Phil Spector was one of the most famous and influential producers in modern pop music. He is credited with inventing the “Wall of Sound” aesthetic, which favored multiple tracks and dense instrumentation to create an immersive, oceanic sonic effect.
Over his long career he worked with some of rock and pop’s biggest stars, including the Righteous Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, the Ronettes, The Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison.
Ronnie Bennet, the lead singer and co-founder of of the Ronettes, married Spector in 1968, later divorcing him in 1974. Ronnie Spector, as she was known during her marriage to Phil, later attested to his emotional instability, narcissism and generally abusive tendencies.
