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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...

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...

Producer Phil Spector, the legendary studio revolutionary of the ’60s and ’70s who...