Tearing down the wall of sound : the rise and fall of Phil Spector / Mick Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Mick, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spector, Phil, 1939-2021.

Spector, Phil.

Sound recording executives and producers--United States--Biography.

Sound recording executives and producers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 452 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Contents:

"Mr. Spector likes people to walk up"

"It was Philip who was moving fastest"

"To know him is to love him"

On Broadway

"A big hoot and howl"

"They all thought he was a genius"

Building the wall of sound

"He wanted to be thought of as interesting"

Little symphonies for the kids

Going to the chapel

"The wall of sound, it kinda sounds tired"

"The last word in tomorrow's sound today"

"A giant stands 5'7""

River deep, mountain low

Marriage in purgatory

"Out there, but in a beautiful way"

The lonely bird in the gilded cage

With the Beatles

"These are pretty wild sessions, they get pretty out there"

"Let's take five"

"Leonard, I love you

"

"Thank you, folks

have a good life"

"A case that no one can reach"

"Between grief and nothing, I will take grief"

"I honestly thought he was kidding"

"You don't tell Mozart what operas to write"

"Anybody have a calculator?"

"He wanted to prove he really was human"

"It's very difficult, very difficult to be reasonable"

"I think I killed somebody

"A genius is not there all the time".

Notes:

Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-452) and index.

ISBN:

9781400042197

1400042194

OCLC:

82673625