Phil Spector Documentary Reveals his ‘Agony and Ecstasy’
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Phil Spector is one of the most successful music producers of our time. He is also a convicted murderer.
The studio genius gave the world a host of classics from ‘Be My Baby’ to ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin” and ‘River Deep - Mountain High.’ That was then. In ‘The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector’ — which screens at Toronto’s Bell Lightbox Jan. 27 - Feb. 2 — award-winning director Vikram Jayanti explores the two facets of Spector: iconic pop producer and apparently deranged psychopath.
Poetic and masterful, the acclaimed documentary pushes you to reexamine Spector’s sonic legacy — which also includes masterpieces by the Beatles, Yoko Ono, Ike and Tina Turner and the Ramones — through the lens of the bizarre and disturbed character we now know him to be. Where Spector’s indelible ‘Wall of Sound’ technique once recalled youthful bliss, those melodies now swell with forbodding doom, while songs like ‘He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)’ foreshadow a gruesome night that ended with a gun shot and an untimely death of a troubled Hollywood actress.
Jayanti tells Spinner about his regular visits to Spector’s California mansion before the infamous producer was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009. It was here, surrounded by surveillance cameras, that Spector unloaded.
Read the complete interview on Spinner.
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