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Tearing Down the Wall of Sound

The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector

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Tearing Down the Wall of Sound

Auteur(s): Mick Brown
Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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 Phil Spector, born in the Bronx in 1940, grew up an outsider despised by his peers. Yet after his family moved to California, he learned everything he could about music, formed a band, and had a number-one hit with "To Know Him Is to Love Him". He quickly became the top producer of early rock and roll and the originator of such girl groups as the Ronettes. He was a millionaire by age 21 and owned his own record label by 22. Hit followed hit, and for all of them he used a new recording style and technique called the "wall of sound".

But the reign of the boy-man who owned pop music seemed doomed by the "British Invasion", and Spector spiraled into paranoid isolation and peculiar behavior. Though he seemed to improve for a time, and even returned to the recording studio to work, his renascence didn't last, and in 2003, the actress Lana Clarkson was found at his home, dead from a gunshot wound.

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  • Nominee, 2008 Audie Award, Biography/Memoir

"Bloodcurdling....This book would feel like a crime story even if its subject were not currently on trial for Ms. Clarkson's murder." (The New York Times)
"[This] uber-detailed study of pop's scariest visionary is just about as good as a music bio can get." (Kirkus Reviews)
"[A] remarkable book about, among other things, fame, obsession, genius, money and madness....This is the definitive study of the man and the myth that engulfed him." (Observer)
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This book was even more interesting than I thought it would be. I only really became aware of Phil Spector when he was convicted of murder of Lana Clarkson (specifically through Dominick Dunne in Vanity Fair), and this book finishes with that conviction. Unfortunately, very little about Clarkson is included. I suppose I was interested in his fall from grace, but I had no idea of his talent and success. He produced music for the Righteous Brothers, The Beatles, George Harrison (my first album!), Cher, Ike and Tina Turner, and many more, and his ‘wall of sound’ is famous in the industry. I knew most of the hits he produced, so he had a huge influence what we all have listened to. As a result, aside of the drama of his life, it was quite a revealing listen.

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