The man who had wanted to make pop its letters of nobility died in a Californian jail at the age of 81.
He was serving a 19-year sentence there for the assassination of B-actress Lana Clarkson, who he brought back to his Los Angeles mansion after meeting her at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, where she was employed as a waitress.
A sad end for a man whose imprint on music was immense, but whose personal behavior was carnage.
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The career of this son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants born in the Bronx in 1939 had started with a bang, with
To Know Him is to Love Him
, the first hit composed at the age of 19, just after leaving high school.
The song used the epitaph of a father who committed suicide in 1953, four years before the family relocated to the West Coast.
It marked Spector's rare foray into vocals - in The Teddy Bears trio - before Spector spent most of his life in the studio, working for
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