The Musical Guts Behind Spector
uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1970
PHIL SPECTOR is alive and well and living on Sunset Boulevard in his beloved Los Angeles. He's producing records again, having come out of retirement because of a deep-rooted sense of frustration felt every time he switched on his radio and heard a series of totally unimaginative sounds pouring out.
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