The Shadow of Phil Spector

As he settled into madness and his torture of wife Ronnie Spector, the producer relied on work from friends such as The Beatles and Leonard Cohen.

“I have devils inside me.' I'm my own worst enemy.... To all intents and purposes I would say I am probably relatively insane...”

--Phil Spector to Mick Brown, author of Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector—

The tortured genius who secludes himself from the world because of hypersensitivity, illness, insecurity, drug abuse, ma…