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"Hanson-mania grips Southland"
Wall to wall screaming teenagers, mostly girls, jammed the Southland Shopping Centre car part yesterday.
Anyone who walked away from the American group Hanson mini-concert without ringing in their ears was not really there.
More than 25,000 hysterical fans were in pop heaven when Hanson brothers Isaac, 16, Taylor, 14, and Zachary, 11, performed a short but spirited set.
When the group took the stage at 11:30am, the crowd surged forward, jamming young girls against a barrier.
While security guards were lifting 50 distressed fans to safety, some being taken out on stretchers, the Hansons pleaded for calm.
The group, with Isaac on acoustic guitar, Taylor on tambourine, and Zac shaking a maracca, performed three more songs - 'Man from Milwaukee', 'A minute without you' and 'MMMBop', it's smash hit.
Tears flowed as each girl mouthed the words and bopped to the beat. Their devotion was rewarded by an encore of a perfectly harmonised, a cappella rendition of MMMBop - and then the idols were gone.
The St John ambulance treated 48 people for minor complaints. "It think for most of them it was just hysteria." A spokeswoman said.
According to the Australian Record Association, 'MMMBop' was nine weeks at the top of the singles chart before falling to second last week. 'MMMBop' is said to have sold more than 140,000 copies in Australia since its release on 19 May.
The Age Newspaper - Melbourne
August 3rd 1997
by Carolyn Webb
They are on a whirlwind promotional tour of Australia.
"Everybody step back…we don't want anybody to die here." Said Taylor Hanson.
From then, the only discomfort was caused by the pitch of the screams once the blond trio dressed in simple pants and skivvies with their hair in pony tails, had launched into their first song 'Madeline'.
Two people were taken to hospital, one with a back injury, the other with possible concussion. About 30 people had slept the night in the car park to ensure a front spot. The crowd started building at 5am. By 11am, with Hanson due, it stretched the length of the undercover car park on the western side of the shopping centre.
