Chris Morris Music ReporterProducer Phil Spector, the legendary studio revolutionary of the ’60s and ’70s who ended his life imprisoned for a 2003 murder, has died.
He was 81.“Phillip Spector, 80, was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital.
His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office,” read the statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.It was not immediately clear why the prison system listed a different age.TMZ reported that he had recently been hospitalized with COVID complications.Biographer Richard Williams noted that Spector single-handedly “turned the producer from an.
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