Phil Spector gets at least 19 years for murder

reuters ^ | Fri May 29, 2009 | Steve Gorman

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eccentric music producer Phil Spector was given a sentence of 19 years to life in prison on Friday for the murder of a Hollywood actress in 2003. Spector, 69, who revolutionized pop music in the 1960s with his layered "Wall of Sound" production technique, was convicted in April of second-degree murder by a Los Angeles jury after a second trial. The first trial ended in a deadlock in 2007. Lana Clarkson, 40, a B-movie actress, died of a shot to the mouth, fired from Spector's gun in the foyer of his mock castle home outside Los Angeles on February 3, 2003. The two had met hours earlier at a Hollywood nightclub.

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[ak267]

add a pair of shades and he looks like Disco Stu (Simpsons)

[Terabitten]

You’d think he’d at least get a decent haircut for his sentencing.

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[Beowulf9]

I’ve read that he wears some famous Italian wigmaker’s wigs, the same that Andy Warhol was a wearer of.

[EyeGuy]

Man California is already in hock.

I guess they’ll have to issue bonds to pay for the elctricity to power the clippers to remove that science fiction coiffure of Mr. Wall of Sound.

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[Canes101]

What a freakkkkkkkkk

[Dayton3]

That means in California he should get out in about two years doesn’t it?

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Great Producer: Check

Crazy as a s*it-house rat: Double Check.

[JoeProBono]

Phil Spector at 18. " Phil Spector, author of 'To Know Him is to Love Him', teenage ballad now sweeping the country. Phil is 18 and graduate of Fairfax High. Composes music on guitar. As member of 'The Teddy Bears', teenage trio, he made hit record of own song". Too much, too soon is the oldest song in the book.

[raccoonradio]

"You've Lost That Livin' Feeling"
"...And Then He Killed Me"

Separated at birth: Phil Spector and Hanna Barbera's Hair Bear (Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch, early 70s)

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[KosmicKitty]

Wow, he actually looks normal in that picture!

I didn’t believe that was possible1

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[Lizavetta]

[Deb]

After her nervous breakdown, Rosemary Clooney said it took years for her to get the help she needed because show business overlooks and covers up insane behavior.

This man pulled a gun on John Lennon in a recording session and nobody did anything.

[Constitution Day]

Check out that button on his lapel.

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