Ian Whitcomb
Tycoon of Teen
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
By Mick Brown
Bloomsbury 512pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
The career of this legendary record producer has already been covered in many books, so do we need another? I myself have written about the eccentric self-styled ‘genius’ who, in the twilight before Beatle sunshine, conjured up a mighty tsunami of sound to be enjoyed on cheap phonographs and car radios by adolescents of body or brain.
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