Phil Spector, the imprisoned music legend, spent his last days suffering with Covid. The music producer Phil Spector at a court hearing in 2004. Since 2009, he had been serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson, a nightclub hostess he took home after a night of drinking in 2003.Credit...Pool photo by Nick Ut Jan. 17, 2021 Covid-19 has taken the life of Phil Spector, one of the most influential and successful record producers in rock ’n’ roll, who spent the last chapter of his life in prison for murder. Ms. Spector said she visited her father the day before his death at San Joaquin General Hospital, near Modesto, Calif. He was not conscious and “appeared to be suffering,” she said.