Phil Spector
Date of birth
26th December, 1936
Occupation
Record Producer
Sex
Male
Twitter Reacts To Unforgivable Headlines Surrounding The Death Of Convicted Murderer Phil Spector
By Holly Mosley in Music / Festivals on 18 January 2021
Here's what the public had to say about the death of Phil Spector.
With the news that Phil Spector - convicted murderer of Lana Clarkson - has passed away at the age of 81 due to COVID-19 complications, many headlines have displayed shocking ignorance and insensitivity by choosing to focus on his music career rather than his crime. Naturally, readers have reacted with predictable disgust.
It's true that the media often has a habit of overlooking respect and sensitivity when it comes to getting headlines out quickly, and this time they have gone a step too far by underplaying the fact that music producer Phil Spector was a brutal killer.
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Little Suspicions Give The Best Description Of Their Sound We've Ever Heard [EXCLUSIVE]
By Staff Writer in Music / Festivals on 27 October 2020
Listen to Little Suspicions' debut single 'Wasting All My Time'.
British indie-rock four-piece Little Suspicions give a unique insight into their sound in a new interview with Contactmusic. They also open up about COVID-19 has affected their musical plans, and release a new single entitled Wasting All My Time.
For those who may be new to your music, how best would you describe your sound?
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The Wrecking Crew - Featurette And Clips
Through the 1960s, a collection of Los Angeles musicians worked together in order to support acts like The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra. This group was called The Wrecking Crew, and they created some of the greatest and most influential songs, without receiving any of the credit for it. Beach Boys co-founder, Bryan Wilson, described how they were the most important part of that period in music. A documentary 12 years in the making, sheds some light on some of the unsung heroes of the musical industry in the 1960s.
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Al Pacino As Phil Spector - "I Would Sit For Hours Just Looking At Phil Talking About Things"
By Jack de Aguilar in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 01 July 2013
The legendary actor opens up on the role
Al Pacino stars alongside Helen Mirren as Phil Spector – the infamous American record producer and songwriter – in David Mamet’s controversial new drama for HBO. The TV movie surrounds the shooting of Lana Clarkson, in which Mirren plays the defence lawyer enamoured and convinced by her client’s tribulations.
“The luxury in today’s world is that you have all this footage on the characters you play,” says Pacino as he explains he method of preparing for the role to The Telegraph. “I would sit for hours just looking at Phil talking about things, mainly during and after the first trial.” For Pacino, though, simply mimicking what he saw on screen wasn’t good enough.
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Al Pacino Refused To Meet Phil Spector Before Portraying Him On Screen
By Victoria Pavlova in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 05 January 2013
Al Pacino can certainly be described as a method actor when it comes to getting under the skin of the characters he is about to portray.
However, despite taking on the role of former record producer and convicted killer Phil Spector for an HBO movie, Pacino decided against visiting the man in prison. Instead, he opted for watching video tapes of the man in order to get into character. Reason being that, according to Pacino, the man he would be portraying – the Spector before conviction - would not be the same man that he would be visiting in prison.
His decision didn’t make much of a difference, however, as it turned out that the actor had already met Spector about 20 years prior. A friend showed Pacino a photograph, in which he was standing next to the producer, dated a couple of decades back. The actor said he had no memory of the event. The film, entitled Phil Spector, is set to debut sometime in March and is going to focus on Spector’s relationship with his lawyer Linda Baden. In the flick, Baden will be played by Helen Miren. All in all, with such a star-studded cast, this might be one to watch out for in 2013.