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Smerconish: Will medical advances shape abortion law? Christie reveals what Trump said to him when he was hospitalized. There, Spector established important alliances with such figures as Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun, publishing kingpin Don Kirshner and many of the songwriters who would later supply him with hit material, including the teams of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich.

During his flurry of hits, Spector honed his fabled Wall of Sound methodology. Up to half a dozen guitars strummed chords in unison. Then came two, and sometimes three or more, pianos.

In the small Gold Star studio, the instruments bled together, the texture so thick that the horn and string arrangements were almost subliminal, absorbed into the great sonic mass.

A firm drumbeat and dramatic flourishes — castanets, chimes, maracas — added to the grandeur. He fostered a core of studio musicians who became known as the Wrecking Crew, many of them highly respected jazz and session players. A driven, demanding perfectionist, Spector presided over sessions that were part party, part endurance test, part psychodrama. He would take the tapes home and labor on the mixing process for weeks.

In six years, he had gone from high school nobody to the hottest name in popular music. Spector reveled in his celebrity, dressing flamboyantly, flaunting his success and delighting in public confrontations.

Things tailed off commercially for Philles in , but Spector came roaring back with a white soul-singing duo from Orange County called the Righteous Brothers. The idiosyncratic record took his sound as far as it could possibly go, and when it stalled at No. Philles became inactive, and its owner retreated to his Spanish-style mansion in Beverly Hills near the Sunset Strip.

Spector was hit hard by the drug overdose death of controversial comedian Lenny Bruce, a close friend and artistic hero. After he divorced, Spector married Bennett in It was a turbulent relationship, and the singer would later allege that she was virtually a prisoner in their home, subjected to abuse and threats by her combustible husband.

The couple divorced in A well-known teetotaler through his early career, Spector began to drink heavily. In , he was convicted of the murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson. His death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office," it said.

Spector produced 20 top 40 hits between and His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen. His life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the s and s. In February , actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.

Spector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson "kissed the gun" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.

The brief career of the Teddy Bears had been the start of his apprenticeship. Over the next two years Spector was fast-tracked through the music business, making contacts and supervising sessions with artists both obscure Billy Storm, the Top Notes and well known Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker. Already wise in the ways of the industry, he was keen to operate on his own terms, and in he and Sill started their own label. It was in the summer of that he found the song that established his identity.

Given a downbeat backing and a strange, echoing guitar solo, it was released under the name of Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans. In the Crystals were again allowed to sing on their own records, La La Brooks taking the lead on the two songs that carried them back into the Top His attention, however, had already turned to his next group of female singers: the Ronettes, two sisters and a cousin from Harlem.

The assassination of President John F Kennedy had dulled the appetite for Christmas entertainment that year, however, and the album went unnoticed. At a time when the US was in thrall to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Spector seemed to be one of the few figures in American pop music capable of resisting the British invasion.