NKOTB gives props to Michael Jackson's legacy

Homegrown talent the New Kids on the Block paid homage to the legacy of Michael Jackson during their performance Thursday night in Detroit.

In a moving statement posted by NKOTB's Donnie Wahlberg here, he fondly remembers the icon. "Michael Jackson was, without a doubt, the single most amazing performer that I’ve ever seen," he writes. "As a young teenage boy with a dream, he was beyond inspirational."

Wahlberg continues, "The fact that his public/private life became a soap opera and a sideshow is more of a reflection of our societies misplaced priorities than it is a reflection of the type of person that he may have been. Yet despite all of that--the fact that his performances, even of even 25 years ago, still resonate today."