Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector

A stunning biography of "pure self-interest and cruelty, tempered only slightly by the great musical achievements of...
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Author: Mick Brown
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Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Brown, Mick

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector

CHF 28.69

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector

CHF 28.69
Author: Mick Brown
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A stunning biography of "pure self-interest and cruelty, tempered only slightly by the great musical achievements of Mr. Spector's golden age in the early 1960s" (The New York Times).

He had a number one hit at eighteen. He was a millionaire with his own record label at twenty-two. He was, according to Tom Wolfe, "the first tycoon of teen." Phil Spector owned pop music. From the Crystals, the Ronettes (whose lead singer, Ronnie, would become his second wife), and the Righteous Brothers to the Beatles (together and singly) and finally the seventies punk icons The Ramones, Spector produced hit after hit.

But then he became pop music's most famous recluse. Until one day in the spring of 2007, when his name hit the tabloids, connected to a horrible crime.

In this "bruising portrait of legendary music producer Phil Spector" (Entertainment Weekly), the last journalist to interview him before his arrest tells the full story of the troubled genius.

Author: Mick Brown
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/13/2008
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.28w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9781400076611


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/22/2008 pg. 20

About the Author
Mick Brown was born in London in 1950 and has interviewed Salvador Dali, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, Ravi Shankar, and the Dalai Lama, and has written several books as well on Richard Branson, the movie Performance, and a guide to America through pop songs. His interview with Spector--the first in twenty-five years--was published in The Telegraph in England only days before Lana Clarkson was found dead in his "castle" in Los Angeles.

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