Phil Spector

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Daughter attempts to exonerate Phil Spector - who was the ... (Edinburgh News)

A new documentary looks into Phil Spector's life and the murder of Lana Clarkson which saw the legendary music producer spend his final years in prison.

In 2007, the televised trial of Phil Spector began, but the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Spector was arrested, and first claimed the gun went off accidentally, before later claiming the actress had killed herself inside his home. According to the producers of a new four-part documentary from Sky, Spector’s daughter still believes her father was innocent and is reportedly trying to exonerate the late producer, clearing his name posthumously. In 2003, however, he was arrested and later sentenced to prison for the murder of 40-year-old actress Lana Clarkson, where he Throughout his life, Spector maintained his innocence and claimed that Clarkson had “kissed the gun” before shooting herself in the music producer’s home. Early in the morning on February 3, Spector’s driver Adriano De Souza reported hearing noises coming from inside the house, where he found Spector holding a gun saying “I think I killed somebody”.

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Spector review – a complex portrait of the murderer behind pop's ... (The Guardian)

This four-part series about Phil Spector walks the tightrope between sensitive and salacious – and refuses to diminish the importance of Lana Clarkson, ...

That the California justice system punished Spector, and Clarkson’s family got the closure of justice being served, is small comfort at the end of a harrowing tale. As Spector’s former Teddy Bears bandmate, Carol Connors, states during the first episode’s conclusion: “You have to give the devil his due.” Both addressed the issue of how we paint a picture of remarkable achievement and its cultural impact, how to understand the behaviour of the men and the system that protected them – without excusing the heinous crimes they committed. When it comes to his relationship with Ronnie Bennett, the lead singer of the Ronettes (then aged 20), Brown speaks of a transactional relationship where “Ronnie wanted to be a star”. [journalist Mick Brown](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/mar/18/features.musicmonthly4), who was granted a rare audience with the reclusive Spector a few weeks before Clarkson was killed. [Phil Spector](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/phil-spector) died in a prison hospital in January 2021, the BBC headline was “Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81”.

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Spector review — meticulous doc keeps focus on his victim (The Times)

I'm glad that the first episode of Spector ended with footage of a young, beautiful Clarkson. When a very famous man murders a woman, she can become a bit ...

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