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Phil Spector invented the 'Wall of Sound', a system to overdub scores of musicians to create a roar of sound, which changed music history. He described it as the "Wagnerian approach to rock & roll".

Born in the Bronx, Spector moved, with his mother, to LA after his father committed suicide. In school, Spector learnt the guitar, and started to write songs with Marshall Leib and Annette Bard. They called themselves 'The Teddy Bears', and had a top ten hit in the US and UK with 'To Know Him Is To Love Him', the title taken from the inscription on Spector’s father's grave. They seemed destined for fame, then Spector disagreed with the record company, and the band disintegrated.

Spector drifted around a little, then returned to LA and re-entered the record business and concentrated on producing. With the help of independent producers, Lester Sill and Lee Hazlewood, Spector went to New York and worked with hitmakers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. He became a staff producer for Dune Records, producing a string of hits and becoming an industry sensation.

At 21 he was a millionaire and started to work on his 'Wall of Sound' in earnest. In three years, Spector had 20 consecutive smash hits.

Then things started to go wrong. In 1966 Spector produced Ike and Tina Turner’s 'River Deep, Mountain High'. Spector considered it his greatest production to date, but it became a hit only in England. Embittered, Spector went into seclusion for two years, during which time there were reports of strange, near-psychotic behavior. He did very little for the rest of the 60’s.

In 1969, Spector returned to remix the Beatles, balancing his Wall style for George Harrison’s music with more minimal arrangements for Lennon’s.

He went on to write and produce music for film until, in 2003, Spector was arrested in connection with the shooting of an actress in his mansion. The investigation is ongoing.




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Spector was named to the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame' in 1989

Gave Cher her first recording experience at 16, after Sonny Bono proposed his "girlfriend" as a session singer.

While producing 'Ike and Tina Turner' in the mid-1960s, Spector actually worked only with Tina; Ike was reputed to have been paid $10,000 not to attend the sessions.

Kept a bodyguard/driver since his late teens, after he was attacked in a men's-room prank that got out of hand.

3 February 2003, was arrested and charged with first degree murder after actress Lana Clarkson was shot to death in his home in Alhambra, California. Police are investigating.


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Gimme Some Truth (2000) (TV) (co-producer)
Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special (1968) (TV) (producer)
Big T.N.T. Show, The (1966) (producer)
Goodfellas (1990) (song "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)") (song "Then He Kissed Me")
Salsa (1988) (song "Spanish Harlem")
Big T.N.T. Show, The (1966) (song "This Could Be the Night")

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Sympathy for the Devil Remixes 2003
Forty Licks 2002
No Security 1998
Bridges to Babylon 1997
Rock and Roll Circus 1996
Stripped 1995
Voodoo Lounge 1994
Flashpoint 1991
Steel Wheels 1989
Out of Our Heads (Reissue) 1987
Dirty Work 1986
Rewind (1971-1984) 1984
Undercover 1983
Still Life 1982
Tattoo You 1981
Sucking in the Seventies 1981
Emotional Rescue 1980
Some Girls 1978
Love You Live 1977
Black and Blue 1976
Made in the Shade 1975
Metamorphosis 1975
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll 1974
Goats Head Soup 1973
More Hot Rocks 1973
Exile on Main St. 1972
Jamming with Edward 1971
Sticky Fingers 1971
Hot Rocks 1964-1971 1971
Stoned Again by the Rockers 1970
The Stones/Detroit 1970
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! 1970
Let It Bleed 1969
Through the Past, Darkly 1969
Beggars Banquet 1968
Their Satanic Majesties Request 1967
Flowers 1967
Between the Buttons 1967
Got Live If You Want It 1966
Aftermath 1966
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) 1966
The Rolling Stones, Now! 1965
December's Children 1965
Out of Our Heads 1965
12 X 5 1964
England's Newest Hitmakers: The Rolling Stones 1964
Moonlight Mile 2002