Tearing Down the Wall of Sound by Mick Brown

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound by Mick Brown

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.

Mick Brown, who was born in London in 1950, has interviewed Salvador Dali, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, Ravi Shankar, and the Dalai Lama, as well as writing books about Richard Branson, the film Performance, and a pop-music guide to America. His twenty-five-year-old interview with Spector was published in The Telegraph in England only days before Lana Clarkson was discovered dead in his Los Angeles home.

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ISBN 13	9781400042197
ISBN 10	1400042194
Title	Tearing Down the Wall of Sound
Author	Mick Brown
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
Year published	2007-06-05
Number of pages	452
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