  Howie D. turns up. Two other members, Sam Licata and Charles Edwards, temporarily round out the group.Sam Licata leaves the group.  Charles Edwards leaves. b. Kevin Richardson, an actor, model, singer and dancer, auditions and joins.  The search is now on for the fifth and final Backstreet Boy.At 2 p.m., 18-year-old Brian Littrell is called away from his American History class to answer a phone call. His cousin Kevin asks him to audition.   At 9 p.m., Brian auditions over the phone.  He is on a flight to Orlando the next day. The Boys perform their first big concert at Sea World, Orlando to a crowd of more than 3,000 teenagers.  Much to the amazement of the group, the audience went wild. The Boys continue to pergform in a variety of venues from shopping malls to a high-profile gala AIDS charity hosted by Whitney Houston in Fort Lauderdale.

 

  The Boys tour schools across the States, building a fan base and trying to get a recording deal.  They nearly sign with Mercury Records, but the deal falls through at the last minute. Executives from Zomba/Jive catch the Boys performing in Cleveland.  They sign the Boys to their first record deal.  The Boys fly to Sweden to record "We've Got it Going On" and two additional songs with musician Denniz PoP. "We've Got it Going On" is released as a single in the U.S.A. MTV and the press are disinterested.  It only climbed to number 69 on the Billboard charts, resulting in the cancellation of all plans for a promotional tour to plug the new single. "We've Got it Going On" 8s released in Europe. It climbs to the top ten in Germany, earning them their first gold disc.

 

 

 

 

 

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