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A look back at song Bryan Adams composed for other bands and singers.

Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76 Chris Morris, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Vocalist Mary Wilson, who co-founded the Supremes as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977,  died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76. Wilson’s longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz, reported that she died suddenly. The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed. Funeral servi...

Thatcham actor plays Phil Spector in West End show Tina Turner musical put on hold on opening night Trish Lee  ); The new cast for the West End production of TINA The Tina Turner Musical, nominated for 12 Tony awards including Best Musical – in its third year at the Aldwych Theatre – rehearsed for five weeks, but the show closed the night they were due to open with a paying audience due to Covid. Thatcham actor Joe Evans was playing Phil Spector. Tina famously recorded River Deep – Mount...

The music business is a hunting ground for sexual predators – and it allowed Phil Spector to thrive Many men who find fame in music react like kids in a sweetshop, with women as the sweets. Why does the industry indulge them? Phil Spector with The Ronettes, in the 1960s Credit: Redferns The moment I walked into the office of the late Tony Tyler (the heart and soul if not the editor of the New Musical Express), he took one look at the 17-year-old me and burst out laughing. A perfect size 10 wi...

Before I knew what a record producer was, I knew about Phil Spector. If you heard the Crystals’ Da Doo Ron Ron or the Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ on the radio in the Seventies

Credit: Getty 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...

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 (t...

Three words define the contribution that Phil Spector made to popular music: Wall of Sound. The New York-born producer, songwriter and autocratic auteur, who has died at the age of 81 (while serving a

Brilliant record producer and convicted murderer We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 18, 2021 — 1.57pm Normal text size 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 Youve Lost That Lovin Feeling, and whose long record of disturbing personal behaviour culminated in a murder convi...

Rock producer Phil Spector, who changed the sound of pop in the 1960s with his "Wall of Sound" recordings and was later convicted of murder, has died at the age of 81 from Covid-19.