EX-NEW KIDS' PRODUCER FILES $21 MILLION SUIT

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DATE: TUESDAY, January 28, 1992                   TAG: 9201280092
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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EX-NEW KIDS' PRODUCER FILES $21 MILLION SUIT
The former music director and producer of the group New Kids on the Block has filed a $21 million lawsuit accusing the group of being involved in musical fakery.
Gregory McPherson is suing Maurice Starr, who founded the group in 1984 and manages it but is not a member of it, for creative infringement and breach of contract.
McPherson, who filed the suit last week in Massachusetts Superior Court, says that he should have received 2 percent of what was probably at least $20 million in gross sales revenues from the group's "Hanging Tough Live" video, but has received nothing.
McPherson also charges that the New Kids actually contributed no more than 20 percent of the singing on their albums. Starr and his brother, Michael Johnson, did the rest, McPherson says. - The New York Times

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB