Word: spectors
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...Tina were, and are, bigger in England than they are here. In 1966, Phil Spector, a living legend ever since his production of such hits as the Ronettes' "He's a Rebel" or the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost that Loving Feeling," decided to produce Ike and Tina. "River Deep-Mountain High," found on the album of the same name, was the resulting master-piece. In that song, Tina's voice is carried to soaring crescendos with the addition of heavy echo effects, strings, and vocal back-up. The entire album hears the stamp of Mr. Spector's influence...
Where has Tom Wolfe been lately? It has been almost seven years since he burst into Esquire and the Herald Tribune with all those exclamation points and sound-affected sentences about custom cars in California and the Fifth Beatle and that time when Phil Spector made them stop the airplane and let him off because he knew-Spector knew!-it was going to crash. And it has been a year and a half since the publication-on the same day!!!-of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Pump House Gang, and that...
Last week Let It Be came out again on an Apple LP, along with eleven other Beatles renditions. Where did those brass choirs come from? And those secular maracas? They came courtesy of Phil Spector, yesteryear's teen tycoon of rock, whose paeans to post-pubescent passion (Be My Baby, You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin') earned him an estimated $5,000,000 before he retired in 1966 at age 25. Last February Spector was brought in by Beatles Manager Allen Klein to give the album a little commercial passion. And did he ever...
...Plot. Ostensibly the last of the 19 LPs turned out by the Beatles in the extraordinary six years of their fame, Let It Be is also one of their worst. The Long Winding Road, for example, with Spector's broad-brushed addition of strings, harp and choir, is outright embarrassing. Most of the takes were recorded in early 1969 during the shooting of a Beatles film happening, also called Let It Be. While the film (to be released this week in the U.S.) has no plot, its basic theme appears to be "a day in the recording life...