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Phil spectre dead12/30/2023 171 172 173 174 Spector's daughter Nicole attributed her father's death to complications of COVID-19, with which he was diagnosed in December 2020. When he died, he was serving a 19-year sentence. Spector died in an outside hospital on January 16 at the age of 81, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009. In 2003, he was arrested after actress Lana Clarkson was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in his home. Following that string of albums, he sporadically produced albums by the Ramones, Leonard Cohen, and Céline Dion, and reports emerged of him becoming increasingly reclusive and violent. He produced the Beatles’ final album Let It Be and oversaw production on a number of solo Beatles albums, including John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band and Imagine and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. Spector re-emerged during the late ’60s to work on music from the late-era British Invasion. They divorced in 1974, with Bennett giving up the rights to her music because Spector threatened to hire a hit man to kill her. Spector reportedly kept her locked up inside their house. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. During this retirement, he married the Ronettes lead single Ronnie Bennett, who would later accuse him of physical and psychological abuse. Influential music producer Phil Spector died on Saturday, January 16, in a California hospital at the age of 81. It was during this string of hits that he pioneered his signature “wall of sound” technique, which involved layering all of the instruments on top of each other to build grand and all-encompassing orchestration.Īfter Ike and Tina Turner’s “River Deep, Mountain High” failed to become an immediate hit in 1966, Spector took a hiatus from music. He also produced a Christmas album, A Christmas Gift For You From Philles Records, that included recordings by Darlene Love, the Ronettes, and his other protégées that would become holiday staples. He worked with the Crystals (“ He’s A Rebel,” “Uptown,” “Then He Kissed Me,” and “Da Doo Ron Ron”), the Ronettes (“Be My Baby,” “Walking In The Rain”) the Righteous Brothers (“ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling“), and many more. He co-founded Philles Records and between 19, he had 24 songs in the Top 40 and 13 top-ten singles. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1953 and started in the music industry in 1958 as part of the group the Teddy Bears, who had a chance #1 hit with “ To Know Him Is To Love Him.” The Teddy Bears would break up soon after, but Spector became an in-demand songwriter and producer. (Per TMZ, Spector contracted COVID-19.) Spector had been serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson after being found guilty of second-degree murder in 2009. The convicted murderer and influential producer, who was known for the “wall of sound” approach in his work, died at an outside hospital according to the California Department Of Corrections.
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