Report card: As New Edition albums go, All for Love gets a solid B-plus. (Their best work? Their self-titled sophomore album.) And as ’80s R&B in general goes, it gets knocked down to just a B.

They left Starr and signed with MCA, releasing the album “New Edition” in 1984. The group’s next album, “All for Love,” didn’t see as much success. After that, Bobby Brown left the ...

the best of pop … all of that combined in one group.” New Edition remains the only vocal group in music history in which every member has scored a platinum or multiplatinum album. So why has ...