Phil spector died

January 16 in California at the age of 81, the music producer Phil Spector died.

It is reported by BBC .

Phil Spector was born in 1939 in New York, in 1958, together with his school friends, he created the Teddy BEARS group and composed for it the song “To Know Him Is To Love Him” , which took first place in the Billboard Hot 100 hit.

In 1960, Phil Spector founded the Philles Records recording label, on which the plates of The Crystals, The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers , Ayka and Tina Turner were released. In 1962, having bought the shares of his partner, the 21-year-old spector became the youngest in history by the owner of the label. In the first half of the 1960s, he produced a lot of hits, using the “wall of sound”-the innovative sound recording technique and arrangements with a multiple imposition of instrumental parties developed by him.

In 1970, John Lennon and George Harrison invited the spector to make the last album The Beatles from the material recorded in the material studio. The result of his work was the “Let it be” record, which came out shortly after the collapse of the group and took first places in the charts of the United States, Great Britain and other countries around the world.

In the 1970s, the producer continued his cooperation with Lennon and Harrison, also worked with Cher, Leonard Cohen and Ramones and other musicians, and by the beginning of the 1980s he moved away from active activity. In 1973, he received the Grammy Award for Harrison's album “Concert for Bangladesh” , in 1989 he was introduced into the Hall of Glory of Rock and Roll, in 1997-into the glory of the authors of songs.

In 2009, Phil Spector was found guilty of the murder of actress Lana Clarkson and was convicted from 19 years to life. He served a sentence in prison in California.