He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector, Rock & Roll’s Legendary Producer by Mark Ribowsky (Da Capo), $18.
To know him is to loathe him. Judging from this exhaustively researched biography, the mantra from everyone who has known him appears to have been, “Phil was very weird that night.” Inch per inch, pound per pound, Phil Spector has to rank as one of the world’s true blue bastards. Every one of Spector’s myriad devils is revealed in this gripping book: His parents were cousins; he’s manic depressive; he’s short of stature; he primps and preens more than Michael Jackson; he’s a mean drunk, vicious druggie, terrible father, and a shitty husband. His hero is Henry VIII. What’s not to loathe? complete article
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