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Phil Spector arrested for murder (updated)
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Legendary record producer Phil Spector has been charged with first degree murder after a woman was found dead in his LA mansion.
The charges came after 62-year-old Phil Spector was arrested at his home in LA's Alhambra suburb after police were called at 5am local time (1pm GMT) on the morning of february the 3rd and found the body of a woman inside Spector's mansion. She was pronounced dead at the scene and has not been named.
Details are light at the moment and the connection between the woman and him is not yet clear. Police have released no details about the victim, other than that she is a white woman. Bail has been set at $1 million and Spector is expected to appear in court later this week.
Phil Spector, born on Christmas Day in 1940, started his career in the 50s with his group The Teddybears before moving on to production with his trademark 'Wall of Sound' being used on, amongst others, Tina Turner, The Beatles (and some of their solo stuff) and the Ramones.
Recently he has been linked to production credits on Starsailor's upcoming new album and the next album by The Vines, although that story was ruled out by Vines management.
If half of the stories that Ronnie Spector has told about her time married to Phil are true, it's a surprise this hasn't happened before... has anyone heard from Ronnie over the last few days...?
Update
It seems that the victim is Lana Clarkson, a 40-year-old actress in what can only be described as a stack of rubbish films. However, she was in the A-Team and Knightrider, and I'm sure many people would die happy afer doing that. Phil Spector is still facing a murder charge though.
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Phil Spector arrested for murder
He did 2 tracks for the new stairsalior record and was then asked to do the whole of the new album. Unfortunately he turned out to be a nutter and the sessions sounded dreadful so the band had to sack him. true. -
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There are countless stories about Phil Spector doing various totally psychotic things. In Dee Dee Ramone's excellent autobiography, there's a bit in which the band are recording the 'End of the Century' album and Phil Spector holds them at gunpoint while he sits and plays 'Baby I Love You' to them for several hours. Dee Dee actually claims that he, Johnny and Marky actually went home before they recorded the album, meaning that Spector must've got session players in to record everything apart from the vocals. Rumour has it he held a gun to Joey's head to make him sing the vocals to 'Baby I Love You' over a string backing track.
You can't totally trust Dee Dee because he was off his head most of the time, and I've read some conflicting stories which claim he definitely *did* play on the 'End of the Century' album, but it does give you some idea of the kind of nutter that Spector is. -
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To be fair, how much of it sounding shit was down to Stena Stairliftsailor? -
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ahh... still not as crrrrrazy as Martin Hannett was, i'm sure.
and Joe Meek shot his landlady then killed himself.
the moral of this story? bands recording at home is the way forward.
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Is being utterly insane some kind of prerequisite for being a genius record producer?
At least Lee Perry is nuts in a largely not-dangerous-to-the-public kind of way... -
Re: Phil Spector Arrested for murder.
Never liked Phil Spector. Thought he was a creep from the start. When they said he fell in love with Ronnie Bennet bcuz she sounded like a 12-year-old, that really creeped me out. They also said she was a 'sex-kitten'. So what is she then, a 12-year-old sex kitten? That's just sick.
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