POP/ROCK - Jan. 30, 1992

Read My Lips: In a new lip-sync controversy, the producer of the latest New Kids on the Block album says the group sang only about 20% of the music, but Kids representatives deny it and say the producer was fired. Greg McPherson claims Michael Johnson and his brother Maurice Starr, the Kids’ manager, are the real voices and says he has documentation “a fool could see.” Starr, in a statement, said he and Johnson did only background vocals while the Kids sang all lead vocals. Bob Woolf, the group’s business manager, also denied the lip-syncing charge and said McPherson was dismissed after he produced the album, but didn’t elaborate.