The five-month murder trial of legendary "Wall of Sound" producer Phil Spector ended in a mistrial today after the jury announced for the second time that it couldn't reach a verdict, split 10-2. He may be retried for second degree murder, but he may also walk. Any of you lawyer types following this case, feel free to help me understand how in tarnation there was a shred of reasonable doubt in anybody's mind that he did it. This guy's been famously waving his gun in peoples faces (Leonard Cohen, Ronnie Spector, etc) and threatening to shoot them for decades. Circumstantial, not even, I know. He also stumbled out of the house the morning Lana Clarkson was found shot in the face in his vestibule and told his bodyguard
" I think I just Shot Someone". Doesn't prove a thing, does it? Splendid!
We must remember to separate the artist from the psychopath though, right? This is, after all, the guy who shaped the sound of Be My Baby from the Ronettes, River Deep, Mountain High from Ike & Tina, Let it Be from the Beatles, Plastic Ono Band from John Lennon, All things Must Pass from George Harrison, Death of a Ladies Man from Leonard Cohen, End of the Century from The Ramones, and the most played radio single of all time, You've Lost That Loving Feeling from the Righteous Brothers.
Wall of Sound Classic by The Ronnettes
Be My Baby
Bonus Track-Blog Entry Soundtrack
Pistol Packin' Papa-Jimmie Rogers
I just finished reading "Tearing Down The Wall of Sound-The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector" and highly recommend it for any music fan
2 comments:
That is the true definition of "hair helmut." Impressive.
I'll say it again. That pic is so Eric Adelstein.
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