Phil Spector

There's no way to sidestep seasonal joy with these choice cuts; plunder secondhand stores or hit the iTunes store or amazon.com. Phil Spector, A Christmas Gift For You (featuring the Ronette's I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, which...

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...hosted by The Jackson 5, Cher, The Captain & Tenille, and Tony Orlando & Dawn. In 1974, he was hired by notorious "Wall of Sound" producer Phil Spector to play keyboards on what became John Lennon's "Rock 'N' Roll" album. It was not an easy...

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...Love, stormed to the top of the Hit Parade. Her breakthrough as a soloist came with River Deep Mountain High, written for her by Phil Spector in 1966. When the married couple made their first warm-up appearance for the Rolling Stones in 1969,...

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...Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, where O. J. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend, and Phil Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of an actress. The judge chose Los Angeles County despite a...

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...from the A&M Records vault. Plus most of the earlier recording sessions for the 'Full House' album that same year at Phil Spector's Gold Star studio. And there is probably a whole album's worth of duets I've done with other...

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...band who, ever since the release of their 2005 debut album, have been favorably compared to everyone from My Bloody Valentine to Phil Spector (of all people), but who in reality sound like none of them. Most often associated with what's...

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...Mac. And the closing track--the twin-guitar'd and echo piano'd "Friends, Lovers Or Nothing"--is loaded with just enough Phil Spector nods (and Lennonisms) to invite a lawyer's cease-and-desist letter (no, not really) as well as a...

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...6, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn TORONTO - "Late Show" bandleader Paul Shaffer says his friendship with convicted murderer Phil Spector has not wavered in the wake of the music producer's incarceration. The late-night TV sidekick...

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Last Updated: 2:31 AM, October 27, 2009 Posted: 12:59 AM, October 27, 2009 PHIL Spector -- the eccentric "Wall of Sound" music producer in prison for murdering actress Lana Clarkson -- always had a dark sense of humor. He once sent...

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By BROAD STREET BILLY (as told to DAN GERINGER) "I HAVE A bad heart so I turn off the TV in close games," said Phil Spector, 71, a lifelong Phillies fan who walked to 40 games at Connie Mack Stadium during his childhood in Strawberry...

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