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Phil Spector made his mark as a music producer before being convicted of murder, but his death surfaced conflicted feelings about his life and legacy.

But Spector was different. At the start, on The Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him is To Love Him” -- a rephrasing of the epitaph from his father’s gravestone that Spector turned into a Hot 100 No. 1 in 1958 -- his sound was not so very far removed from the other recordings of the day, many of which carried the spacious aura of the rooms in which they were cut, investing early rock and pop with the mystical sense that new frontiers were being explored. Eventually though, he recognized how to make that aura the centerpiece of his records. You can hear how he did just that in the very first hit ...

Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion on the edge of Los Angeles. After a trial in 2009, he was sentenced to 19 years to life.

Rolling Stone Phil Spector, Famed ‘Wall of Sound’ Producer Convicted of Murder, Dead at 81 Revolutionary producer behind some of pop music’s most enduring songs dies from natural causes while serving prison sentence By Michael Ochs Archives Phil Spector, the monumentally influential music producer whose “Wall of Sound” style revolutionized the way rock music was recorded in the early 1960s, died Saturday at the age of 81. Spector’s life was tumultuous and ultimately tragic; as groundbreaking as his studio accomplishments were, those achievements were all but overs...

Phil Spector, the prolific music producer famous for his "Wall of Sound" — and infamous as a convicted killer — died Saturday at 81.