Spector's father committed suicide on April 20, 1949. His grandfather was an immigrant from Russia with the surname Spekter, which he anglicized to Spector after immigrating. Spector was born on December 26, 1939, to a lower-middle-class Jewish family in the Bronx in New York City. He is serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life. In 2009, Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California, home. The 1965 song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", produced and co-written by Spector for the Righteous Brothers, is listed by BMI as the song with the most U.S. In 1989, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. He produced the Beatles' album Let It Be, and the Grammy Award-winning Concert for Bangladesh by former Beatle George Harrison. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim. Among his famous girl groups are the Ronettes and the Crystals. The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl-group sound and produced more than twenty-five Top 40 hits from 1960 to 1965, writing or co-writing many of them. Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, Decem ) is an American record producer and songwriter.
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