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Phil Spector, famed music producer & murderer, dies
New York Times / Jan 19, 2021, 07:51 IST
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NEW YORK: 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 hospitalisedtaken to San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, California, on December 31 and intubated in January, she said.
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Jan 18, 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) 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. He was 81.
California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital. 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.
While most sources give Spector’s birth date as 1940, it was listed as 1939 in court documents following his arrest. His lawyer subsequently confirmed that date to The Associated Press.
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As the creator of the ‘wall of sound’ production style, Phil Spector‘s influence on the foundations of pop music undoubtedly rivals that of the very top tier of pop’s most legendary figures. Yet a long history of abusive and manipulative behaviour, including threatening gunplay, culminated in the 2009 conviction of the murder of actor Lana Clarkson, which saw him die in prison and will justifiably overshadow his many achievements.
Spector – who died today aged 81 – was born Harvey Phillip Spector in New York in 1939. His forays into pop music began in the late ‘50s as a member of vocal group The Teddy Bears, who gave him his first US number one in 1958 with the million-selling ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’, a phrase that was carved on his father’s gravestone. At the same time he studied production at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood and, following further success with his co-write on Ben E King’s ‘Spanish Harlem’, began working as apprentice to
Died: January 16, 2021. WRITING in his Bob Dylan Encyclopedia some 14 years ago, author Michael Gray, observing that Phil Spector was very young when his father took his own life, says that that event, more than any other, “explains” Spector’s lifetime “of disturbed behaviour. Mad, inspired record producer; seven-stone weakling; gun-toting paranoiac; teen tantrum king; abusive husband and father: this is Phil Spector on a good day”. A few years later, in 2009, after a retrial (the first one, in 2007, had ended in a hung jury), Spector was found guilty of the second-degree murder, in 2003, of Lana Clarkson, an actress he had met the previous evening, at his turreted mansion in a Los Angeles suburb. Clarkson had died of a gunshot wound to the mouth. Spector was sentenced to between 19 years and life. In 2014, in view of his declining health, he was moved from the California State Prison to a healthcare facility; he died at the weekend, aged 81, from complications of C
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