![]() That would be the most amazing thing that could happen. As the executive recalls: “We walked into Chastain Park and stopped halfway as the group was performing and I’ll never forget, Clive Calder looked at me and said, ‘It would be amazing if we can get the whole group. It was around then when Weiss headed to Atlanta’s Chastain Park Amphitheatre to check out the group in concert. But Weiss says that regardless of the lawsuit, Timberlake was planning to nullify his contract upon turning 18. *NSYNC were able to break free of Pearlman’s contractual clutches and sever their recording deal with RCA Records. Having become suspicious of the group’s founder and manager, Lou Pearlman, whose shady financial dealings would be exposed in the coming years and result in prison time before his death in 2016, both *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys were embroiled in a 1999 legal battle with the mogul, the latter forced to cut him in on a portion of BSB’s earnings. ![]() ![]() Record executives weren’t necessarily looking for a solo star at the time, but Timberlake’s potential was apparent to Jive Records founder Clive Calder, when he and the label’s then-CEO, Barry Weiss, set out to sign the quintet (Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick) as they became free agents. ![]()
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