Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Cracks in the Wall

The author of an exhaustive new Phil Spector biography dishes on the reclusive record producer’s life and murder trial.
By Brian Braiker | Newsweek Web
Two days after the publication of the first extensive interview with Phil Spector in more than 25 years, the reclusive record producer was arrested for the fatal shooting of 40-year-old B-movie […]

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Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Tony Palmer on John Lennon, Phil Spector, and how he televised the revolution

It all started with a challenge from John Lennon.
As his epic TV history of pop music is reissued
on DVD, Tony Palmer recalls dodging bullets,
facing a furious Aretha Franklin, and surviving
Russian roulette with Phil Spector

It all started with a chance encounter with John
Lennon in New York in the early Seventies. “Doing
anything useful?” he said with his […]

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Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Judge Declares Mistrial in Phil Spector Murder Case After Jury Reports Deadlock

Linda Deutsch
A mistrial was declared Wednesday in the murder case against music producer Phil Spector when the jury reported for a second time that it could not reach a verdict on whether he killed actress Lana Clarkson more than four years ago.

The mistrial came after months of a trial in which jurors had to decide […]

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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

New Phil Spector production: Crying for John Lennon

New Phil Spector production on the air in Los Angeles
On Sunday Sept. 9th, Chris Carter, host of America’s longest running Beatles show, Breakfast with the Beatles which airs on 95.5 KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, world premiered a new Phil Spector production.

The song by the artist Hargo is called Crying for John Lennon. There have been […]

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Friday, April 27th, 2007

Yoko Ono getuigt mogelijk tegen Phil Spector

Yoko Ono, de weduwe van John Lennon, wordt mogelijk als getuige gehoord in de rechtszaak tegen de legendarische muziekproducent Phil Spector, die maandag van start is gegaan.

Spector wordt onder meer verdacht van de moord op B-actrice Lana Clarkson, die in 2003 dood werd gevonden in zijn landhuis in Californië. De zaak is via de Amerikaanse […]

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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Proces tegen muziekproducent Phil Spector van start

Het proces tegen muziekproducent Phil Spector, verdacht van moord, gaat deze week in Los Angeles van start. Vier jaar geleden werd Spector ervan beschuldigd in zijn huis een actrice te hebben gedood. De komende weken zal een jury worden samengesteld. Het inhoudelijke deel begint vermoedelijk eind april, aldus de BBC maandag.

De actrice, Lana Clarkson (40), […]

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