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Phil Spector, music producer convicted of murder, dies at 81 after contracting COVID-19 [Los Angeles Times :: BC-SPECTOR-OBIT-1ST-LEDE:LA]
LOS ANGELES Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but spent his final years behind bars after shooting and killing an aspiring actress in his Alhambra mansion, has died in a hospital after becoming infected with the coronavirus. He was 81.
Spector died Saturday of natural causes, said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office will investigate his death, the department said.
Grammy-Winning Producer And Convicted Murderer Phil Spector Dies in Prison From COVID-19 Published January 18th, 2021 - 09:44 GMT
Al Pacino played him in the 2013 movie, Phil Spector.
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Phil Spector died this weekend
Famed music producer Phil Spector, whose legacy was marred by his conviction in the 2003 murder of actress and club hostess Lana Clarkson, has died. Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m.
on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff s Office, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement Sunday.
Rock producer Phil Spector, who was convicted of murder, dies of COVID-19 at 81
Phil Spector was convicted of murder for the 2003 murder of a Hollywood actress. Reuters
Updated: Jan 18, 2021, 12:08 PM IST
Rock producer Phil Spector, who changed the sound of pop music in the 1960s with his
Wall of Sound recordings and was convicted of murder for the 2003 murder of a Hollywood actress, has died at age 81 of COVID-19, according to authorities and media reports.
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.
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