Phil Spector found GUILTY of shooting Barbarian Queen in the MOUTH[views:2161][posts:13]_______________________________________ [Apr 13,2009 9:14pm - thuringwethil ""] http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/13/phil.spector.verdict/index.html [img] [img] |
| _________________________________ [Apr 13,2009 9:18pm - RustyPS ""] where did the fropiece go? [img] |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 13,2009 9:32pm - AndrewBastard ""] [img] |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 13,2009 9:40pm - MillenialKingdom ""] Awesome. |
| _________________________________________ [Apr 14,2009 9:41am - Conservationist ""] In his heyday in the early 60s, Spector produced some of the most exuberant and uplifting recordings ever heard in pop music, including Be My Baby by the Ronettes and Da Do Ron Ron by the Crystals. In the 70s, he went on to produce John Lennon's anthemic Imagine and George Harrison's My Sweet Lord. Yet for all the transcendent beauty of his music, Spector was a man who seemed to magnetise darkness. His controlling behaviour over his artists left a legacy of bitterness and lawsuits; and fame served only to inflame his paranoia, leading him to withdraw from the music business behind a screen of barbed-wire fences and Keep Out: Armed Response signs, a troubled and reclusive figure, rock and roll's own Howard Hughes. Much of this unhappiness could be traced back to his childhood. Spector was born into a working-class Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, the son of a steelworker. When he was nine-years-old his father committed suicide, leaving him to be brought up by an overbearing mother who alternately smothered and bullied him. Spector, his mother and elder sister Shirley moved to California. Small, pale and scrawny with watery eyes and a whining, adenoidal voice, Spector was the playground outsider, by his own account 'always different'. He found his salvation in music. In 1958, he enlisted two schoolfriends in a group called the Teddy Boys, and wrote and produced his first recording. Its title, To Know Him Is To Love Him, was taken from his father's gravestone. The record gave Phil Spector his first number one record. He was just 18. By the time he was 22 he would be a millionaire. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...or-overtaken-by-his-own-demons.html Jesus Christ. |
| __________________________________________________ [Apr 14,2009 10:22am - the_taste_of_cigarettes ""] Holy shit....this case finally ended?!?!? this has been going on FOREVER... |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 15,2009 11:40am - KadoogASSÜCK ""] Dude made great records. It's a shame he's such a murderous psycho. |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 15,2009 11:50am - thuringwethil ""] he should've produced Charlie Manson, can you imagine the alternate history? |
| ______________________________ [May 29,2009 3:27pm - Yeti ""] http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/29/spector.sentencing/index.html 19 years to life |
| _______________________________________ [May 29,2009 3:40pm - thuringwethil ""] buh-bye. sounds like a prick |
| _______________________________________ [May 29,2009 3:48pm - SteveSummoned ""] I'm confused...2 trials? Aren't you not supposed to be tried twice for the same crime? |
| __________________________________________ [May 29,2009 4:12pm - largefreakatzero ""] There was a Ramones documentary on the other day -- they talked about their failed recording attempt with Phil -- and they talked about how he loved to wave guns around and was more or less fucking nuts. |
| _______________________________________ [May 29,2009 4:28pm - thuringwethil ""] SteveSummoned said:I'm confused...2 trials? Aren't you not supposed to be tried twice for the same crime? I think the first one went mistrial |
| ___________________________________________ [May 29,2009 9:13pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] he looks like a muppet |