Phil Spector

 UK - I think Christmas is just our excuse to go full-out Phil Spector and use two drum kits and the bells and whistles," Almqvist explained to Rolling Stone. ...

By Daniel Kreps Hoping to rescue fans from another seasonal onslaught of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Jingle Bells,” the Hives have teamed up with Cyndi Lauper on a new Christmas track entitled “A Christmas Duel.” “Growing up, it was only ‘O Holy Night,’ which I really like now but being a young p...

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By tnk This classic biography and critical study of Spector's music has now been updated to include the producer's work over the following three decades up to the shooting in bizarre circumstances of actress Lana Clarkson at Spector's Los ...

 Canada - that's what I'm looking for: music that just so happens to recall the glorious wall of sound used to record A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, ...

Ramones and Phil Spector (1979) - End of the Century · Johnathan Rice & Jenny Lewis - "End of The Affair" 7.20.07 · The end of the album as I know it... Julie Moffitt - It's the End of The World (As We Know It) · R.E.M. Its the end of ...

If the phrase “Wall of Sound” has a resonance for you in a manner that has nothing to do with Phil Spector, then thank Healy.) What does this mean to you? It means that the Dark Star Orchestra has taken on board the man responsible for ...

Record producer Phil Spector was charged with murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his home in Alhambra in February 2003. (Spector is being retried after his first trial ended in a deadlocked jury. ...

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RN: I think if you consider Phil Spector and everything he was attached to, from the Ronettes, to Plastic Ono Band, to The Ramones (but not Celine Dion), and then take Brian Eno and everything he's been involved in, from Roxy Music, ...

By pjwa That insecurity is why he decided to rewrite history by bowdlerising Let It Be when he removed Phil Spector’s production-rescue job, the one thing that made the album listenable. And it’s surely why he engineered that silly hullaballoo about having some Beatles songs credited to McCart...

A police officer called by prosecutors to corroborate testimony of Phil Spector’s ex-girlfriend Thursday wound up contradicting her account, saying he saw no injuries on her and never heard her say she was pistol-whipped by the music producer.

By pjwa Spector is being retried on charges of murdering 40-year-old actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot through the mouth in Spector’s mansion in 2003. The jury in Spector’s first trial deadlocked last year on a 10-2 vote with the majority favouring conviction on second-degree murder.

By The Huffington Post News Editors Spector is being retried on charges of murdering 40-year-old actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot through the mouth in Spector's mansion in 2003. The jury in Spector's first trial deadlocked last year on a 10-2 vote with the majority favoring conviction on second-degree murder.

Testimony has opened in the Los Angeles retrial of record producer Phil Spector on charges of murdering actress Lana Clarkson.

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By news@nme.com Prosecution alleges producer has history of threatening women with guns

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The opening statement by prosecutor Alan Jackson in Mr. Spector’s retrial on a murder charge drew scrutiny from defense attorney Doron Weinberg, who called it an effort to try Mr. Spector for his character, rather than for the crime he is accused of committing. Prosecutors claim Mr. Spector...

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By Starkey But while he had the backing of John Lennon and George Harrison, McCartney was in two minds – and Spector is scathing about one of Macca’s most famous ballads. “The Long and Winding Road was a terrible recording when I first heard it,” he says.

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By Jeremy(noreply@blogger.com) Put Phil Spector, the Beatles, and New Order in a blender and out comes "Happy As Can Be." (Well, it works in my blender.) There's the spacious, bashy wall of sound, the "Please Please Me" melody, and the deadpan yet also semi-melodramatic club vibe. Oh, and maybe throw Split Enz in the blender...

By Owen Gibson Spector, 68, changed the course of music with his run of 1960s "wall of sound" hits such as Be My Baby before going on to work with the Beatles, John Lennon and the Ramones. He was interviewed for the film, to be shown tonight, for more than three-and-a-half hours at his Los Angeles castle by th...

I think it’s a very good idea; always ready to go to the record-shop to buy a cd Phil Spector produced. I hope it will also be available in Belgium. Good luck to Phil Spector and make us very happy with your fabulous ”Wall of sound” ...

By Stan Bull(noreply@blogger.com) For 25 years Phil Spector lived in a mansion in Beverly Hills. It was there that he masterminded his conquest of the pop charts in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s been 4 years since actress Lana Clarkson, a B-movie actress and model, was shot in the head in that same mansion. It was there that the Police...

By nobody@flickr.com (Al B Sure Unibrow Foundation) Because of the "Wall of Sound," the great material Phil had access to, and the wonderful artists who performed the songs, the hits churned out of Gold Star. Some of them I can remember off hand are "He's a Rebel" and "Da Doo Ron Ron" by the Crystals; "Be My Baby" by the Ronnettes; "Zip-A-Dee Doo...

Roy Orbison was a superhero of song. Unassuming in appearance, he became someone extraordinary when his weeping tenor took flight, rising from deep, dark places on anguished ballads like "Only the Lonely" and "Crying." Orbison rebuilt the stark balladry of Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak...

By pjwa Spector’s influence on pop music is incalculable. He either co-wrote, produced or performed (or, in many cases, all of the above) on the most enduring songs of the 20th century. This is no hyperbole: “Spanish Harlem,” “On Broadway,” “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Be My Baby,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ F...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler said a trial date is needed, whether he presides or not. Lawyers for the music producer are challenging Fidler on grounds that he is biased against Spector. ...

By pjwa It all started with a challenge from John Lennon. As his epic TV history of pop music is reissued on DVD, Tony Palmer recalls dodging bullets, facing a furious Aretha Franklin, and surviving Russian roulette with Phil Spector PHIL SPECTOR LEONARD COHEN

By address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Stefan) As a bonus, I give you his previous album, "Streetlife Serenade," a bitter album clearly stating he had enough with California, enough with the music industry, enough with being a sensitive singer-songwriter. One that lead him to the magnum opus I consider "Turnstiles" to be.

By DrHGuy When Leonard Cohen derides Memories, he isn’t apologizing for the song; if that were the case, he wouldn’t have included Memories in the sets he played at his concerts in 1979, 1980, and 1985.6 If Leonard Cohen is apologizing for anything, it’s for his enjoyment of a performance that is a sp...

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Phil Spector still in talks to hire new lawyer for second murder trial  France - Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler read two reports submitted by attorney Christopher Plourd but kept them sealed because they detail Spector's ...

Prosecutors had charged Spector under a second-degree murder theory that did not require premeditation or intent. Rachelle Spector, 27, whose Web site says she is a singer, songwriter and trombone player, married Spector nearly a year ago and was with him every day of the trial.

By Seth That instruction said that in order to convict Spector the jury had to find that "the defendant must have committed an act that caused the death of Lana Clarkson," and it specified the act was pointing a gun at her, which resulted in the gun entering her mouth while in Spector's hand.

By Seth The Phil Spector jury still sits deadlocked, one faction firmly convinced the pouffy-wigged eccentric shot Barbarian Queen star Lana Clarkson in the mouth, the other feeling Spector was merely the victim of a convoluted self-murder plot for which he'd unwittingly provide a suicide-...

By Daniel Kreps Kenney-Baden will have another hour’s worth of closing arguments, followed by the prosecution’s estimated two-hour rebuttal closing argument. After that, Phil Spector’s fate enters the jury’s hands for the remainder of Friday. If the jurors fail to come to a verdict by end of court toda...

By Daniel Kreps For his closing act, Jackson screened a montage of Clarkson in multiple roles throughout her career. The video, soundtracked by Steely Dan’s “Peg,” casted Clarkson as a happy, hard-working actress, and not the suicidal failure presented by the Spector defense team.

By Seth Cutler made the announcement as the trial resumed for what was expected to be the last day of testimony. It wasn't immediately clear if he quit or if Spector fired him. The judge asked Spector if everything that Cutler said was accurate. That is correct," Spector answered in a raspy voice.

By Stuart Heritage Since it began, the prosecution in the Phil Spector murder trial has done a tip-top job of painting Phil Spector to be a woman-hating, gun-loving, murder-confessing nut - but not tip-top enough to stop Phil Spector trying to get the case dismissed.

By Carolyn Kellogg Doesn't seem too hard. Imagine you had a driver to get you home. Could you keep up? Prosecution: assume that this person did show signs of inebriation. Given all those parameters, would you say pharmacologically, could they be intoxicated?

By Stuart Heritage more…) The Phil Spector murder trial seems to be slowly grinding to a halt, with witness after witness doing nothing more interesting than pointing out that Lana Clarkson was depressed in the days and weeks before she died. That was exactly the case yesterday when Lana Clarkson's friend P...

By Carolyn Kellogg Whoa Nellie! She just said MURDER! Honey, the defense asserts that Lana Clarkson committed suicide. On Tuesday morning defense attorney Roger Rosen tried to undo the damage with Punkin on the stand, but it fell pretty flat. Is it possible that spacey, amnesiac Punkin Pie is actually the sm...

By Carolyn Kellogg The facts: Phil Spector, motherf***ingawesome record producer and somewhat legendary kook, is on trial for the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson, a struggling actress. One Feburary night, Spector ended up at the House of Blues' VIP Room -- oh, sorry, "Foundation Room" -- where Clarkson was w...

By Seth Throughout the Phil Spector trial, we have learned much about the accused's sociopathic past, filled with misogynist death threats and loaded handguns produced at the slightest provocation. But what of the victim? Lana Clarkson is most often referred to as a B-movie actress, best know...

By Daniel Kreps Two months into the trial for Lana Clarkson’s 2003 murder, we’ve learned a lot about famed music producer Phil Spector. He likes strange wigs, living in a castle and pointing firearms at women. But does he also wash his hands in a toilet?

By Humuhumu It has already been widely reported that before (allegedly) killing Lana Clarkson, famed record producer and coiffure aficionado Phil Spector paid a visit to Trader Vic’s in Beverly Hills, where he downed some Navy Grogs. He was apparently a bit of a regular there. When he made his way to Da...

By Stuart Heritage And that's what everyone in court for the continuing Phil Spector murder trial discovered yesterday, when the snub-nosed .38 Special that fired the shot that killed Lana Clarkson was shown to the jury, along with several other guns that police found in Phil Spector's home following her d...

By Glen Boyd His former wife -- the singer Ronnie Spector, with whom he also produced several landmark recordings with the Ronettes -- is said to have left him over such behaviour. Spector is also apparently no stranger to guns. Just ask the Ramones, who according to music legend, were themselves held a...

The testimony in the Phil Spector case took an unforeseen hiatus today, as defense attorney Bruce "Murder on Their Minds" Cutler has fallen ill. (In other news, high stress and hopelessness have been proven to wreak havoc on the immune system.) While we wait for the next disturbing chapter...

By Dave Lifton Spector begins the 1970s strong, thanks to The Beatles.  He sorts through the mess of Let It Be -- earning him his only Grammy -- to produce something listenable and guides John Lennon's and George Harrison's first solo albums, although later attempts to work with Lennon result in disaste...

By trikc MORE nauseating stories of Phil Spector's alleged abuse toward women are emerging as the legendary music producer goes on trial today for the 2003 shotgun death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. Los Angeles magazine reports that in 1993 Spector smacked his houseguest, Joan Rivers' the...

Two weeks after L.A. County sheriff's detectives determined that the death of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson was indeed a murder, the prime suspect in the shooting, legendary record producer Phil Spector, had his $1 million bail extended until November 3. The L.A. district attorney’s offic...