Jordan Knight was just 14-years-old when he got his start in New Kids On the Block. By the time he was 18 the band was a global sensation. So, he is one artist that knows exactly what One Direction has been facing.

Knight recently sat down with CBS Local and shared his advice for the U.K. sensation.

“I listen to the radio a lot because I have two kids and I take them back and forth to school and hockey practice and they listen to Top 40 radio stations,” he said. “One Direction is very big right now. That’s how old I was when we made it really big.”

Having been given advice continually when NKOTB were at the height of their fame, he had some words to share with One Direction.

“I would say have fun, man and don’t listen to people giving you advice. We always got advice when we were young. When we were just getting famous the same questions were posed to other, older veteran artists. We would always get a little ticked off,” he said. “Having gone through that, my advice is have fun and don’t listen to the critics.”

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Jordan Knight, der seit 1994 an seiner Solo Karriere arbeitet, feierte in den USA bereits große Erfolge als mit Hits wie “I’ll Be Your Everything” (#1 Billboard Hot 100 Hit), den Jordan im Alter von 17 Jahren für den Sänger Tommy Page schrieb. Er hatte 4 Top 40 Singles erreichte Goldstatus, wurde für diverse Awards nominiert, arbeitete als Juror in einer amerikanischen Musik-show und gründete seine eigene kleine Familie.

Nun ist er wieder mit den NKOTB Jungs Joey, Jonathan, Donnie und Danny unterwegs aber auch für seine Solokarriere nimmt er sich Zeit und released am 04.05.2012 in Deutschland sein Album “Unfinished”. Die erste Single aus dem Album (welche heute veröffentlicht wird) heisst “Let’s Go Higher” und wurde mitproduziert von Colby O’Donis (u.a. Lady Gaga, Akon).

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As a member of New Kids On The Block and a successful solo artist, Jordan Knight has had the world at his feet for the past 25 years. Still, not everything has gone smoothly.

“Well, I quit drinking five, six years ago,” the humble heartthrob, 39, tells me during KTU’s Singles Mingle at Debbie Gibson’s 1980s-themed dance club, Culture Club, in NYC. “I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.”

He adds, “It wasn’t pretty. I was in pain, for sure, and I needed to stop. One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself ‘it’s time to stop. I can’t do it anymore. It’s not good. It hurts too much.”

One reason he decided to stop is for his family, which includes wife Evelyn, whom he wed in 2004, and their sons Dante, 12, and Eric, 5.

“I told myself, ‘I need to cut the crap.’ You’ve got to grow up. I had to mature basically.”

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