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Phil Spector, music producer convicted of murder, dies at 81 after contracting Covid-19 Music producer Phil Spector looks up during his murder trial in Superior Court July 10, 2007, in Los Angeles. (Gabriel Bouys-Pool/Getty Images/TNS) LOS ANGELES — For all the hit songs he drove up the charts, for all the power and wealth he amassed, for all the admiration he drew as he rearranged the pop music landscape, there was a darkness deep in Phil Spector’s soul that would forever shadow his genius. Even as anthems such the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” and the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lo...

Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but became notorious

Darlene Love, who recorded "He's a Rebel" and "(Today I Met) the Boy I'm Gonna Marry" with Phil Spector, reacts to the producer's death.

Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but became notorious

Darlene Love performs at a Christmas tree lighting in New York City, 2010. (Andy Kropa/Getty Images) Count on an experienced performer like Darlene Love to save the hits for the end. That's precisely what she does in her 1998 memoir My Name Is Love (buy now), which concludes with a list of the major songs she's performed on: "More hits than Elvis and the Beatles combined," she notes, imagining the narration over an infomercial about her life. Just the highlights include "Chain Gang" (Sam Cooke, 1959), "He's a Rebel" (credited to the Crystals, 1962), "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" (Bob B. ...