New Kids On The Block Raise again. Editor Katie Watkins 11/4/22 When we talk about NKOTB we think boyband, teenage fans and manufactured music. It was also a good decade for teen idols in music, and few, if any at all, were bigger than New Kids on the Block . The famous band, including members Jonathan Knight, Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg , and Danny Wood The band were the blue print for so many other bands to follow in there footsteps and about a decade before Lou Pearlman made stars out of the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. With promoter Maurice Starr — the same man who discovered New Edition in the early '80s — took five teenage boys from Boston and transformed them into global superstars. Just as you can expect from a popular boy band, NKOTB had a knack for cranking out up-tempo earworms and tender love ballads alike, though they weren't afraid either of veering into harder-edged, almost pop-rock territory ("Hangin' Tough") With most manufact...