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...early '60s, worked for Atlantic Records (and for himself) as a producer, songwriter and occasional session musician (he played guitar on the Drifters' "On Broadway"). In 1966, the Ike and Tina Turner song "River Deep-Mountain High" did not hit the Top 40 in the U.S., leading a wounded Spector to begin his on-again, off-again retreat from the world...
...Married Ronnie Spector, lead singer of the Ronettes, with whom he reportedly had a very unhealthy relationship. According to an in-depth 2003 Vanity Fair article, he would often have her call while touring and leave the phone off the hook so that he could fall asleep listening to her breathe. His jealousy was epic. Spector made his estate into a fortress - barbed wire, electric fences - kept a glass-topped coffin in the basement for Ronnie ("so I can keep an eye on her after she's dead") and forced her to take a Phil Spector mannequin with her when...
...November 2003, Paul McCartney released Let It Be ... Naked, which stripped much of Spector's Wall of Sound embellishments from the Beatles' final album, originally released in 1970. (See pictures of the Beatles' final performance...
...onetime B-movie actress Lana Clarkson was shot to death in Spector's 33-room estate, which he dubbed "the Castle." The pair had met for the first time earlier that night at L.A.'s House of Blues, where she had been working. Over the decades, Spector had built up a reputation for being loose with guns, having pointed them at John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, one of the Ramones and several romantic interests...
...think I killed somebody." - as overheard by Spector's driver, the night of Clarkson's murder (New York Times, Sept...