Phil Spector 1939-2021
 

An absolute artistic GIANT. Also a piece of shit (sadly, they go together way more often than we'd like). If for you the latter part cancels the former, just ignore this thread.

Visionary producer, scum of a man.

Hated him shitting on Good Vibrations when Brian Wilson idolised him as a producer.

I still hate him for puking all over Let It Be. (But then again, The Beatles themselves share the blame for this.)

His almost gothic darkside was always part of his mystique for me. The records obviously stand on their own merits but the stories about Spector the man helped define another pop culture staple, reproduced in movies like Mullholland Dr. or the Alfred Molina scene in Boogie Nights, that's obviously impossible to condone in real life but which I've always found fascinating.