A songwriter wrote Petula Clark's "Downtown" because he disliked the title of one of Phil Spector's girl group songs.

Love makes the world go round, but love also goes round itself, in the grooves of the majority of the greatest pop songs ever made. But sometimes a song can most simply capture the rapture of ...

Bill Medley confesses that he thought "my recording days were over" since it had been more than a dozen years since the ...

The LP became a Top 10 international hit and went ... in one of his simplest, most touching lyrics. Interestingly, Phil Spector – not Lennon – plays the similarly elliptical piano part.

Realistically, it was inevitable New York City’s Ramones would eventually work with famed producer Phil Spector. After all, the progenitors of punk had demonstrated ... But the later expression of ...

Phil Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector in The Bronx, New York City, on 26 December 1939; died 16 January 2021) was an American former record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the ...

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In 1961, Phil Spector began romancing 18 ... and original song “Vampires.” Break-up songs have provided some of the most visceral lyrics in popular music, whether in a 30s classic such as ...

John Lennon didn't have the big-bang decade-opening album like his former bandmate George Harrison. He didn't turn to more homespun music like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Instead, he simply bared ...

But by the time the 12 months of the decade's middle ended, popular music ... he went all-in with Spector-sized production, an album-length conceptual narrative and songs as big as his ambitions.

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