The secret to his sound: an overdubbed onslaught of instruments, vocals and sound effects that changed the way pop records were recorded. The eccentric producer also influenced artists ranging from the Beach Boys to Bruce Springsteen, who emulated the Spector sound on his classic single "Born to Run." He produced 20 Top 40 hits between 19 and went on to work with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner. Spector had been hailed as a visionary for channeling Wagnerian ambition into the three-minute song, creating a sound that merged spirited vocal harmonies with lavish orchestral arrangements to produce such pop monuments as "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Be My Baby" and "He's a Rebel."
Spector died while serving his prison term.Rock producer Phil Spector, who was jailed for the 2003 murder of a Hollywood actress, has died at age 81 of COVID-19, according to media reports on Sunday. He came out of his house holding a revolver, saying “I think I killed somebody.” He was tried twice and convicted in 2009 of second-degree murder and sentenced to 19 years to life. In 2003, Spector returned to his palatial mansion in Alhambra, a city in Los Angeles County, with Lana Clarkson, an actress who worked as a hostess at a nightclub. He had twins with a girlfriend, Janis Zavala, and their son, Phil Jr., died of cancer at age 9. Spector devolved into a cycle of career revival along with scandal and tragedy. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.” Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. As I said many times while he was alive, he was a brilliant producer, but a lousy husband. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him. “The magical music we were able to make together, was inspired by our love. “Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,” Ronnie Spector said Saturday in a Facebook post. Ronnie Spector later described an abusive husband whom she said she nonetheless deeply loved, and she fled the marriage in 1972.
Spector married the Ronettes lead singer, Veronica Bennett, in 1968. “You’ll never win a beauty show, No they won’t pick you, But you’re my Miss America, I love you,” he wrote. The song was a defiant repudiation of the prevalent standards of beauty in America that marginalized Black women.
Spector’s whiz kid rise became an emblem of Black-Jewish collaboration in the 1960s His second wife was Black, and in 1969 he joined two other Jewish songwriters in writing and producing “Black Pearl” for Sonny Charles and the Checkmates. As the years passed, aficionados pressed for its reissue and it is now considered perhaps the best of the Christmas album genre, including Love’s signature song, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” His 1963 album “A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector,” featuring an array of the artists he produced, was released on the day that President John F. Classics he produced and co-wrote include “Be My Baby,” “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” and “Then He Kissed Me.” The Crystals, the Ronettes, the Righteous Brothers and Darlene Love were all products of his factory, and the giants of the era, including the Beach Boys and the Beatles, admired and emulated him. The effect was at once alienating and deeply emotional, pleadings for attention from inside a remote echo chamber. We do not share data with third party vendors. Get Washington Jewish Week Digital Magazine by email and never miss our top stories
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