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Los Angeles: The rock producer Phil Spector, who changed the sound of pop music in the 1960s with his Wall of Sound recordings and was convicted of the 2003 murder of a Hollywood actress, has died after contracting COVID-19 at the age of 81.
Spector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965 and went on to work with the Beatles on
Let It Be, as well as Leonard Cohen, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Music producer Phil Spector during his sentencing for second-degree murder in Los Angeles in May 2009.
Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died.
Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion on the edge of Los Angeles. After a trial in 2009, he was sentenced to 19 years to life.