(He was inducted by both Ike and Tina Turner; Spector had told neither that the other had also been invited.) Of Spector-related productions, Wilson has been involved with covers of "Be My Baby", "Chapel of Love", "Just Once in My Life", "There's No Other (Like My Baby)", "Then He Kissed Me", "Talk to Me", "Why Don't They Let Us Fall in Love", "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "I Can Hear Music", and "This Could Be the Night".[143]. [160] Bennett was the lead singer of the girl group the Ronettes (another group Spector managed and produced). He had become a gloomy figure around this time. When I went to see Ike play at the Cinegrill in the '90s ... there were at least five Tina Turners on the stage performing that night, any one of them could have been Tina Turner. [124] He would have been eligible for parole in 2024.[117]. 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. [112] The case went to the jury on March 26, 2009, and 18 days later, on April 13, the jury returned a guilty verdict. He never held us hostage. Their next single, "I Don't Need You Anymore", reached number 91. After both Liberty Records and Capitol Records turned down the master of "Be My Boy" by the Paris Sisters, Sill formed a new label, Gregmark Records, with Lee Hazlewood, and released it. [138][139] Alternative rock performers Cocteau Twins,[140] My Bloody Valentine,[136] and the Jesus and Mary Chain[136] have all cited Spector as an influence. Phil Spector's four children are expected to be in line to receive shares of the killer's $50million fortune following his death from coronavirus complications last week. Spector was the decade's most successful record producer[6] and his multi-artist compilation album A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records (1963) is widely considered to be the finest Christmas record of all time,[7], In the early 1970s, Spector produced the Beatles' album Let It Be (1970) and several solo records by the band's John Lennon and George Harrison. [50] After impressing with his production of John Lennon's solo single "Instant Karma! Sound is its own language.”. [10] Other contemporaries influenced by Spector include George Morton, Sonny & Cher, the Rolling Stones, the Four Tops, Mark Wirtz, the Lovin' Spoonful, and the Beatles. In 1966, the baroque pop epic he considered his masterpiece, Ike & Tina Turner’s “River Deep — Mountain High,” stalled at Number 88 in the U.S. (though it would hit Number Three in the U.K.) A resentful Spector secluded himself in his Hollywood mansion for two years, emerging only to appear briefly as a drug dealer in the classic counterculture film Easy Rider. The record, which actually featured Tina Turner without Ike Turner, was successful in Britain, reaching number 3. Others in this group include Quincy Jones (1960s, 1970s, and 1980s), George Martin (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s), Michael Omartian (1970s, 1980s and 1990s), and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (1980s, 1990s, and 2000s). Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic paired Spector with future Broadway star Jean DuShon for "Talk to Me", the B-side of which was "Tired of Trying", written by DuShon. [159] Spector named a record company after Merar, Annette Records. He trembles. However, it contains some of the best known and most successful Ramones singles, such as "Rock 'n' Roll High School", "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? Jason Pierce of Spiritualized has cited Spector as a major influence on his Let It Come Down album. ", sfn error: no target: CITEREFHamelman2009 (. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this. [161][167], On September 1, 2006, Spector, while on bail and awaiting trial, married his third wife Rachelle Short, who was 26 at the time. Ronnie Spector, Phil Spector's ex-wife and singer of many of his hits, remembers him as a 'brilliant producer but lousy husband." [28] Also at Fairfax, he joined a loose-knit community of aspiring musicians, including Lou Adler, Bruce Johnston, Steve Douglas, and Sandy Nelson. ", which went to number 3,[51] Spector was invited by Lennon and George Harrison to take on the task of turning the Beatles' abandoned Let It Be recording sessions into a usable album. Father. Spector took the title of his first production, “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” from the inscription on his father’s gravestone. After a falling out with Warners, he formed Phil Spector International, reissuing an album of his classic Sixties recordings that had long been out of print. Spector was once again represented by attorney Jennifer Lee Barringer. [79] Amid the party atmosphere, Spector brandished his handguns and at one point fired a shot while Lennon was recording. Legend has it that Spector carried a gun during the Ramones sessions and even threatened band members. By the time "He's a Rebel" went to number 1, Lester Sill was out of the company, and Spector had Philles all to himself. I Could Have Loved You So Well", "Let Me Be The One by The Paris Sisters. It's especially telling that next to Ike, Phil Spector comes off like a more sensitive collaborator when they record 1966's "River Deep - Mountain High" with him. [129] Sometimes a pair of strings or horns would be double-tracked multiple times to sound like an entire string or horn section. [88] Guitarist Johnny Ramone later commented on working with Spector on the recording of the album, "It really worked when he got to a slower song like 'Danny Says'—the production really worked tremendously. Legend has it that Spector carried a gun during the Ramones sessions and even threatened band members. Few beside Turner knew that off-stage he was a thin-skinned tyrant. [77] The sessions were held in Los Angeles, with Lennon allowing Spector free rein as producer for the first time,[78] but were characterized by substance abuse and chaotic arrangements. [200][201], American record producer, songwriter and convicted murderer, 1939–1959: Background and the Teddy Bears, 1959–1962: Early production work, Philles Records, and the Crystals, 1962–1965: Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, the Ronettes, and the Righteous Brothers, 1970–1973: Comeback and Beatles collaborations, 1974–1980: Near-fatal accident, Warner-Spector Records, Leonard Cohen, and the Ramones, 2003–2021: Clarkson murder, imprisonment, and death. [101] In the meantime, Spector produced singer-songwriter Hargo Khalsa's track (known professionally as Hargo) "Crying for John Lennon", which originally appears on Hargo's 2006 album In Your Eyes. Dee Dee Ramone claimed that Spector once pulled a gun on him when he tried to leave a session. He's timeless. He was originally supposed to produce the entire album, but was fired owing to personal and creative differences. Spector returned to the music world in 1969. [24][25] In 1953, Spector's mother moved the family to Los Angeles where she found work as a seamstress. [130], According to guitarist Stevie Van Zandt of the E Street Band, Spector was a "genius irredeemably conflicted". [103], In early 2007, Spector wrote a letter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame protesting their induction of the Ronettes. [148][149], Spector's first marriage was in 1963 to Annette Merar, lead vocalist of the Spectors Three, a 1960s pop trio formed and produced by Spector. In the opening moments of the HBO documentary “Tina," Tina Turner doesn't just command the stage as she's belting out “Ask Me How I Feel” for a giant stadium of fans. [94] Rolling Stone reported, "Spector hit the stage bopping madly to the strains of the Ronettes' 'Be My Baby,' flanked by three beefy bodyguards who practically elbowed Tina out of the way. In their television appearances, he seems the quiet, supportive sideman. [141], Many have tried to emulate Spector's methods, and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys—a fellow adherent of mono recording—considered Spector his main competition as a studio artist. Spector commented that "Ike made Tina the jewel she was. “I’ve been a very tortured soul.” But the superproducer’s most life-changing legal battle was yet to come. Their next release, "Uptown", made it to number 13. With heels stomping and her hair waving, she owns the stage to such a degree that you half expect bank lenders to materialize by the footlights to sign over the deed. Harvey Phillip Spector (December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) was an American record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his innovative recording practices and entrepreneurship in the 1960s, followed decades later by his two trials and conviction for murder in the 2000s. [61], Spector was made head of A&R for Apple Records. [63][64] Spector was convinced that the Harrison-written single would be a major hit,[65] and its poor commercial performance was one of the biggest disappointments of his career. Now securely back in the production saddle, Spector hooked up with the Beatles. In 1977, Spector produced Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man, a marked contrast to the singer-songwriter’s more somber acoustic affairs. He successfully fought to retain the U.K. copyright to the music and lyrics of “To Know Him Is to Love Him” in 1997. He was 81. The group’s “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” sold over 2 million copies and became Philles’ third Number One hit. [171][172] He had been an inmate at the California Health Care Facility (a prison hospital) in Stockton since October 2013. The Hot 100 Chart", "Not Too Young To Get Married by Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans", "River Deep-Mountain High by Ike & Tina Turner Featuring Tina", "Sonny Charles And The Checkmates, Ltd. During the conversation, images from the murder court case are juxtaposed with live appearances of his tracks on television programs from the 1960s and 1970s, along with subtitles giving critical interpretations of some of his song production values. The result was the Beatles final studio album, Let It Be. [48], In 1969, Spector made a brief return to the music business by signing a production deal with A&M Records. Phil Spector is a 2013 American made-for-television biographical drama film directed and written by David Mamet.The film is based on the murder trials of music producer, songwriter and musician Phil Spector and was released in the United States by HBO Films, premiering on HBO on March 24, 2013. 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Her body was found slumped in a chair with a single gunshot wound to her mouth. Spector spent much of the next decade in court. Fittingly, Lennon also had Spector, the creator of the, Prior to his car accident, Spector had formed a new label, Warner-Spector, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers, for which he recorded Cher, Harry Nilsson, Darlene Love and a young singer named Jerri Bo Keno, whom he’d hoped to make a star. Movie review: 'Tina' documentary is the final word from a legendary survivor. Just a year after forming the label, Spector bought out Lester Sill’s share. [115] He was immediately taken into custody and, on May 29, 2009, was sentenced to 19 years to life in the California state prison system. Sign up for our newsletter. In late 1961, Spector and Sill formed Philles Records. One of the two Spector-produced songs on the album, the title track, was a UK top 10 single (the other single being "White Dove"). Spector returned to the music world in 1969. In the 1960s, Wilson thought of Spector as "the single most influential producer. Spector also greatly preferred singles to albums, describing LPs as "two hits and ten pieces of junk", reflecting both his commercial methods and those of many other producers at the time. The most probable and significant reason for his withdrawal, according to biographer Dave Thompson, was that in 1974 he was seriously injured when he was thrown through the windshield of his car in a crash in Hollywood. [126], While Spector directed the overall sound of his recordings, he took a relatively hands-off approach to working with the musicians themselves[citation needed] (usually a core group that became known as the Wrecking Crew, including session players such as Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel, Steve Douglas, Carol Kaye, Roy Caton, Glen Campbell, and Leon Russell), delegating arrangement duties to Jack Nitzsche and having Sonny Bono oversee the performances, viewing these two as his "lieutenants". In early 1981, shortly after the death of John Lennon, he temporarily re-emerged to co-produce Yoko Ono's Season of Glass. "[104] On March 19, Spector's murder trial began. And he made something out of it. The songs he selected were dizzyingly romantic, typically written by the greatest of the Brill Building songwriters, and his classic recordings relied on the brilliant contributions of a set of musicians dubbed the Wrecking Crew – drummer Hal Blaine’s four-beat intro to the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” is one of the most distinctive song intros in rock & roll history. To attain this signature sound, Spector gathered large groups of musicians (playing some instruments not generally used for ensemble playing, such as electric and acoustic guitars) playing orchestrated parts—often doubling and tripling many instruments playing in unison—for a fuller sound. Then I knew what it meant. ... Phil Spector comes off like a more sensitive collaborator when they … Spector also released solo material by Darlene Love in 1963. The album's title track hit number 3. Spector took the title of his first production, “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” from the inscription on his father’s gravestone. [110], The retrial of Spector for murder in the second degree began on October 20, 2008,[111] with Judge Fidler again presiding; the retrial was not televised. At 21 years old, Phil Spector was a millionaire. Their first single, "There's No Other (Like My Baby)" was a success, hitting number 20. A Ronettes single, "You Came, You Saw, You Conquered" flopped, but Spector returned to the Hot 100 with "Black Pearl", by Sonny Charles and the Checkmates, Ltd., which reached number 13. [22] The similarities in name and background of the grandfathers have led to speculation by Spector that his parents were first cousins. [108] That same month, Spector attended the funeral of Ike Turner. Spector himself called his technique "a Wagnerian approach to rock & roll: little symphonies for the kids". – The Ronettes (August 1, 1964, #34), "Hung on you" – The Righteous Brothers (August 21, 1965, #47), This page was last edited on 22 April 2021, at 23:22. [144] Another example is the Forum, a studio project of Les Baxter, which produced a minor hit in 1967 with "River Is Wide". George Harrison not only asked Spector to produce his triple-album, albums that had an uncharacteristically spare sound for Spector. He was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center on the night of March 31, 1974, suffering serious head injuries that required several hours of surgery, with over 300 stitches to his face and more than 400 to the back of his head. [100] De Souza added that he saw Spector come out of the back door of the house with a gun in his hand. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in pop music history[1] and as the first auteur of the music industry for the unprecedented control he had over every phase of the recording process. According to Bennett, Spector sabotaged her career by forbidding her to perform, and she escaped from the mansion barefoot with the help of her mother in 1972. Spector’s death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The result was the Beatles final studio album. [74], Harrison and Spector started work on Harrison's Living in the Material World album in October 1972, but Spector's unreliability soon led to Harrison dismissing him from the project. [58] The triple LP yielded two major hits:[59] "My Sweet Lord" (number 1) and "What Is Life" (number 10). Stream new movie releases and classic favorites on HBO.com or on your device with an HBO app. "[169], In the first criminal trial for the Clarkson murder, defense expert and forensic pathologist Dr. Vincent DiMaio, M.D. After Cohen had laid down practice vocal tracks, Spector mixed the album in studio sessions, rather than allowing Cohen to take a role in the mixing, as Cohen had previously done. A re-release of the single re-charted on the Billboard Hot 100, and went to number one on the Adult Contemporary charts. Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg also participated in the background vocals on "Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On". asserted that Spector might be suffering from Parkinson's disease, stating, "Look at Mr. Spector. Spector filed for divorce in April 2016, claiming irreconcilable differences. ", "Phil Spector, famed music producer and murderer, dies at 81", "All those Holiday/Christmas Songs: So Many Jewish Songwriters! [87], Spector also produced the much-publicized Ramones album End of the Century in 1979. The first time Spector put the same amount of effort into an LP as he did into 45s was when he utilized the full Philles roster and the Wrecking Crew to make what he felt would become a hit for the 1963 Christmas season. When he was 18, Spector caught the eye of veteran L.A. producer Lester Sill, who instructed Spector to go to New York and work with Sill’s former proteges, the successful songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Despite telling his chauffeur that “I think I just shot her,” as the chauffeur told police in an affidavit, Spector later recanted this, telling authorities and saying in interviews that Clarkson “may have accidentally taken her own life.” Spector was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Harvey Philip Spector was born in the Bronx on December 26, 1939. Spector released another single by Ike & Tina Turner, "I'll Never Need More Than This", while negotiating a deal to move Philles to A&M Records in 1967. Though Spector’s focus was on crafting 45s, at the end of 1963 he released his only classic LP: A Christmas Gift for You From Philles Records. A new Ronettes single, “You Came, You Saw, You Conquered,” flopped, but that same year he also released Sonny Charles and the Checkmates’ “Black Pearl,” a Number 13 hit. On Twitter, he wrote: "[Spector] was the ultimate example of the art always being better than the artist ... [He] made some of the greatest records in history based on the salvation of love while remaining incapable of giving or receiving love his whole life. In the early 1960s, he briefly worked with Atlantic Records' R&B artists Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker. [37] It was while working at Liberty that he heard a song written by Gene Pitney, for whom he had produced a number 41 hit, "Every Breath I Take", a year earlier. He typically collaborated with arranger Jack Nitzsche, engineer Larry Levine, and a de facto house band later known as "the Wrecking Crew". The band still name-checked Spector in the song "It's Not My Place (in the 9 to 5 World)" on their next album, A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records, Music producer Phil Spector convicted of murder, And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts And Madness, Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica, "Phil Spector guilty of murdering actress Lana Clarkson", "A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector", "Music; They're Recording, but Are They Artists? [32], While recording the Teddy Bears' album, Spector met Lester Sill, a former promotion man who was a mentor to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. [53] Released a month after the Beatles' break-up, the album topped the U.S. and UK charts. [146], The Los Angeles-based new wave band Wall of Voodoo takes their name from Spector's Wall of Sound. Now securely back in the production saddle, Spector hooked up with the Beatles. [100], Spector remained free on $1 million bail while awaiting trial. "[131], Spector is often called the first auteur among musical artists[8][132] for acting not only as a producer, but also the creative director, writing or choosing the material, supervising the arrangements, conducting the vocalists and session musicians, and masterminding all phases of the recording process. ‘Shadow & Bone’ Author, Showrunner & Star Open Up About Why Alina's Race Was Changed From The Books — Shadow and Bone fans are well aware that the race of main character Alina Starkov was changed from the books for the new Netflix series, and the showrunner Eric Heisserer and author Leigh Bardugo are revealing why. In This Article: We want to hear from you! Spector was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. [99] Spector told Esquire in July 2003 that Clarkson's death was an "accidental suicide" and that she "kissed the gun". Few if any could ever match Turner as a performer. [73] Lennon and Ono's "Happy Xmas" single similarly stalled in sales upon its initial release, but later became a fixture on radio station playlists around Christmas. "[55], For Harrison's multiplatinum album All Things Must Pass (number 1, 1970), Spector helped provide a symphonic ambience,[56] although his health issues meant that after recording the basic tracks, he was absent from the project until the mixing stage. '"[165][166] Donté described himself as coming "from a very sick, twisted, dysfunctional family. Spector emerged briefly for a cameo as himself in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie (1967) and as a drug dealer in the film Easy Rider (1969). [46] The deal did not materialize,[47] and Spector subsequently lost enthusiasm for his label and the recording industry. [34] Leiber and Stoller recommended Spector to produce Ray Peterson's "Corrine, Corrina", which reached number 9 in January 1961. But Spector’s productions were increasingly time-consuming and ambitious – some even said bloated. Revolutionary producer behind some of pop music’s most enduring songs dies from natural causes while serving prison sentence. It also yielded the number 1 U.S. single "The Long and Winding Road". … I never knew ‘What goes around, comes around,’ until he went to prison. "He's a Rebel" was due to be released on Liberty by Vikki Carr, but Spector rushed into Gold Star Studios and recorded a cover version using Darlene Love and the Blossoms on lead vocals. [127] Spector frequently used songs from songwriters employed at the Brill Building (Trio Music) and at 1650 Broadway (Aldon Music), such as the teams of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and Gerry Goffin and Carole King. [26] Spector attended John Burroughs Junior High School (now John Burroughs Middle School) on Wilshire Boulevard, then in 1954 transferred to Fairfax High School. [98], On February 3, 2003, Spector shot actress Lana Clarkson in the mouth while in his mansion (the Pyrenees Castle) in Alhambra, California. Following a hung jury that leaned heavily toward a guilty verdict in September 2007, Spector underwent a second murder trial that begin in October 2008, which resulted in a conviction on second-degree murder charges. He also speaks about the musical instincts that led him to create some of his most enduring hit records, from "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" to "River Deep, Mountain High", as well as Let It Be, along with criticisms he feels he has had to deal with throughout his life. "[95] He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 1997 and he received the Grammys Trustees Award in 2000. [125] This is perceptible in many if not all of Spector's recordings, from the percussion in many of his hit songs: shakers, güiros (gourds), and maracas in "Be My Baby" and the son montuno in "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (heard clearly in the song's bridge, played by session bassist Carol Kaye, while the same repeating refrain is played on harpsichord by Larry Knechtel). In the 1990s and 2000s, the album enjoyed a resurgence among the indie rock cognoscenti. In 1968, he married Ronnie Bennett; in her 1990 memoir, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette, she depicted Spector as an abusive husband prone to eccentric if not outright insane behavior. Prior to his car accident, Spector had formed a new label, Warner-Spector, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers, for which he recorded Cher, Harry Nilsson, Darlene Love and a young singer named Jerri Bo Keno, whom he’d hoped to make a star. Get your Articles fix with Mojo. [84] His head injuries, Thompson suggests, were the reason that Spector began his habit of wearing outlandish wigs in later years. During the trial, several women serving as witnesses for the prosecution testified about Spector threatening them with a gun; in each instance, Spector “was romantically interested in the woman, but grew angry after the woman spurned him,” the prosecution argued. But in the final product the background sometimes could not be distinguished as either horns or strings. Also on the bill were the Righteous Brothers. It's especially telling that next to Ike, Phil Spector comes off like a more sensitive collaborator when they record 1966's “River Deep — Mountain High” with him. Chart history", "Ramones Vs. 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