![]() ![]() And Spector benefits from spooky cinematography (especially of his now-deserted estate), audio and video interviews he did right before and during the trial, and the participation of a wide range of associates, witnesses and family members: singers Darlene Love and LaLa Brooks, Spector’s daughter Nicole, Clarkson’s mother and friends, songwriter Barry Mann, session players Carol Kaye and Don Randi, British journalist Mick Brown (who’s something of a narrator), defense and prosecution lawyers, even Spector’s wig maker. Pop history is jammed with all sorts of grim and sordid tales, but Spector’s rise and fall remains singular. Two years later, he was found guilty of second-degree murder during a far more low-key trial sentenced to 19 years to life, he was hauled off to jail and died in January 2021 of Covid-19 at 81. Spector was arrested and indicted for murder, becoming the center of a scandalpalooza celebrity trial (complete with his unbelievable array of wigs) that ended in a hung jury and mistrial in 2007. Then came the night in February 2003 when actress Lana Clarkson was found dead of a gunshot wound in the foyer of his home. Starting with his heyday, guns, alcohol and twisted or disturbing behavior (including virtually imprisoning his wife Ronnie and presenting her with adopted children for Christmas presents) become hallmarks of his lifestyle.īy the early 2000s, Spector hadn’t worked in about 20 years and was holed up in his castle in California. ![]() He had a meltdown when Ike and Tina Turner’s “River Deep-Mountain High” wasn’t the all-conquering American hit he’d hoped, and became a hermit-recluse for much of the rest of his life, save for working on the occasional project for the Beatles, the Ramones, Leonard Cohen and a few others. After he’d made booming, cathartic pop symphonies like the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” the Crystals’ “Then He Kissed Me” and the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” to name but a few, the uber-perfectionist Spector, a sort of pop Napoleon, saw his Wall of Sound became outmoded. The tale is still both familiar and queasy. Joyce and Don Argott, it takes us through the well-documented story of how Phil Spector went from iconic and contentious record producer to convicted murderer. ![]() Spector, the new, four-part documentary premiering on Showtime on November 4th, is unique among music docs: It’s part true-crime narrative, part monumentally lurid Behind the Music. ![]()
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