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Phil Spector, music producer convicted of murder, dies at 81 after contracting COVID-19 [Los Angeles Times :: BC-SPECTOR-OBIT-1ST-LEDE:LA] LOS ANGELES Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but spent his final years behind bars after shooting and killing an aspiring actress in his Alhambra mansion, has died in a hospital after becoming infected with the coronavirus. He was 81. Spector died Saturday of natural causes, said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office will investigate his death, the department said. ....
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 Lost That Lovin’ Feelin” erupted from radios across America, the acclaimed record producer was a brooding, manic man with a white-hot temper and a fondness for gunplay, all of which would manifest itself on a winter morning in 2003 when he fatally shot actress and nightclub hostess Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his castle-like mansion in Alhambra. ....
Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but became notorious ....
If the art s maniacal, I m maniacal : Phil Spector, in 1966 Credit: Getty NB. This piece first ran in February 2003, and has been republished following the death of Phil Spector, aged 81 I have not been well, says Phil Spector, choosing his words carefully. I was crippled inside. Emotionally. Insane is a hard word. I wasn t insane, but I wasn t well enough to function as a regular part of society, so I didn t. I chose not to. He pauses. I have devils inside that fight me. The classical music that has been playing throughout our conversation ebbs and flows. Sibelius, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. Spector is responsible for producing some of the greatest pop music ever made: Be My Baby by the Ronettes; You ve Lost That Lovin Feelin by the Righteous Brothers; River Deep - Mountain High by Ike & Tina Turner; Imagine by John Lennon; My Sweet Lord by George Harrison. But he no longer listens to those songs. ....
Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but became notorious ....