Long before NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys and Take That ruled the earth, the New Kids On The Block were the apex boy band on much of the planet. Teenagers screamed and wept wherever Donnie Wahlberg, brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre and Danny Wood – NKOTB or just New Kids – burst onto the stage. At the end of 80s, youth magazines featured posters of NKOTB almost weekly, while in the US, they topped the charts with smash hits like “I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)”, “Hangin’ Tough” and “Step By Step”. But then the hits failed to materialize and the group dematerialized – disbanded – i…