THE TOP TEN BOY BANDS THEY’VE TRUMPED

Frankie Lymon & the teenagers: The first boy band – Frankie was just 13 – had a hit with Why Do Fools Fall In Love in 1956 the BeatLes: They are taken more seriously than boy bands, but they inspired the same hysteria in teenage girls wherever they went the monkees: Put together for a TV show about ‘a band that wanted to be The Beatles’, they became stars in their own right Bay City roLLers: They threatened to turn the world tartan in the 70s. Nowadays they are busy with legal disputes over royalties menudo: The Puerto Rican boy band sensation of the 80s best known for featuring a prepubescent Ricky Martin (back row, in yellow)