Phil Spector Guilty Of Second-Degree Murder
Crazy-haired music producer Phil Spector has been found guilty of second-degree murder in a Los Angeles court for the 2003 gruesome shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. This was his second trial on the charge.
The first jury was hung back in 2007, with an unmoving 10-2 stalemate. That was ten for conviction, two for acquittal.
But, now after just 30 hours of deliberation, the second jury has returned a definitive guilty verdict. Spector, the man behind the Beatles’ Let It Be, faces a possible 15 years to life sentence.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
Those walls are going to be made of more than sound.
@MyNameIsChris: No kidding - of all the albums to mention with regard to Spector, that's the wrong one.
I just can't get over how big those buttons are. I can't see anything else!
where is the photo before he was told of his verdict?
@depardoo: interestingly, the little ironed sweepy 'do he had after this was even creepier.
Banjo-Sea Kitten
"Give me head with hair ... long beautiful hair ... shining ... gleaming ... steaming flaxen waxen ..."
At least seven years for that hair.
depardoo
Please... Spector, the man who made the Beatles "Let It Be" more craptastic than it already was. Not that he didn't have his moments elsewhere.
MyNameIsChris
@Fry_Bread_Power: good LORD.
Suicide by Phil Spector is still suicide in my book.
@Colonel Mustard: The lead button is going for the jugular; the rest will feed afterward.
@Gawkchalk: ha!
Good.
That said, interesting photo the LA Times used for this article:
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SCARY.
Hall of Pound.
@Colonel Mustard: Those are actually his grandmother's brooches.
Looks like the only thing that'll be hung this time around are his new neighbors. Yowza! Zing!!
♩When I find myself in times of trouble, my new cell mate comes to me... He whispers words of wisdom: Grab your ankles whiteboy.♪"
Okay, Richard. Really this has to stop. Two outrageously disturbing pictures in less than a week, (plus the army of faceless zombie Easter bunnies, not funny, btw) what are you trying to do to me here?
There's just no reason for that hair, ever. Even if you're crazy. Even if you're an alien/be-afro'ed monster/Richard Simmons impersonator. Even if you were electrocuted, then set on fire, then witness to Medusa while in a wading pool full of shellac and pine needles ...that hair is just the meaning of the end of the world as we all know it.
Spirit Fingers
Mr. Spector will be sentenced to ten years in a minimum security prison outside of Malibu. His hair: 30 to life at San Quentin.
El_Gato
There's a Wall of Sound (now Silence?!) joke lurking around here somewhere.
I think my mom bought a lamp like that from Spencer Gifts in 1979..
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Kitten_Witawip
Phil, you murderous troll!
I wouldn't flout "Let It Be" as an achievement...
He was immediately remanded, lest he "Da doo run run run, da doo run run."
Judging by that 'do, it looks like he already got the chair
Understater
@Gawkchalk: Guffaw!
souldecirce
@Gawkchalk: +1.
He's actually hiding one of those little static electricity globes under the defense table.
m4ximusprim3
@Spirit Fingers:
Yet, oddly, I feel fine!
How long was he indulged on the basis of his money and fame before he came to this?
@formerly it takes a lot to laugh: He was really more of a singles producer anyway.
disinterested 3rd party
Good Christ, how long did it TAKE to convict this guy? And how many people did he kill in the meantime? A producer friend of mine sez that Spector was all kinds of fun in the studio, and that he was ALWAYS packing heat. Crazier than a football bat.
Perhaps Not
Good. Portraying Lana Clarkson as some suicidal nutcase with an insignificant life while this freak has been sticking guns in girls' mouths for years, the verdict is justice, pure and simple. Rot in hell, Phil.
NigelAstydameia
@Perhaps Not: I'd bet dollars to donuts this isn't the first woman he killed.
Throw away the Key (and the wigs PLEASE)
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@Lizawithazee: Excellent point, and I would bet my dick on it.
This brings a whole new sense of irony to his work on the song, 'Death of a Ladies Man'.
...Also, btw, he produced John Lennon's, 'Instant Karma'. I'd say that's about right, except of course, not nearly instant enough for me.
Judging by that picture, it was obvs a crime of fashion
EdithHeadsChignon
@Gawkchalk: That comment is made of win.
That is one hell of a jew-fro.
mr_mr
He shoulda argued the 'do made him do it.
SteveManiac
The next time he hears "Be my little baby", it will have a whole new meaning.
BonMorte
@BonMorte: Be My Little Baby!!, WTF do you think To Know Him is to Love Him is gonna do for his general mood the next time he happens across that one? (Which, I seriously doubt will happen... don't think the G's in cell block 8 are all that into 50's DooWop... Gangbangs, hell yeah!!, but not so much the DooWop.
While I'm certainly not overlooking the heinousness of his crime (and his notorious past behaviour with guns and recording artists), you've gotta hand it to Phil: he always delivers. They don't make wack-jobs like this anymore.
epiclady
@epiclady: Indeed, it's true. This is 100%, grade-A, old-school American Psycho, from before American Psycho was lame.
@Perhaps Not: Rock mythology claims that he once held a gun to John Lennon's head (and Lennon said something like "If you're going to shoot me, bloody well shoot me") and basically held the Ramones hostage whilst producing End Of The Century. He's apparently as tall as a bar stool, but terrifying.
They don't make 'em like this anymore.
epiclady
I do enjoy it. Given the fact that he is headed to prison and Chuck Manson has been there forever, we're getting pretty milquetoast criminals nowadays.
epiclady
@SteveManiac: Unfortunately, whafrosâ„¢ (sorry, I invent awful words when the need arises, this one: white people + afros), are considered minors in the state of California. If anything, he could get double slammed for the corruption of a whafroâ„¢... or just double-slammed by his new roomies. Whichever works for me.
@epiclady: Yeah, that's actually all less mythology and more or less truth-ology, based on my research.
@andyrobertson: I sure hoped it was true: splendid stuff, then! Now who on earth is going to carry on The Legacy Of Batshit Record Producing?
epiclady
River Deep, Mountain High, Jail Cell Neither.
saltwater
@Dr. Nick: And you are a doctor...
katekate is squared
@Perhaps Not:
Ronnie is lucky she escaped that loon.
Is this any way for a Pennsylvania State Senator to go out? I'd say not!
WHAT? It's PHIL Spector? Ohhhh...I thought you said Arlen Specter. I knew something was wrong. After the chemo and all I was surprised to see the hair came back like to top of a dandelion gone to seed...my bad....carry on...
@epiclady: You know he's a total psycho if the Ramones were afraid of him.
@Lizawithazee: Actually, based on the accounts I've heard, they were mostly their placid, unfazed selves. Dee Dee may have reacted, but Joey just shrugged and did his duty and was pretty vocal afterwards about how much respect he had for Spector.
A perfect combo. No wonder that album is the "Sergeant Pepper" of the Ramones' discography. Or maybe the "Destroyer"? KISS totally killed it on that LP.
epiclady