Phil Spector, famed music producer and convicted murderer, dead at 81

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Phil Spector, famed music producer and convicted murderer, dead at 81

Legendary music producer Phil Spector has died while still serving 19 years-to-life for murder, officials announced Sunday.
The Bronx-born “Wall of Sound” producer was 81.
California state prison officials said he died at 6:35 p.m Saturday of natural causes after being taken to “an outside hospital.”
While officials said the cause of death would be “determined by the medical examiner” at a later date, sources told TMZ that he died of complications from COVID-19.
He was first hospitalized with a coronavirus infection four weeks ago, before returning to prison — but died Saturday after being rushed back to a hospital that day after struggling to breathe, the outlet said.
Spector was convicted in 2009 of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion on the edge of Los Angeles.
The B-movie actress had been found shot to death in the foyer of Spector’s mansion — which he maintained was an “accidental suicide.”
After a 2007 mistrial, Spector was retried in 2009 and convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 19 years in prison.
It was a shocking downfall for the producer hailed as a visionary whom John Lennon called him “the greatest record producer ever.”
His revolutionary “Wall of Sound” — merging vocal harmonies with lavish orchestral arrangements — produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965.
They started with famed pop songs such as “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Be My Baby” and “He’s a Rebel,” then led to him working with the Beatles on “Let It Be,” as well as Leonard Cohen, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.
His violence also emerged in the studio, with shocking stories of him threatening his superstar acts.
He was accused of having fired a gun into a studio while working with Lennon, and also and once holding Leonard Cohen’s head during sessions for “Death of a Ladies’ Man.”
New York rockers The Ramones also said he held them hostage at gunpoint while recording of their album “End of the Century.”
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Phil Spector, Famed Music Producer Imprisoned in Slaying, Dies at 81

Phil Spector, Famed Music Producer Imprisoned in Slaying, Dies at 81

Known for creating the ‘Wall of Sound,’ he scored hits with the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers and was one of the most influential figures in popular music.
By William Grimes

• Jan. 17, 2021Updated 2:48 p.m. ET

Phil Spector, one of the most influential and successful record producers in rock ’n’ roll, who generated a string of hits in the early 1960s defined by the lavish instrumental treatment known as the wall of sound, but who was sentenced to prison for the murder of a woman at his home, died on Saturday. He was 81.
The cause was complications of Covid-19, his daughter, Nicole Audrey Spector, said. He was taken to San Joaquin General Hospital on Dec. 31 and intubated in January, she said.
Mr. Spector had been serving a prison sentence since 2009 for the murder of Lana Clarkson, a nightclub hostess whom he had taken to his home after a night of drinking in 2003. The Los Angeles police found her slumped in a chair in the foyer, dead from a single bullet wound to the head.
Mr. Spector scored his first No. 1 hit when he was still in his teens. With the Teddy Bears, a group he formed with two school friends, he recorded the dreamy ballad “To Know Him Is to Love Him.” Released in August 1958, it sold more than a million records after the group appeared on the popular TV show “American Bandstand,” with Mr. Spector playing guitar and singing backup.
After learning the ropes as a record producer, Mr. Spector, the central figure in Tom Wolfe’s 1965 essay “The First Tycoon of Teen,” became a one-man hit factory. Between 1960 and 1965 he placed 24 records in the Top 40, many of them classics.
His 13 Top 10 singles included some of the quintessential “girl group” songs of the era: “He’s a Rebel,” “Uptown,” “Then He Kissed Me” and “Da Doo Ron Ron”by the Crystals, and “Be My Baby” and “Walking in the Rain” by the Ronettes.
For the Righteous Brothers he produced “Unchained Melody” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” a No. 1 hit that became the 20th century’s most-played song on radio and television, according to BMI.
Mr. Spector single-handedly created the image of the record producer as auteur, a creative force equal to or even greater than his artists, with an instantly identifiable aural brand.
“There were songwriter-producers before him, but no one did the whole thing like Phil,” the songwriter and producer Jerry Leiber told Rolling Stone in 2005. Mr. Leiber, who died in 2011, and Mr. Spector served a brief but crucial apprenticeship together at Atlantic Records.
Mr. Spector’s signature was the wall of sound, perfected at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, where he worked with the engineer Larry Levine, the arranger Jack Nitzsche and a team of musicians nicknamed the Wrecking Crew by Hal Blaine, one of their regular drummers.

With dozens of musicians and backup singers packed into Gold Star’s cramped quarters, Mr. Spector layered multiple guitars, basses and keyboards over one another and applied a shimmering gloss of strings. This sonic wave assumed even grander proportions when channeled through Gold Star’s resonant echo chambers.
“The records are built like a Wagner opera,” Mr. Spector told The Evening Standard of London in 1964. “They start simply and they end with dynamic force, meaning and purpose. It’s in the mind, I dreamed it up. It’s like art movies.”
The wall of sound profoundly influenced a host of producers and rock groups, from the Beach Boys to Bruce Springsteen.
“He was everything,” Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys told an interviewer for the British documentary “Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys Story.” He called Mr. Spector “the biggest inspiration in my entire life.” To John Lennon, he was “the greatest record producer ever.”

 

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For whatever it's worth and I apologize if the Spectors feel any disrespect, disrespect is not my intention but it has always been my opinion that Phil was an alcoholic. This is not to say Phil didn't have other mental problems, I am not saying that but there's no real way of knowing those alleged problems without first dealing with the alcoholism.
The AMA after all classifies alcoholism as a "disease" and as such is
incurable" but treatable. The best known treatment for alcoholism is the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous which at one point years ago had as much as a 90+% recovery rate when "big book step study" was utilized exactly as written by Bill W and Dr Bob who along with 100 men and women wrote the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, It was their opinion that alcoholism was not a "disease" but in fact a mental "illness" that was if not curable, treatable.

It was well known that Phil had a long term psychiatrist in ny city. It is also well known that shrinks and alcoholism don't mix well or at least didn't mix well for many decades as shrinks and the big book are on different wavelengths. That said it is also well known that when Phil drank, Phil had a tendency to lose it and would become angry-like and capable of violence. Unfortunately for Phil, for Lana Clarkson , and for others feelings, had Phi's MD in NY been ethical he would have directed Phil to AA where Phil could have received proper treatment and had he been successful with that he would maybe still be hanging out at his castle.
RIP Phil

 

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For whatever it's worth and I apologize if the Spectors feel any disrespect, disrespect is not my intention but it has always been my opinion that Phil was an alcoholic. This is not to say Phil didn't have other mental problems, I am not saying that but there's no real way of knowing those alleged problems without first dealing with the alcoholism.
The AMA after all classifies alcoholism as a "disease" and as such is
incurable" but treatable. The best known treatment for alcoholism is the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous which at one point years ago had as much as a 90+% recovery rate when "big book step study" was utilized exactly as written by Bill W and Dr Bob who along with 100 men and women wrote the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, It was their opinion that alcoholism was not a "disease" but in fact a mental "illness" that was if not curable, treatable.

It was well known that Phil had a long term psychiatrist in ny city. It is also well known that shrinks and alcoholism don't mix well or at least didn't mix well for many decades as shrinks and the big book are on different wavelengths. That said it is also well known that when Phil drank, Phil had a tendency to lose it and would become angry-like and capable of violence. Unfortunately for Phil, for Lana Clarkson , and for others feelings, had Phi's MD in NY been ethical he would have directed Phil to AA where Phil could have received proper treatment and had he been successful with that he would maybe still be hanging out at his castle.
RIP Phil

So many people think it's "normal" to get violent when drinking. Really it's a sign that someone is a sociopath or psychopath. Alcohol effects your brain much like xanax, urges you normally hold back are no longer in the way. People who rape or abuse people under the influence most likely hold back these urges when sober. I'm a happy drinker and never once thought about raping or assaulting someone while drinking and I drink often.

 

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Phil Spector was a troubled soul for sure but he brought us some great musical talent.

 

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He had some serious hair in court.

I really like the Ronettes and the Crystals.

Rest in peace.

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