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Phil Spector

May 2023

  • Tina Turner performing at Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1985.

    Tina Turner obituary

    Rock’n’roll singer whose comeback after her turbulent early career made her one of the great superstars of the 1980s and 90s

January 2023

  • Shards of shattered vinyl records, with a bullet nearby, the sleeve reading 'Phil Spector 1958-1981'

    TV review
    Spector review – a complex portrait of the murderer behind pop’s most iconic songs

    This four-part series about Phil Spector walks the tightrope between sensitive and salacious – and refuses to diminish the importance of Lana Clarkson, the woman he killed

December 2022

  • Mariah Carey, Ed Sheeran, Frank Sinatra, Phil Spector and George Michael

    I’m dreaming of a bestseller: what makes Christmas songs stick?

  • Sufjan Stevens in Santa hat, looking glum.

    Ranked
    The 20 greatest Christmas albums – ranked!

November 2022

  • ‘We all felt the Lana Clarkson story, her treatment, her portrayal, all of this was worth looking back on’ … Phil Spector in 2007.

    ‘He was celebrated and protected’: revisiting the dark story of Phil Spector

    In a new docuseries, the life of the abusive music mogul is contrasted with that of Lana Clarkson, the woman he was convicted of murdering

January 2022

  • The Ronettes, Nedra Talley, Ronnie Spector and Estelle Bennett in New York in 1963.

    Ronnie Spector obituary

  • Alexis Petridis

    No one else sounded like the tough yet tender Ronnie Spector

    Alexis Petridis
  • A woman poses for a photo with a cityscape in the background

    Ronnie Spector: a life in pictures

  • Ronnie Spector performing in 2014.

    Ronnie Spector, pop singer who fronted the Ronettes, dies aged 78

18 January 2021

  • Laura Snapes

    Phil Spector defined the toxic music svengali – a figure that persists today

    Laura Snapes
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Phil Spector wasn't a 'flawed genius' – he was a murderer

    Arwa Mahdawi

17 January 2021

  • Alexis Petridis

    Phil Spector brought joy to pop music – and misery to so many lives

    Alexis Petridis
    Spector’s ‘Wall of Sound’ technique gave his artists’ music an infectious joie de vivre, but the man behind it was damaged, bitter and violent
  • Phil Spector in the studio. His 60s recordings embodied pop music’s early innocence and its increasing sense of adventure.

    Phil Spector obituary

    Record producer influential in 60s pop as the creator of the ‘wall of sound’ who in 2009 was jailed for the murder of Lana Clarkson
  • Phil Spector

    Phil Spector, pop producer convicted of murder, dies aged 81

    Producer who revolutionised music in 1960s with his ‘wall of sound’ dies while serving sentence

December 2019

  • Ronnie frosty sheet music copy 3 Ronnie Spector

    Ronnie Spector: ‘I love #MeToo and Time’s Up – because men’s time is up’

    With the Ronettes, Spector helped invent rock’n’roll and made Christmas songs soar – but lived in the shadow of her abusive husband Phil. Now 76, she is still touring and recording – between painting and jams with Keith Richards

April 2019

  • CJ as Michael Jackson

    Too toxic to touch? Tribute acts in the age of #MeToo

    You’d think it’d be a hard time to be a Michael Jackson impersonator – yet business is booming for some acts mimicking problematic stars. Jack Needham finds out more

March 2019

  • Hal Blaine

    Hal Blaine, drummer who dominated mid-century pop, dies aged 90

    Drummer behind iconic Be My Baby rhythm as well as hits by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Simon & Garfunkel described as ‘greatest ever’ by Brian Wilson

March 2018

  • Undeniable singularity ... Tina Turner performs in Manhattan’s Central Park, 1969.

    Tina Turner: the making of a rock'n'roll revolutionary

    With new stage production Tina: The Musical now open, we look back at the boundary-breaking 60-year career of a singer who crossed racial lines and overcame violent oppression to revolutionise music

December 2016

  • Artists responsible for Christmas hits

    It's Christmas! The best festive songs, chosen by Slade, Neil Diamond, the Waitresses and more

    Slade, Loretta Lynn, Run-DMC and Mike Batt have given us some all-time Christmas classics. But what’s the one Christmas song they couldn’t get through the holidays without? They – and other festive hitmakers – give us their picks

August 2016

  • Pavo Pavo

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Pavo Pavo (No 117) wistful, retro pop harks back to the 70s

    Bittersweet romances and the passage of time are themes reflected in the mysterious, vintage, modern-rock sound of five friends from Brooklyn
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