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Source: MTV http://www.mtv.com
As the Backstreet Boys gear up for the launch of next month's North American tour to support its newest release, "Millennium," the band is already setting its sights on a fall outing to promote its next album, tentatively due out in October.
The reigning Orlando boy band will team up with Burger King for an exclusive promotional tie-in with the Backstreet Boys' forthcoming new album and fall tour. As part of the deal, the band will offer an exclusive video and CD that will only be available for sale at Burger King restaurants in August and September.
The CD will feature an as-yet-undetermined advance single from the new album, as well as five previously recorded but never-before released live songs taken from the Backstreet Boys' previous tours. The promotional video will contain backstage footage of the Backstreet Boys in action and interviews with all of the members of the group.
Burger King has also signed on to serve as the title sponsor for the Backstreet Boys fall outing.
The Backstreet Boys, who have been nominated for four Grammy Awards (with their hit "I Want It That Way" receiving an additional songwriting nod), will start a North American tour with a two-night stand on February 11 and 12 at the Bryce Jordan Center in State College, Pennsylvania.
Source: The New York Post http://www.nypost.com
THE Backstreet Boys are again suing the svengali who created the band in 1993 and made them all millionaires. Louis J. Pearlman once reportedly kept more than 50 percent of the group's profits. But the phenomenally successful "boy band" has sued Pearlman five times, resulting in three settlementss. And now, Los Angeles Daily Journal columnist Ross Johnson reports, the band has hired top entertainment lawyer Marty Singer to sue them again. Singer -- who has repped the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone -- filed Dec. 1 with the Califormia Labor Commission accusing Pearlman of repeatedly violating the California Talent Agencies Act by functioning as both the group's manager and its unlicensed talent agent. Singer wants all contracts and agreements between the Boys and Pearlman declared null and void, and he wants all the millions Pearlman has earned off the band returned, going back to when they first signed with his Florida-based Transcontinental Records in 1993. Pearlman's lawyer, Michael Friedman, called the Boys' latest legal action "a desperate attempt to renegotiate settlement agreements that they signed. Lou Pearlman honors these agreements, and so should the Boys." The group N' Sync, which Pearlman also used to manage, recently settled a $150 million suit with him.
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