11.   It was before the boy bands, pop tarts, and rock-rap mooks came in and started running things.

12.   Make no mistake, those who hate boy bands are just as passionate as those who love them.

13.   PHOENIX - One thing about the current crop of boy bands.

14.   Resnes has a bearded, outdoorsy look while Dons has the artfully mussed hair and clean-cut appearance of a backup singer in a boy band.

15.   Robbie Williams, formerly of the English boy band Take That, was a smash in England and has been moderately successful here.

16.   Roddick has been a one-man boy band.

17.   So long as there are teenage girls with hormones and allowances, there will be boy bands.

18.   Something about that magic combination of sand, sun and surf draws millions of us to the coast like so many teen-age girls chasing a boy band.

19.   The hottest boy band in America.

20.   They know what happened to Hammer, and pop music wisdom is that dolls are death to boy bands.