In the USA, the creator of the "Wall of Sound", the legendary producer Phil spector died

On January 17, one of the most influential and scandalous producers, 81-year-old Phil Spector, died in the California Hospital San Hoakin from the consequences of the Covid-19. He was previously imprisoned on charges of murder.

According to Rolling Stone , the producer died of complications associated with coronavirus infection. The diagnosis was made to him four weeks ago. "The official reason for his death will be determined by a forensic expert," the department of correctional institutions and rehabilitation of California said.

Phil Spector was born on December 26, 1939 in Bronx. In 1958, he began a musical career as an author of songs, a guitarist and backing vocalist of the California group The Teddy Bears. The main hit of this group was the song “To Know Him Is to Love Him”: these words were knocked out on the tombstone of the spector's father and inspired him to write a song that spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard chart in 1958 and was sold in a million circulation.

The first large producer successes of Phil Spector were the song The Top Notes "Twist and Shout" (1961), which later achieved even greater success in the versions of The Isley Brothers and The Beatles, the standard "Corrin, Corrina" in the version of Ray Peterson and "Second Hand Love "Connie Francis. He also made notes for the girl’s trio The Ronettes and The Righteous Brothers Duet: in their first hit "You've Lost that Lovin 'Feelin', the spector tested his proprietary technology" Sound wall ".

This know-how assumed a multiple recording of the batch of each tool, which, when mixed, created a greater power of instrumental support: the technology of recording Phil spector influenced the studio work of such famous groups as Beach Boys and ABBA. Among the other achievements of Phil was the recording of the song "River Deep - Mountain High", which, despite its cult status, originally took only 88th place in America.

In 1970, Phil Spector took part in the mixing of the album of The Beatles, called "Let it Be" and became the latter for the group. The opinion of the group’s leaders about this work was divided: Paul McCartney repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the impositions of the ARF and the female choir in his song “The Long and Winding Road”, while John Lennon believed that Phil “made a bunch of shit, which, with all the reservations, could be listened”: later the spector worked with Lenon on the recording of the Single "Instant Karma" and albums "Imagine" and "Rock'n'roll". George Harrison also worked with the spectator, who recorded his famous triple album "All Things Must Pass" and the Triple Concert Album "Concert for Bangladesh", the spector was also one of the producers of his "Living in the Material World" disk.

Among the later works of the spector are Leonard Cohen's album “Death of a Ladies' Man” and The Ramones “End of the Century”, he also worked with Cher and singer Dion. In the 1980s and 1990s, the producer practically departed, but in 2003 he recorded a chittic album of the English group Starsailor "Silence Is Easy". By that time, a criminal case had already been opened against the spector on charges of killing actress Lana Clarkson, which occurred in his house. The trial lasted 6 years. In the end, he was found guilty and sent to bars without the right to parole until 2024.