Phil Spector: To Know, Know, Know Him Is…

…to figure he's guilty of the homicide for which he's been taken into custody.

Spector, the legendary "Wall of Sound" music producer may have been the first fully realized "studio genius" not only in terms of technical chops but in terms of amazingly erratic behavior. George Harrison once suggested that Spector's main contribution while working the boards on All Things Must Pass was showing up drunk and spilling cherry brandy over everything in sight.

More on point, he reportedly pulled a gun on Dee Dee Ramone once (called a "positive learning experience" by Joey Ramone).

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[Matt Welch]

*Here's* the question I want answered: Alhambra?

[tim]

Once again, Roger Ebert was there first. Anybody familiar with the bloody end of Ronny "Z Man" Barzell, the fictionalized Spector character in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, would have known to stay away from Spector's mansion.

[MWB]

I blame OJ. If he'd stuck to his promise to hunt down the real killers, they wouldn't have struck again like this.

[Eric Lindholm]

He was also insanely jealous and forced wife Ronnie Spector to use an inflatable dummy on the passenger side of her car, allegedly to fend off possible male suitors.