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Phil Spector, Pop Music Hitmaker Convicted of Murder, Dies at 81 Jan 18 2021, 7:16 AM January 17 2021, 9:57 PM January 18 2021, 7:16 AM (Bloomberg) -- Phil Spector, the music producer who went from the Wall of Sound to the walls of a California prison cell, has died. He was 81. (Bloomberg) -- Phil Spector, the music producer who went from the Wall of Sound to the walls of a California prison cell, has died. He was 81. Spector died on Saturday morning at an outside hospital, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement on Sunday. A medical examiner from the S...

Updated: 18 Jan 2021, 17:25 RECORD producer Phil Spector masterminded some of music’s biggest hits - but once told an interviewer: “I have devils inside that fight me.” The man behind the ‘Wall of Sound’ - who died this weekend from Covid - would introduce himself as a genius but recognised he was prone to madness, adding: “I’m probably relatively insane.” 15 Phil Spector called himself a 'genus' but was plagued with mental health issuesCredit: Kobal Collection - Rex Features Spector’s brutal killing of Lana Clarkson turned him from the “tycoon of teen” with a £22millio...

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’s art created the world he couldn’t create for himself: a tortured, toxic and finally murderous man crafting hit after hit about idealized romance

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 ...