Tearing Down the Wall of Sound (62 page)

ILLUSTRATIONS CREDITS

The Spector family: Harvey, Benjamin, Bertha and Shirley. A celebratory dinner, circa 1947—Courtesy of Paulette Brandt.

The Teddy Bears, 1958. (
Left to right
) Phil Spector, Annette Kleinbard and Marshall Lieb—Corbis.

With Jack Nitzsche (
left
) and Darlene Love, Gold Star Studios, 1963—Ray Avery/CTSIMAGES.COM.

With Larry Levine and Annette Spector, Gold Star Studios, 1963—Ray Avery/CTSIMAGES.COM.

With the Ronettes, Gold Star Studios, 1963—Ray Avery/CTSIMAGES.COM.

With Tina and Ike Turner, Gold Star Studios, 1966—Ray Avery/CTSIMAGES.COM.

Phil Spector and George Brand guarding the La Collina mansion, 1975—Corbis.

The Pyrenees Castle, Alhambra, photographed on the morning of Spector's arrest—AP.

Lana Clarkson—AP.

Rachelle Spector—Neil Zlozower.

Phil Spector appears in court, May 2005—AP.

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Hill and Range administered Elvis Presley Music, the company which had been set up by Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker. Freddy Bienstock, a cousin of Hill and Range's founders Jean and Julian Aberbach, had the sole responsibility for selecting material and presenting it to Elvis personally. “I had a song written by Leiber and Stoller which I thought was very good for Elvis,” he remembers. “I went out to Memphis and played it for him. And he listened to the first eight bars and he took it off and said, ‘It's not for me.' I was disappointed, and I thought I'll wait. And not the next session, but the session after that, I resubmitted it to him. And he started playing it, and after eight bars he looked at me and said, ‘I didn't like it the first time.' I was stunned. He must have heard thousands of songs in between.”
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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2007 by Mick Brown

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Originally published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Rolling Stone LLC for permission to reprint an excerpt from “The Phil Spector Interview” by Jann Wenner, copyright ©1969 by Rolling Stone LLC (
Rolling Stone,
November 1, 1969). All rights reserved.

Reprinted by permission of Rolling Stone LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Mick, [date].

Tearing down the wall of sound: the rise and fall of Phil Spector / by Mick Brown.—1st American ed.

p. cm.

Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Spector, Phil, 1940–2. Sound recording executives and producers—United States—Biography. I. Title.

ML429.S64B76 2007

781.66092—dc22

[B]

2007004819

eISBN: 978-0-307-26772-6

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