"to simulate sex acts with his girlfriend. In the 1980s, Spector had twin children with then-girlfriend Janis Zavala: Nicole Audrey Spector and Phillip Spector, Jr. (born October 18, 1982). Phillip Jr. died of leukemia on December 25, 1991. On September 1, 2006, Spector, while on bail and awaiting trial, married his third wife Rachelle Short, who was 26 at the time. Spector filed for divorce in April 2016, claiming irreconcilable differences. In the first criminal trial for the Clarkson murder, defense expert Vincent DiMaio asserted that Spector may be suffering from Parkinson's disease, stating, ""Look at Mr. Spector. He has"
"Parkinson's features. He trembles."" Department of Corrections photos from 2013 (released in September 2014) show evidence of a progressive deterioration in Spector's health, according to observers. He has been an inmate at the California Health Care Facility (a prison hospital) in Stockton since October 2013. In September 2014, it was reported that Spector had lost his ability to speak due to laryngeal papillomatosis. Phil Spector Phillip Harvey Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a Wagnerian approach to"
"""On September 26, the jury reported itself dead-locked, ten to two in favor of conviction, and incapable of reaching a decision. The Judge declared a mistrial. On October 3rd, the Prosecution announced that they would retry the case. Due to her illness, Linda Kenney Baden was unable to participate in the second trial, whose jury, on April 13th, 2009, found Phil Spector guilty of Second Degree Murder and sentenced him to nineteen years to life in California State Prison, Corcoran where he resides today."" In an interview in 2013, ""Phil Spector""′s writer and director, David Mamet, explained that, although he"
"Top 10 singles for various artists, but following work with Leonard Cohen, Dion DiMucci, and the Ramones, he remained largely inactive. From 2007 to 2009, he was the subject of a trial and retrial for murder. He is serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life and will be 88 years old before becoming eligible for parole. Harvey Phillip Spector was born on December 26, 1939 to Benjamin and Bertha Spector, a first-generation immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx, New York City. His father was an ironworker from Ukraine with the surname ""Spekter"", which he later anglicized to ""Spector""."
"element"". Tearing Down the Wall of Sound Tearing Down the Wall of Sound is a biography of record producer Phil Spector, written by Mick Brown and published in 2008. Between 1961 and 1966, Spector's so-called ""Wall of Sound"" made him the most successful pop-record producer in the world, with more than 20 hits by artists such as The Righteous Brothers, The Crystals, and the Ronettes. Later in his life Spector became a recluse. While Brown was working on this book, actress Lana Clarkson was found shot dead in Spector’s foyer, and so the book is said to have an ""inevitable"
"to certify the case for further appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In August 2015, Spector's lawyers filed another motion for a certificate of appealability to the Ninth Circuit. As of 2009, Spector is serving his sentence at the California Health Care Facility, California State Prison (Stockton, California). He will be 88 years old before becoming eligible for parole. ""Phil Spector"", a 2013 HBO film written and directed by David Mamet and starring Al Pacino as Spector and Helen Mirren as defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, depicted a fictionalized account of the murder and first trial. The film"
"Tearing Down the Wall of Sound Tearing Down the Wall of Sound is a biography of record producer Phil Spector, written by Mick Brown and published in 2008. Between 1961 and 1966, Spector's so-called ""Wall of Sound"" made him the most successful pop-record producer in the world, with more than 20 hits by artists such as The Righteous Brothers, The Crystals, and the Ronettes. Later in his life Spector became a recluse. While Brown was working on this book, actress Lana Clarkson was found shot dead in Spector’s foyer, and so the book is said to have an ""inevitable true-crime"
"Phil Spector Phillip Harvey Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a Wagnerian approach to rock and roll. Spector was dubbed the ""First Tycoon of Teen"" by writer Tom Wolfe and is acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in pop music history. Later in his life, he became notorious for the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson, for which he was convicted of second degree murder. Born in the Bronx, Spector began his career in 1958"
"Phil Spector (film) Phil Spector is a television film directed and written by David Mamet. The film is based on the murder trials of music producer, songwriter and musician Phil Spector and was released in the United States by HBO Films, premiering on HBO on March 24, 2013. It stars Al Pacino as Phil Spector, Helen Mirren as defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, and Jeffrey Tambor as defense attorney Bruce Cutler. It focuses primarily on the relationship between Phil Spector and Linda Kenney Baden, his defense attorney in 2007 during the first of his two murder trials for the 2003"
"artist to have a number one album while serving a prison sentence. It achieved multi platinum status and has sold 3,524,567 copies in the United States as of 2011. Tupac Shakur's virtual appearance at the annual Coachella Festival (April 15, 2012) led to the album selling 1,000 copies the following week (up by 53% from the previous week). Credits for ""Me Against the World"" adapted from AllMusic Me Against the World Me Against the World is the third studio album by American rapper 2Pac, released on March 14, 1995 by Out Da Gutta/Interscope Records. Drawing lyrical inspiration from his impending"
"Records was scheduled for release in 2016 being executively produced by Jahlil Beats. though it was later postponed due to Shmurda's imprisonment. Shmurda freestyled for rapper Meek Mill in February 2017 and claimed that he was still writing music while in prison, indicating that he was preparing music for his eventual release. Shmurda, while incarcerated, featured on fellow rapper 6ix9ine's single ""Stoopid"", released on October 5, 2018. On June 3, 2014, Pollard was arrested and charged with felony criminal possession of a weapon. Police claim they saw him flashing the gun in an apartment and when they went to investigate,"
"sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. It produced the singles ""Stay Too Long"", ""She Said"", ""Prayin'"", The Recluse"", ""Love Goes Down"", ""Writing's on the Wall"" and ""Hard Times"". The album has sold 1.4 million copies in the UK as of May 2018. Drew had always wanted to make his second album as a concept album and he had previously abandoned an attempt to make a hip hop follow up to his debut ""Who Needs Actions When You Got Words"". After learning more about the technical aspects of"
"Patrick Stump, Soundtrakk and Unkle, among others. The album debuted at number 15 on the US ""Billboard"" 200, selling 143,407 copies in its first week. The album debuted as the number-one rap record and remained for 9 weeks. To date, the album was a certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). At the 2009 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for the Best Rap Album. While Fiasco was recording his second album, his father died of type II diabetes, his good friend Stack Bundles died, and his business partner and mentor—Charles ""Chilly"" Patton—was sentenced to 44 years"
"on the U.S. ""Billboard"" 200. In October 2012, Mill announced the launch of his own label imprint, Dream Chasers Records, named after his mixtape series. Meek Mill often collaborates with fellow MMG label-mates; he is also known for his appearances on MMG's ""Self Made"" compilation series, with his first two singles, ""Tupac Back"" and ""Ima Boss"", being included on volume one. In November 2017, he was sentenced to two to four years in prison for violating parole and served five months at the State Correctional Institution – Chester in Chester, Pennsylvania, before being released while his trial continues. Meek Mill"
"for parole in 2042. Conway was sentenced to 18 years, and Leerdam was sentenced to life in prison. Following his verdict, his fourteenth mixtape ""Million Dollar Baby 3"" was released on June 30. His fifteenth mixtape and sixth installment in his ""Public Domain"" series, ""PD6: Walking The Plank"", was released on July 12. Notable tracks off the record include ""Dead Solver"", ""Never Wanna Go Back"", ""Letter To Stack Bundles"", and ""What You Want From Me"" featuring Beanie Sigel and French Montana. His collaborative mixtape ""Coke Wave 2"" with French was released on November 3, 2009. Albeit in prison since June"
"A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (originally released as A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records) is an album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, and originally released as Philles 45 in 1963. Spector treated a series of mostly secular Christmas standards to his ""Wall of Sound"" treatment, and the selections feature the vocal performances of Spector's regular artists during this period. The album peaked at number 13 on ""Billboard"" magazine's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Albums sales chart in December 1963. The album was reissued by Apple Records"
"in his black Mercedes Benz outside of the Crescent Court housing project where his mother lived. Eroy Kindell was convicted of second degree murder and has been recently released from prison. His accomplice Stephen ""Sticks"" Fernandes was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life without parole. UPC: 075679170828 Chris Bender (singer) Christopher Lamont Bender, known as Chris Bender, (August 2, 1972 – November 3, 1991) was an American R&B singer who reached the national music charts in 1991 with the album entitled ""Draped"" before his murder. He was from the Boston, Massachusetts area, growing up in Brockton, Massachusetts"
"to author Matthew Bannister. During the 1980s, ""Jangle and drone plus reverberation create[d] a contemporary equivalent of Spector's 'Wall of Sound' — a massive, ringing, cavernous noise and a device used by many indie groups: Flying Nun, from Sneaky Feelings' ""Send You"" to Straitjacket Fits and the JPS Experience"". He cites 1960s psychedelic and garage rock such as the Byrds' ""Eight Miles High"" (1966) as a primary musical influence on the movement. Wall of Sound The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios"
"instincts that led him to create some of his most enduring hit records, from ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"" to ""River Deep, Mountain High"", as well as ""Let It Be"", along with criticisms he feels he has had to deal with throughout his life. On February 3, 2003 actress Lana Clarkson died in Spector's mansion (the Pyrenees Castle) in Alhambra, California. Her body was found slumped in a chair with a single gunshot wound to her mouth with broken teeth scattered over the carpet. Spector told ""Esquire"" in July 2003 that Clarkson's death was an ""accidental suicide"" and that she"
"arose from the shooting of a Memphis,Tennessee police officer in early 2004. He was sentenced to 10 years of incarceration. In 2006, he entered an Alford plea in Tennessee state court to second-degree attempted murder, based on the same incident, and was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. While incarcerated Ke'Noe released two albums of unreleased Turk verses called ""Still A Hot Boy"" and ""Convicted Felons"". The albums profits of the last two releases were put on Turk's prison books. Turk was released from prison in October 2012 after almost nine years of incarceration. In December 2012, Turk made a hit"
"SPK, best known as producer of the Reggaeton song 'Oye Mi Canto', offered Temperamento the opportunity to appear on his first album with Gemstar & Big Mato's ""Mas Pure."" The song, which featured popular Hispanic artists such as Tony Touch and N.O.R.E, was a commercial success. Temperamento recorded several albums from 2005 to 2010, with individual music videos garnering hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. In 2010, Temperamento was sentenced to 27 months in prison for having committed an armed robbery one and a half years prior to the sentencing. A month before he began serving his prison sentence,"
"with Xterminator producer Philip ""Fatis"" Burrell on the ""Love Jah"" single and the album that followed in 1998. The following year, he released ""Watch Over We"" on RAS Records. He recorded his next album, ""Runaway Slave"", but his career was interrupted when he received a three and a half year prison sentence, of which he served 18 months, for what he described as ""just a likkle thing that happened with me and babylon"". His fifth album is scheduled for release in 2014. Prince Malachi Prince Malachi (born Mark Wynter, 1969, London, England) is an English roots reggae singer. Wynter was"
"after Big Lurch was sentenced to life in prison for murder, after allegedly killing a female acquaintance and eating parts of her flesh while under the influence of PCP. The album was originally titled ""The Puppet Master"" but was changed to ""It's All Bad"" after Singleton was convicted. The somewhat controversial photo cover of the album was chosen by Cedric Singleton; Lurch had no control over the record after his incarceration. Big Lurch Antron Singleton (born September 15, 1976), better known by his stage name Big Lurch, is an American rapper and convicted murderer. He is serving a life sentence"
"containing a new remastering of the mono album by Vic Anesini on the first disc and a selection of non-Christmas Spector hits and rarities on the second disc. ""Recorded at Gold Star recording studio"" A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (originally released as A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records) is an album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, and originally released as Philles 45 in 1963. Spector treated a series of mostly secular Christmas standards to his ""Wall of Sound"" treatment, and the selections feature the vocal"
"Digital Tears: E-mail from Purgatory Digital Tears: E-Mail from Purgatory is 2004 album by underground rapper MF Grimm. The LP is Grimm's second solo album and the first to be credited to both GM Grimm and the Monsta Island Czars moniker Jet Jaguar. Grimm recorded the entire album over a two-day period, and wrote the album and composed the drum beats on a portable drum machine while serving his life sentence in prison. This album is the darkest in Grimm's catalog and reflects the environment surrounding him during the composition. It was the first release after Grimm's release from prison."
"a special entitled ""Phil Spector: The Agony and the Ecstasy"", by Vikram Jayanti. It consists of Spector's first screen interview—breaking a long period of media silence. During the conversation, images from the murder court case are juxtaposed with live appearances of his tracks on television programs from the 1960s and 1970s, along with subtitles giving critical interpretation of some of his song production values. While he does not directly try to clear his name, the court case proceedings shown try to give further explanation of the facts surrounding the murder charges leveled against him. He also speaks about the musical"
"distribute 7,000 lbs of marijuana. While awaiting sentencing, Woolsey recorded ""Freedom,"" an album of original songs. It was released independently and became available on iTunes and streaming music services. After recording ""Freedom,"" Woolsey was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison, reporting to serve his sentence in 2008. He's projected to be released in 2017. In April 2014, Woolsey asked President Barack Obama for a commutation of his remaining sentence. He is still waiting to hear whether it has been approved or denied. Woolsey has spent his time in prison writing and performing new songs. After his release, he plans"
"in the U.S. since the original label's demise, although Spector had released several Philles Records compilations in Britain. Finally, he released an American compilation of his Philles recordings in 1977, which put most of the better-known Spector hits back into circulation after many years. Spector began to reemerge in the late 1970s, producing and co-writing a controversial 1977 album by Leonard Cohen, entitled ""Death of a Ladies' Man"". This angered many devout Cohen fans who preferred his stark acoustic sound to the orchestral and choral wall of sound that the album contains. The recording was fraught with difficulty. After Cohen"
"12"" vinyl single December 2003 in promotion of the album. Digital Tears: E-mail from Purgatory Digital Tears: E-Mail from Purgatory is 2004 album by underground rapper MF Grimm. The LP is Grimm's second solo album and the first to be credited to both GM Grimm and the Monsta Island Czars moniker Jet Jaguar. Grimm recorded the entire album over a two-day period, and wrote the album and composed the drum beats on a portable drum machine while serving his life sentence in prison. This album is the darkest in Grimm's catalog and reflects the environment surrounding him during the composition."
"his direction for the album. Both singles from the album were produced by Kershaw and Julian Mendelsohn, whilst the two also re-worked the production of the entire album, earning them an additional production credit. The song's lyrics refer to American convict Willie Darden and his intimate relationship via letters with Elisabeth Allen from Stanford, England. Darden was convicted for a murder that occurred during the robbery of a furniture store. Allen and others in America were convinced of Darden's innocence and consistently battled for a reprieve. In early 1988, after spending years on death row, the State of Florida executed"
"On 18 December 2013, Watkins was sentenced to 29 years in prison, plus 6 years on extended licence, with a possibility of parole after serving two-thirds of his sentence. On 25 April 2014, it was confirmed by ex-Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly that he would be working with the remaining band members on their new project, from a record label perspective through his own label, Collect Records, as a producer and also joining them as a vocalist. Rickly regarded their new material as having influences from Joy Division, New Order and The Cure. It was announced the new band would be"
"for the families of those killed in the riots, which took place at the Apollo Theater in New York. This performance was released on the 1998 ""John Lennon Anthology"" box set. Coincidentally, Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, was incarcerated in Attica Correctional Facility on a life sentence from 1981 until 2012, when he was moved to Wende Correctional Facility. Personnel on the ""Some Time in New York City"" recording are: Attica State (song) ""Attica State"" is a song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It appeared on the album, ""Some Time in New York City"". The song is a lamentation"
"Live at San Quentin (Charles Manson album) Live at San Quentin is a bootleg album by American folk musician and convicted murder-conspirator Charles Manson, and was released on Grey Matter Records, in 1993. The album consists of live recordings produced by Manson directly from his cell in the California Medical Facility in 1983. As a result, the tracks suffer from poor sound quality, and various noises from the penitentiary interject throughout the album. All of the material on ""Live at San Quentin"" was distributed earlier on the rare cassette ""White Rasta"". Faced with serving a life sentence for conspiracy to"