Spector was, above all else, a murderer who had loads of abuse allegations levied against him. According to his ex-wife, Ronnie Spector, he kept a gold, glass-plated coffin in the basement and used it to intimidate her into staying with him. Dee Dee Ramone alleged that Spector pulled a gun on him during a recording session. Other artists who have accused him of holding them at gunpoint include John Lennon, Leonard Cohen and Debbie Harry.
Said Ronnie in her 1990 memoir
Be My Baby on her decision to leave her ex-husband in 1972: I knew that if I didn t leave I was going to die there.”
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Music producer best known for his research on The Wall Of Sound technique, Phil Spector has died aged 81, according to reports by TMZ. He was known for his career producing music in the 1960s. But how did Phil Spector die?
Phil Spector: Famed music producer, convicted murderer dead at 81
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Music producer Phil Spector in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Los Angeles, Friday, May 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)
By: The Associated Press & Scripps National
Posted at 8:46 AM, Jan 17, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-17 12:04:12-05
LOS ANGELES â Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his âWall of Soundâ method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81.
California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital.
Born in New York City in 1939, Specter rose to fame in the early 1960s by working with artists like Ronnie Crawford and the Top Notes. Throughout the decade, helped forever transform the sound of pop music through his innovative Wall of Sound method, which employed dozens of microphones to capture unique sounds.
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Phil Spector, 81, is an American former record producer and musician, who developed the Wall Of Sound technique and worked with The Beatles. He has reportedly died of coronavirus complications while in prison yesterday, according to TMZ.