Abusive, crazy man. Genius record producer.

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reply 69

January 21, 2021 3:45 AM

One positive thing to come from COVID.

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January 17, 2021 4:08 PM

Mother told me never to speak ill of the dead, only good.

Phil Specter is dead. Good.

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January 17, 2021 4:19 PM

Rest in hell, ya old freak.

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reply 3

January 17, 2021 4:22 PM

So many of these murderers are dying lately.

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January 17, 2021 4:27 PM

My full sympathies to COVID-19.

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January 17, 2021 4:35 PM

His "Wall of Sound" was amazing. It's the only good thing I can say about him.

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January 17, 2021 4:36 PM

God, that took long enough.

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January 17, 2021 4:37 PM

R6 any specific examples?

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January 17, 2021 4:40 PM

R10: Tina Turner "River Deep, Mountain High"

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reply 11

January 17, 2021 4:43 PM

R10, go to the TMZ. There are several examples there with links to YouTube.

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reply 12

January 17, 2021 4:47 PM

He was a terrible person, but River Deep, Mountain High is still incredible to this day. It sounds of its time, but is still amazing.

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reply 13

January 17, 2021 4:50 PM

[quote]God, that took long enough.

I've been busy.

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reply 14

January 17, 2021 4:54 PM

Responsible for a lot of great tunes, many of them hits.

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reply 16

January 17, 2021 5:06 PM

It’s a shame that his technical achievements will always be overshadowed by murder, because he really was a genius.

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reply 17

January 17, 2021 5:06 PM

Yeah, I'm sure Lana Clarkson's family feels bad that Spector's musical talents aren't getting the recognition they deserve.

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reply 18

January 17, 2021 5:12 PM

Surprised he got convicted and spent so much time in prison. Rich, famous, and powerful people like him seem to get a different form of justice.

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reply 22

January 17, 2021 5:32 PM

Was he always nuts or did it happen gradually?

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reply 23

January 17, 2021 5:33 PM

Did he shoot that actress on purpose? I didn't really pay much attention to the trial.

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reply 24

January 17, 2021 5:35 PM

Always nuts. He had always been threatening people with guns, apropos of nothing.

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reply 26

January 17, 2021 5:36 PM

If he'd been born 40 years later, he could've become a Republican Congressman.

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reply 27

January 17, 2021 5:39 PM

R23 Ronnie Spector has told some pretty harrowing stories about his physical abuse and madness.

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January 17, 2021 5:40 PM

Ronnie Spector said he did various bizarre things during their marriage, such as hiding her shoes so she couldn't leave the house, and turning all the lights off to hide his balding head. He kept a golden coffin with a glass door in the basement and told her that's where she would end up if she ever left him. He was absurdly talented but a complete psycho.

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reply 29

January 17, 2021 5:46 PM

R29: I think Ronnie Spector said she escaped the mansion barefoot with her mother driving the getaway car. And Spector adopted two children for Ronnie to raise. Not telling her anything about it.

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reply 30

January 17, 2021 5:56 PM

I outlived another abusive POS!

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reply 31

January 17, 2021 6:02 PM

He was a wonderful record producer.

Socially unacceptable though.

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reply 32

January 17, 2021 6:06 PM

The most "Wall of Sound" sounding song on All Things Must Pass.

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reply 34

January 17, 2021 6:16 PM

R27 - what about Lillian Gish?

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reply 35

January 17, 2021 6:23 PM

Heaven has a new homicidal musical angel.

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reply 36

January 17, 2021 6:25 PM

He was a freak but I love a lot of the Brill building stuff. Da Do Ron Ron, And Then He Kissed Me....

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reply 39

January 17, 2021 6:28 PM

[quote] So many of these murderers are dying lately.

Heh heh victory lap too much?

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reply 40

January 17, 2021 6:32 PM

[R36] The last place where he’d be is heaven.

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reply 41

January 17, 2021 7:35 PM

Loved the songs mentioned as well as To Know Him Is To Love Him, Spanish Harlem, Corrine Corrine and Unchained Melody.

But he was an ugly man both inside and out.

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reply 42

January 17, 2021 7:44 PM

So why is it called Wall of Sound?

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reply 45

January 17, 2021 8:49 PM

He was nuts since birth. Every rock autobiography where the writer crossed paths with him is a crazy usually violent story. He absolutely hated women. He attached himself to Lenny Bruce who hated, but used him. He knew he was nuts too. I hope those last weeks were a scary struggle for him

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reply 46

January 17, 2021 8:58 PM

I for one never liked his bombastic, overblown production techniques. I was never a fan of his.

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reply 47

January 17, 2021 9:08 PM

R45 Recording different music and vocal elements separately, then mixing and layering them together in a single track.

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reply 48

January 17, 2021 9:15 PM

"Some of the best sitcoms are based around having roommates (e.g. Three's Company, Golden Girls, Friends)."

Of course you realize that sitcoms are fiction, right? They don't depict reality. Having roommates is not cute and funny and nice; it's usually a big pain in the ass.

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reply 49

January 17, 2021 9:20 PM

Can you buy a posthumous pardon?

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reply 50

January 17, 2021 9:21 PM

Thanks for your thoughts, r49.

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reply 51

January 17, 2021 9:30 PM

R46 is right. There was a chapter in the Leonard Cohen biography " I'm Your Man" and this guy was a fucking lunatic. A complete psychopath. He pulled a gun on someone during a recording session. Fucking creep.

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reply 52

January 17, 2021 9:59 PM

Oops. R49 is supposed to be the the roommates thread. Don't know how it ended up here.

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reply 54

January 17, 2021 10:10 PM

Cause you’re cute, r54.

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reply 55

January 17, 2021 10:14 PM

Now Phil is really a specter.

But darn he made some fine music.

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reply 56

January 17, 2021 10:15 PM

He had a meeting with Linda Ronstadt in the seventies I think. I'm not sure why; were they considering working together? It was written up in the Rolling Stone. I can't remember anything about it except that it went very badly and that Ronstadt, disgusted with his typical insane behavior, told him to "go back to the zoo." I don't know why she would have agreed to meet him in the first place; didn't she knw anything about him at all? Maybe she thought if they did a music collaboration she would have a big hit record and that was her motivation. Anyway, it would have been a bizarre pairing; Linda Ronstadt and Phil Spector. Wrong on so many levels.

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reply 57

January 18, 2021 3:44 AM

[quote] told him to "go back to the zoo."

Did he buy it?

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reply 58

January 18, 2021 3:48 AM

“Build me an army worthy of Mordor.”

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reply 59

January 18, 2021 3:50 AM

He pulled a gun on the Ramones and John Lennon

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reply 60

January 18, 2021 6:08 AM

Can you imagine if he'd ever done a record with Kanye West? That would have been a match made in lunatic asylum heaven.

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reply 61

January 18, 2021 6:56 AM

His wall was sound, but his mind sure wasn't.

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reply 62

January 18, 2021 7:28 AM

Was a fucking crazy nut, but had talent. Don't know of many that can produce hit after hit after hit. Sad.

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reply 63

January 18, 2021 9:55 AM

Yep. You can be gifted and still be a horrible human being. That just seems so twisted but there are probably more accomplished, successful people (sometimes you've got to be nasty to get to the top) than there are ones that are kind and empathetic. But they do exist! Be grateful for the ones we have.

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reply 64

January 18, 2021 10:37 AM

I’m getting a strong Linda Richman vibe.

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January 18, 2021 10:39 AM

[quote] Can you imagine if he'd ever done a record with Kanye West? That would have been a match made in lunatic asylum heaven.

There would’ve been a shootout right there in the studio á la Police Squad!

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reply 66

January 18, 2021 11:30 AM

A lot of famous, successful people are truly horrible human beings, but Spector was really an extreme case. He should have been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. He should have been in prison long before he was convicted of murder.

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reply 67

January 18, 2021 8:55 PM

What Spector rarities are you hoping to see freed from the vault?

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reply 68

January 20, 2021 8:06 PM

Notice that Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) said nothing to do with PS's death -- it's obvious that he knew that Phil was bad publicity after the Lana Clarkson murder, even if he said (at one time) that Phil Spector's music was his religion.

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reply 69

January 21, 2021 3:45 AM