Phil Spector

Praising Ringo Starr, one drummer to another

USA Today (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

The Beatles maintain a stronghold on the imagination and hearts of music lovers. They win over new generations without trying, ...

Allen KIein - hero or villain?

The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Allen Klein , one of the most influential and controversial figures in music history, has died aged 77. An accountant by profession, he had a long and varied career and created tension and distrust in most of the roles he had. He advised Bobby Darin after meeting him at a friend's wedding, became Sam Cooke's business manager, briefly managed the Rolling Stones and was blamed for the break up of the...

"It's growing in the street right up through the concrete/But soft and sweet and dreaming..."

Althouse (Free subscription) | yesterday

So wrote Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector about the Rose in Spanish Harlem . And then there's the Queen Anne's lace here in Madison... It's growing right up through the concrete, and, even here, Anne/Ann is feeling soft and sweet and dreaming....

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass CD Review

TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

- Of the four Beatles, George Harrison was the first to show his individual songwriting prowess on his solo album “All Things Must Pass.”A standout number is the ethereal “My Sweet Lord,” a song about faith in the unknown and comforting hope in the afterlife. Another hit from the record was “What is Life.” Bob Dylan’s “If Not for You” is a beautiful...

MIF: It Felt Like A Kiss - a spectacular festival coup

Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

It Felt Like A Kiss is a Manchester International Festival collaboration between renowned film-maker Adam Curtis and director Felix Barrett of groundbreaking theatre company Punchdrunk, with original music composed by Blur's Damon Albarn. It could be the MIF's big hit this year "We're...

One Minute With... Gwilym Gold, Golden Silvers

The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

A soul-jazz compilation of Jamaican dancehall music from the 1980s and 1990s, and Kanye West's latest album. I've also been listening to Leonard Cohen's Death of a Ladies' Man, which he made with Phil Spector. It got panned by the critics but it's got some beautiful songs on it.

Album: Various Artists, Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (Universal)

The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Joe Meek is often lazily dubbed "the English Phil Spector"; but despite the shared characteristics of their personal lives (independent spirit, short temper, paranoid psychosis, doomed recourse to gunplay), in the arena which defined their existences – music – they were poles apart.

ENGINEERS: Three fact fader

Daily Express (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

IRRESISTABLE tidal waves of melodic noise flow from the guitars of the Engineers over which they sing - or rather whisper - like spirit rock stars from the other side.

Classic Recording Studios: Amigo Studios

WNEW: Where Rock Lives (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

Amigo Studios was opened on Compston Avenue in North Hollywood in the mid 1960's by legendary producer Snuff Garrett. He used the facility while working as the staff producer and head of AR at Liberty Records (during which time he...

Chart of the Day: MJ death not as interesting as Princess Diana's

The Big Blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009

Interest in Michael Jackson's death was similar to interest in the deaths of "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert and Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press showed Wednesday.

Dusting ‘Em Off: New Radicals – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too

Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009

Yes, after all these years, we still hum the song. But there's more than just a one-hit wonder here. There's a story that's pretty, pretty... pretty cool.

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The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009

One of the many skills radio jocks used to have (a skill not needed much anymore) is the ability to back-time. In days of yore, stations often carried a national network newscast at the top of an hour—say 12 noon. Listeners would hear the last record of the hour end within a few seconds of [...]

Between art and the artist, Michael Jackson's top 10 albums

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009

In Michael Jackson, there was more baggage than usual, a tabloid life so lurid that even now it defies logic that so many people stuck by his side for as long as they did. It comes down to the power of the music.

• Michael Jackson's top 10 albums - San Fransisco Chronicle

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goGlider.com (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009

Public help sought in 1976 slaying of singer's exThe Associated Press... homicide detectives on Tuesday asked the public's help in solving the 1976 rape and killing of the ex-wife of The Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley. ...Police reopen Karen Klass slaying caseDaily BreezeLA detectives look for help in 2 cold casesKTVNall 123 news articles » http://goglider.com/Results/bill%20medley.aspx...

Engineers - Three Fact Fader (Kscope)

Bearded Magazine (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009

Four years after their well-received full-length debut (which followed the 2004 mini album Folly ) Engineers have finally built another hazy wall of sound for our delectation. Producer Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, Maps) gives this the quality of 21st century Phil Spector, an approach that allies itself well with the band’s shoegaze tendencies.

Earl Palmer: Drummed his way into history

kellya | 03/10/2008

He attributed his skill to his early experience as a dancer which, he said, gave him ‘an understanding of rhythmic time’ As the drummer on early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, Earl Palmer helped to invent the backbeat that came to define the sound of rock ’n’ roll. Yet the propulsive rhythm he provided on such seminal 1950s recordings as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally was merely