A horrible man, a musical genius has passed away.
Phil Spector, one of the most influential and successful record producers in rock ’n’ roll, who generated a string of hits in the early 1960s defined by the lavish instrumental treatment known as the wall of sound, but whose life was upended when he was sentenced to prison for the murder of a woman at his home, died on Saturday. He was 81.
It’s a weird world we live in.
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I’m not arguing, but it brings a smile when they use the passive tense to tiptoe around the fact that he murdered a woman.
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Seems like they kind of buried the lead, but hey, he made some music!
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So did Charles Manson and Danny Rollins. Geniuses, I say!
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Musical genius without question also a horrible person and finally a murderer. From the wall of sound to the wall of misery.
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Little Stevie’s scathing rebuke of Spector’s lack of humanity contains good advice for those who choose to boycott entertainment based on that individual or groups politics/personal behavior.
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Somehow I don’t remember this murder case. Had to google the victims name to find a picture and the full story. hope he was miserable in prison and died a painful death
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Shouldn’t today’s cancel culture ignore anything and everything positive he may have done? Isn’t that the way it’s works? He’s a convicted murderer after all. Oh wait….. He’s an artist. Ahh, makes sense now.
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No, it should have convicted and imprisoned him, which it did.
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It’s odd to remember today that his father’s tombstone famously read “To know him was to love him”, inspiring the Paris Sisters hit.
He was a genius and I love most of his work and will refrain for now from commenting on his personal problems…I hold Brian Wilson (who drew far more inspiration from Spector than any other source) in higher regard as a producer, but not by a lot.
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Brain cramp, just hit me out of the blue: not the Paris Sisters- the Teddy Bears.
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Phil Spector was a member of the Teddy Bears.
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Right, and their hit was “To Know Him Is To Love Him” (which the Beatles covered in their Decca audition). The brain cramp came from “I Love How You Love Me”- the Paris Sisters’ (I think) hit, also produced by Spector (I think).
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Yeah, he’s aight, except for the murder conviction.
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Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
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