Brilliant record producer and convicted murderer
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January 18, 2021 — 1.57pm
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PHIL SPECTOR: 1939 - 2021
Phil Spector, a music producer and songwriter who came to dominate the pop charts in the early 1960s with his bombastic-symphonic "wall of sound" in hits such as
Be My Baby and
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, and whose long record of disturbing personal behaviour culminated in a murder conviction in 2009, died January 16 aged 80 or 81.
California state prison officials announced that Spector, who was serving a prison sentence, died at an "outside hospital" but did not provide further details.