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...cycle of suddenly-rich-and-famous rock performers: What is a boy to do when his splenetic-loser shtik wins him magazine covers and huge record contracts? How to deal with the heartbreak of success? By growing up. It happens. According to John Lennon's friend and producer Phil Spector, the edgy Beatle regularly joked about losing his edge. ''John would say, 'Jesus, Phil -- we're startin' to sound like our f--- parents...
...imitating “Star Wars,” or Tay Zonday singing “Chocolate Rain.” And, yes, we laugh at them and their absurdity as often, or more often, than we laugh along with them.Conscious of this ridicule, Ian Spector, the creator of the Chuck Norris Random Fact Generator, said he’s become “jaded” as a result of his rise to Internet success. “What I did, it doesn’t serve any practical purpose. It’s a huge waste of time...
...Heat Strokes OK, so their defense is worse than Phil Spector's. But he got away with it, so why shouldn't the Miami Heat? They looked awful last year, but they won it all two years ago - and this year's team is better on paper. If Shaq and Dwyane Wade can stay healthy, the Heat should be able to play with anyone. Of course, that's like saying that if their leaders can behave rationally, the U.S. and Iran should be able to keep the peace. It's obviously true, but not even Tim Donaghy would want...
...KNOWN AS THE guru who launched Nancy Sinatra's career by writing and producing the racy, iconic tune These Boots Are Made for Walkin', a No. 1 hit for Sinatra in 1966. Yet a decade earlier, the work of Lee Hazlewood (below) was drawing attention from a young Phil Spector, who was intrigued by the hit sounds Hazlewood created for teenager Duane Eddy, using a grain elevator to create reverb and twang. The anti-Establishment artist, who helped spur country-pop, shunned fame by escaping to Sweden in the '70s. But by the '90s the master of "cowboy psychedelia...
...Svengalis are a noble and often valuable tradition. Berry Gordy was notoriously tyrannical during the heyday of Motown Records, but compare the timeless, distinctive singles the Four Tops or Diana Ross did for the label with the banal, forgettable ones they did after they left. Spector, for his part, brandished a gun in the studio, intimidating everyone around him. But the hits he crafted for the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers are the music equivalent to the Sistine Chapel; the flimsy singles those acts (and many others) released after they broke with him are paint-by-numbers pop. As much...