So great was his contribution to modern music that, in , Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He told journalist Mick Brown before his trial about how he felt looked down on for his attempt to change sound in the recording studio.
But I knew. Trust me. I knew. Shortly after his arrest and while he was waiting for his trial to begin, Spector married year-old Rachelle Short. During their marriage, they had adopted three children, two of whom would later accuse Phil Spector of abuse. He did not comment on the claims. After , he was largely inactive in the music industry, working on projects from time to time.
He was fired over personal and creative differences. The first trial in ended in a mistrial, but a subsequent retrial found Spector guilty of murder in the second degree.
He was given a sentence of 19 years to life in prison, from which he would have been up for parole in During the prosecution, several women gave testimony that Spector had pointed a gun at them when they had spurned his advances, illustrating his history of domestic abuse.
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.
Following an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.
He began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: "To know him is to love him. The record went to number one on the Billboard Hot , but the group split the following year. Spector founded his own record label, Philles, in His signature production technique, the "Wall of Sound," involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.
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