Planet Pop

Motown Records producer Norman Whitfield, who co-wrote such classics as I Heard It Through the Grapevine and Papa Was a Rolling Stone, was sentenced on Monday to six months of home detention for failure to file US income tax returns. Whitfield, 65, admitted in a guilty plea in January that he had deliberately neglected to report to the Internal Revenue Service more than US$4 million in songwriting royalties he earned from 1995 through 1999.