Director Vikram Jayanti lets a pre-incarcerated Spector do the talking in a new documentary. The record producer's anecdotes fascinate while his more personal musings haunt
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
Whatever the theme song to Phil Spector's troubled life and times might be, "To Know Him Is to Love Him" probably isn't it.
That, as Spector fans know, is the title of the legendary record producer's first hit, recorded by the Teddy Bears in 1958 with words taken from the epitaph on his father's tombstone.
Spector went on to produce hits almost without number, including "Be My Baby," "He's a Rebel," "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling."
Today, however, the man Sean Lennon called "the genius geniuses come to" is in prison serving 19 years to life after the jury in a second trial convicted him of the Alhambra murder of actress Lana Clarkson. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (3661 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 19 agosto 2010
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