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Karate, in Case. Spector Sound, as it's called in the industry, is marked by a throbbing, sledgehammer beat, intensified by multiplying the usual number of rhythm instruments and boosting the volume. Spectral orchestration, undulating with shimmering climaxes, is far more polished, varied and broadly rooted than the general run of rock 'n' roll. In Lovin' Feelin', Spector used two basses, three electric guitars, three pianos, a harpsichord, twelve violins, a ten-voice chorus and four brawny percussionists. His vocalists, a pair of 23-year-old white Californians who call themselves the Righteous Brothers, imitate...
...Spector, who is 5 ft. 7 in. and weighs 131 Ibs., personifies the bizarre, make-believe world that he dominates. "I've always wanted to stay in the background," he insists, primping his scraggly, Prince Valiant locks. But his attire could hardly be called a camouflage. Standard costume: stiletto-pointed boots with three-inch Cuban heels, tight pants, cloth cap, Davy Crockett pullover. He ignores the rude hoots that greet his progress down the street, confides that "in case of real trouble I could literally kill a guy. I've studied karate for years...
Teen Pan Alley. Born in The Bronx and raised in Los Angeles, Spector (his real name) played jazz guitar in nightclubs during his high school years. At 17, inspired by the inscription on his father's tombstone, he wrote his first song, To Know Him, Is to Love Him. It sold 1,200,000 copies and has become an alltime teen classic. Phil marked time for two years working as a court stenotypist. Then, at 19, he moved to Manhattan and tried to crash "Teen Pan Alley" only to discover that "95% of the music business is heavily infiltrated...
This month Phil Spector moved from a Manhattan penthouse to a rambling 21-room mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif., to be near his recording studio and Mother Bertha Productions, a subsidiary corporation that publishes sheet music. His mother Bertha is a bookkeeper there. The move was delayed by Phil's reluctance to leave his $600-a-month Manhattan psychoanalyst. Now, however, he figures that he can "keep my equilibrium" by calling the analyst long-distance any time he needs instant therapy...
...exists, all right. To make doubly sure, Entrepreneur Spector has co-founded a new company to make TV documentary films. The first production, starring Spector, will be called A Giant Stands...