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Article: Fan sues New Kids here, charges singing is faked
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 5, 1992
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The popular rock group New Kids on the Block has been named in a
$75 million civil fraud suit here, which alleges they don't really
sing their songs.
The New Kids "do not, in fact, sing all the vocals or songs at
their concerts or in their recording," fan Michael Siegel said in a
class action suit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court.
Siegel went to a New Kids concert in 1990 and purchased some of
the group's merchandise and its album, "Hanging Tough Live."
"He feels he didn't get what he bargained for," said Siegel's
lawyer, Larry Drury.
The suit cites a New York Times article dated Jan. 30 in which
the group's former producer, Greg McPherson, alleged the band
contributed no ...