Introduction: Between Elvis and the Beatles
Chapter 1: To Know Him Is to Love Him: Early Life and Formative
Years
Chapter 2: There’s No Other: Entrepreneur and Business Man
Chapter 3: Tomorrow’s Sound Today: Technical Wizard and Musical
Visionary
Chapter 4: Pocket Symphonies for the Kids: Teenagers
Chapter 5: He’s A Rebel: Feminism and Civil Rights
Chapter 6: He Hit Me: Control and Power
Chapter 7: You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling: Collective
Consciousness Versus Ego Consciousness
Chapter 8: He’s Sure the Boy I Love: Mentor and Protégés
Chapter 9: Get Back: Master and Servant
Chapter 10: End of a Century: Decline and Fall
Conclusion: The Genius that the Geniuses Go To
Sean MacLeod is a songwriter, music producer, and lecturer from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing and producing music for more than twenty-five years and teaches courses in music and media at the Limerick College of Further Education. He wrote Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s and Their Influence on Popular Culture in Britain and America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).
MacLeod ... chronicles Spector’s life and work from his early years
and his growing love of music to his technical wizardry, work with
the Beatles and John Lennon, and crash into disgrace after he was
convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003.... MacLeod’s
... book certainly reminds readers of Spector’s musical genius and
his lasting contributions to rock and roll and pop music, and it
serves as a helpful introductory survey to the best work on
Spector.
*Publishers Weekly*
The American music scene was in rough shape at the end of the
1950s. Elvis was in the army; Buddy Holly was dead; Chuck Berry was
in prison; Little Richard had retired. There was a big hole in pop
music, and music producer Phil Spector filled it in the 1960s and
’70s, with girl bands, new sounds, and big hits (the Righteous
Brothers’ 'You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’' and the Beatles’ 'The
Long and Winding Road,' to name but two). In this insightful book,
the author traces Spector’s career from fame to obscurity to
eccentricity to seclusion to imprisonment (he was convicted of
murder in 2009). MacLeod’s approach is to look at Spector’s life as
a whole and not to focus on the legal case; he’s out to give
Spector his due as a musical genius, a man who richly deserved his
legendary status.... [M]usic fans will be fascinated.
*Booklist*
Phil Spector: Sound of the Sixties follows the ups and downs of
Spector’s career as an entrepreneur and businessman, technical
wizard and musical visionary, record label master, and collaborator
with the biggest bands of the age.
*The Beat (UK)*
Sean MacLeod’s book underscores the importance of Phil Spector’s
musical journey as the key producer of the twentieth century. It
places his work in a wider social context and details the torments
and triumphs that drove him to become the inventive genius who set
the standard for others to follow
*Kingsley Abbott, editor of Little Symphonies: A Phil Spector
Reader*
Sean MacLeod thoroughly covers all bases in the Spector myth. Not
only are Spector’s legendary productions examined in full, their
influence is also discussed in a wider cultural and social context.
As such, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the
Tycoon of Teen and his fabled Wall of Sound
*Cuecastanets.wordpress.com, the Spector & Wall of Sound music
blog*
A fascinating read. . . . Sean MacLeod brings to life every step of
Spector’s creation of the Wall of Sound—and what followed. MacLeod
details an exposé of a talented musician, creative genius,
technical innovator, and manipulative social misfit’s successful
rise from immigrant roots and a dysfunctional family to his
eventual demise in a pointless and murderous end game.
*Jerry Burgan, co-founder of We Five and author of Wounds to Bind:
A Memoir of the Folk Rock Revolution*
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