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Harvey Phillip Spector (December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) was an American record producer, songwriter, and convicted murderer.He is best known for his innovative recording practices and entrepreneurship in the 1960s along with his two trials and conviction for the murder of Lana Clarkson in the 2000s.
In the early hours of February 3, 2003, Clarkson met record producer Phil Spector while working at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.The two were driven in Spector's limousine to his mansion, the Pyrenees Castle, in Alhambra, California, and went inside while his driver waited in the car.
Born Harvey Phillip Spector in the Bronx, New York City on Boxing Day 1939, the aspiring musician moved to Los Angeles while still a teenager. At the age of 19, he co-founded a vocal pop group ...
Spector appeared in court charged with the murder of Clarkson in 2007. On September 26, 2007, the trial judge declared mistrial due to a hung jury ten to two for conviction. [8] Spector was retried and in April 2009 he was found guilty of second-degree murder. [5] Spector was sentenced on May 29, 2009, to 19 years to life in state prison. [9]
Phil Spector, the prolific music producer who changed the industry with his “Wall of Sound” in the 1960s and spent his last years in prison for murder, died Saturday. Spector reportedly ...
Rock producer Phil Spector, who changed the sound of pop music in the 1960s with his "Wall of Sound" recordings and was convicted of murder for the 2003 murder of a Hollywood actress, has died at ...
Producer Phil Spector, the legendary studio revolutionary of the ’60s and ’70s who ended his life imprisoned for a 2003 murder, has died. Biographer Richard Williams noted that Spector single ...
He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and others. He worked extensively in film scores for the films Performance , The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .