Tearing down the wall of sound - Mick Brown
the rise and fall of Phil Spector
KORTE INHOUD
Over the course of that day, Spector spoke with extraordinary candour about his life and career; his mercurial rise to become the most successful record producer of the sixties; the genius which had been both a blessing and a curse; his creation of a sound never before heard in music; his trademark 'Wall of Sound'; his fragile mental state and his years on the brink of insanity. 'I've been a very tortured soul', said Spector. 'I have devils inside that fight me.' The interview with Spector appeared as a cover story in the Telegraph magazine on 1 February 2003. Twenty-four hours later, a fading Hollywood actress named Lana Clarkson was shot dead in Spector's castle. Phil Spector was immediately arrested, and later released on $1m bail to await trial. Tearing Down the Wall of Sound is Mick Brown's personal odyssey into the heart of the strange life and times of Phil Spector. Beginning with that fateful meeting in Spector's home and following the unfolding of the Clarkson case, up to and including his trial for ...
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Original black boards, dust jacket, illustrated with colour and b/w photographs, 8vo. [Auteur: Brown, Mick] [Pagina's: 502] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London : Bloomsbury] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector]
