European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Michael Bolton a fantasy is happening Michael Bolton poses with the grammy award he won for his hit a How am i supposed to live without you. A by Roger Catlin Hartford courant the pop Star chased by screaming fans. Michael Bolton had Given up that childhood fantasy a Long time ago after years As a struggling performer in new Haven Conn after recording a number of forgotten hard Rock albums. After missed chances commercial misfires and business disappointments. Even after he moved to los Angeles to become a respected a but not exactly popularly known a a pop tunesmith. Then soul provider happened. It sold More than 2 million copies and remains in the top 20 More than a year after the albums release. It spawned four hit singles with a fifth Georgia on my mind on the Way. It won Bolton the grammy award for Best pop vocal male a beating Prince Billy Joel and the late Roy Orbison. Now at age 37, Bolton is attracting those strange sounds. Like exotic Bir Calls from his childhood daydreams women screaming. Quot when i was 11 years old and i was going to see beatle movies and i had a band then called the nomads i used to imagine girls chasing us and screaming and the whole fantasy of the Rock Star thing Quot Bolton recalled Over a cellular phone aboard his tour bus. Quot i gave that up years ago realizing what a rough Road it was. I was just glad having successful hits and that whole fantasy thing drifted away. Now the fantasy thing is  at Charity softball games that he organized across the United states during his summer tour with Kenny g., the fantasy thing was almost out of hand Bolton said. Quot we have to have Security because of the teen age girls a and their mothers they re like animals sometimes if you Don t have a Fence or a Brick Wall or something protecting you they Start getting wild pulling at your clothes your hair they want to bite you Quot in the late �?T60s, when Bolton a then Bolotin a was starting his career and parents nationwide were trying to get their kids to Cut their hair his mom and dad were pillars of support even when he had to quit school to pursue a recording contract he landed at age 15. Quot my parents understood it and they did t pressure me to take another route Quot he said. Quot my Mother was a real Good Singer and Back then it was t very easy for a woman to just decide to have a career if she was a housewife. She sacrificed that. So in a kind of living out her dreams in a certain  Bolton said his father who passed away quite a while ago was his biggest fan. Quot he used to come to every show. It s sad to me that he Hasni to been Able to see All this happening. I feel he some Way really contributed to it All. Quot i feel the Energy. I feel his enthusiasm and Faith. He used to say a you re Gonna be big big big we used to laugh and joke around when he used to say that. We used to imitate him big big big Quot from the beginning songwriting has been a part of Bolton s career. Influenced by singers such As Ray Charles Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding whose Dock of the Bay Bolton would later Cove Bolton wrote his first song at age 12. Quot i remember the first time i thought i had some Talent. I wrote this song and i played it for some people and some of them did t believe i really wrote it a he said. Quot it just confirmed to me that i had some ability to  Bolton spent his Young years recording various albums for different major labels now ironically being remastered and re released on compact disc to Cash in on his current Success. But it was t until his songs started being picked up by stars such As Laura Branigan How am i supposed to live without you Kenny Rogers and the Pointer Sisters that people started remembering his name. Quot you Start out wanting anybody map Daffy Duck a to Cut one of your songs and then it gets to the Point a year ago when barbra Streisand wanted one of my songs i Wasny to sure if i wanted to give it to her. I had to think about what was right for my career rather than giving songs away. But even four years ago that would have been a great  Bolton ended up giving Streisand the song a we re not making love anymore a and Bolton songs Are on new records by performers As diverse As Conway Twitty and kiss. A i like that a having a Streisand record out the same time i have a kiss record out. Its a very schizophrenic kind of experience. They re different facets of my personality musically but i enjoy  new kids really get Tough by Dana Kennedy associated press new kids on the Block Are fast shedding their squeaky clean image As an All american pop group As they make headlines Over an increasing number of scuffles. New kids lawyer Len Lewin planned a trip to the West coast earlier this week to talk to members of the group about their offstage behaviour. Quot some program is going to be established to change things around As to How they conduct themselves. I think something has to be done Quot Lewin said. Quot we re going to sit Down with parents kids management the whole  the Boston Globe published an editorial suggesting that new kids on the Block while a craftily marketed As clean Cut churchgoing inner City youths Quot Are actually Quot Success spoiled youths who badly need  in the past month the quintet from a working class background in Bostons Dorchester Section and their retinue were involved in at least six violent incidents. No charges have been filed against the group. In the most recent incident new kid Donnie Wahlberg 20, allegedly scuffled with a 20-year-old Harvard student Over an airline seat sept. 2 on a flight from Salt Lake City to Atlanta. Wahlberg allegedly punched Benjamin Dattner As some of the groups entourage held him Down. The two exchanged blows after Wahlberg poked Dattner in the Eye witnesses said. Dattner was taken to a Hospital for a scratched Cornea and bruises and was released. The groups tarnished image has left some of its legions of Young fans or Quot blockheads Quot a Little disillusioned. Quot in a not sure in a liking them anymore because they Don t act like they used to Quot Kristin Bothwell 10, of the City a Roxbury Section said last week. Quot people Are getting into fights and they might Start a big bad  Wahlberg has been the group member most involved in the incidents. Last month he and his bodyguard allegedly tussle with Georgia tech students in Atlanta. The same night group member Jordan Knight was accused of hitting a 21-year-old woman in a bar and his bodyguard was accused of beating up two men. In Massachusetts two of Wahlberg s Brothers were arrested in front of his Home in suburban Braintree during a fight. A Man from Foxboro said last month he was beaten up by relatives of group members at a Quincy nightclub. Lewin said he was still trying to gather facts about the latest incident. He said some of the kids trouble Quot May just come with the  Quot is there anything you can do about it i m not so sure Quot he said. The group has been enormously popular mainly with teen agers and preteens. Its Tours have been marked by sellouts and pressing throngs. Two april concerts in England led to the hospitalization of several frenetic fans and first Aid had to be administered to hundreds of youngsters. At this year s american music awards new kids won the favorite pop Rock album trophy for their Hangin Tough up and were named favorite pop Rock  singles 1. Release me a Wilson Phillips 2. Blaze of glory a Jon Bon Jovi 3. Do me a Bell big Devoe 4. Have you seen her a . Hammer 5. Uns Kinny Bop a Poison 6. Love and affection a Nelson 7. Thieves in the Temple a Prince 8. If wishes came True a Sweet sensation 9. Tonight a new kids on the Block 10. Close to you a Maxi priest top a ipos 1. Please Hammer Don t Hurt Mem a . Hammer 2. Wilson Phillips a Wilson Phillips 3. Blaze of glory Young guns ii a Jon Bon Jovi 4. Mariah Carey a Mariah Carey 5. Flesh and blood a Poison 6. Poison a Bell blvd Devoe 7. Compositions a Anita Baker 8. Ill give All my love to you a Keith sweat 9. Step by step a new kids on the Block 10. Graffiti Bridge a Prince country a singles 1. Jukebox in my mind a Alabama 2.1 meant every word he said a Ricky Van Shelton 3. Friends in Low places a Garth Brooks 4. Wanted a Alan Jackson 5. Nothing s news a Clint Black 6. Holding a Good hand a Lee Greenwood 7.1 fell in love a Carlene Carter 8. Next to you next to me a Shenandoah 9. Fourteen minutes old a Doug Stone 10.1 could be persuaded a the Bellamy Brothers Black singles 1. Lies men Vogue 2. Feels Good a Tony toll Tonel 3. Crazy a the boys 4. Thieves in the Temple a Prince 5. Innocent a whispers 6. Have you seen her a . Hammer 7. Everybody everybody a Black Box 8. Heaven knows a Lalah Hathaway 9. Ill be Good to you a Nalee 10. Do you really want my love a Melba Moore Page 16 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday september 12,1990