Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
by Mick Brown
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Author: Mick BrownEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-05
ISBN: 1400042194
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Knopf
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Book Review: Fabulous
Summary: 5 Stars
I listen rather than read. Approx. 3 years ago I listened for the first time. Back then I thought very good. A few days ago I decided to revisit this book. Surprise, it's a brand new book from what I remembered.
Phil Spector is depicted in depth as is the business of the Rock & Roll business. Making this a fasinating saga. Words are not wasted here so there are no rambling scenes and extended explanations.
Bottom line I love this book. Pretty sure I'll be visiting again in a year or three.
Summary of Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
?Tearing Down the Wall of Sound is a remarkable book about, among other things, fame, obsession, genius, money and madness. It paints the fullest picture yet of a man who, whether creating some of the greatest pop music of all time, or destroying the lives of those closest to him, seems to have existed in a continuous state of mental agitation. The Phil Spector story still awaits its ending. In the meantime, this is the definitive study of the man, and the myth that engulfed him.? ?Sean O?Hagan, The Observer (U.K.)With a number-one hit at age eighteen, a millionaire with his own label by twenty-two, and proclaimed by Tom Wolfe ?The First Tycoon of Teen,? Phil Spector owned pop culture, his roster as a producer including the Ronettes, the Righteous Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, the Beatles, then John Lennon and George Harrison, as well as Leonard Cohen and the Ramones. But in the spring of 2007, he stands trial for murder.
A spectacularly troubled genius, Spector created with the ?Wall of Sound? music never heard before, from ?Be My Baby? and ?You?ve Lost That Lovin? Feelin?? to ?Imagine? and ?My Sweet Lord.? He suffered poorly the quantum shifts in rock and roll?not to mention the loss of his friends Lenny Bruce and John Lennon?growing ever more reclusive and abusive. By the turn of this century, however, he was not only sober but also attracted to new bands who knew his reputation, good and bad, all too well. Then, in February 2003, he leapt back into the headlines when Lana Clarkson, an actress, was found dead by gunshot in his Los Angeles mansion.
Only weeks before, Spector had granted Mick Brown the first major interview he?d given in twenty-five years?the seed for this definitive, mesmerizing biography of a man who first became a king, then something else altogether.
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