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Blood on the Tracks is the production of I Heart

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Radio and Double Elvis. Phil

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Spector was a musical genius, one of

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the most successful record producers of all time.

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He's now sitting behind bars, serving a nineteen

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years to life sentence for murder. This

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is his story told by

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his so called friends. This

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is Special Agent Paul Ramone with the Federal

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Bureau of Investigation work in case

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number double oh four Dash ten Dash seven

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one nine case subject to Specter

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Philip Harvey. This information

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pertains to appear at ending February

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two thousand nine. Interview subject

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to Specter phil Interview number

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six Dash six six dash oh four

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one dash three zero nine Recall

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number ten March first, two thousand

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nine.

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What I want to know is, how

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can somebody who gave his whole

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life to music, who

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made such fucking great records,

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and you know I did, You've

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admitted I did. How

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could they have hated me? How

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could they still hate me? They

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don't understand me? How

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could they have hated me? How

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could they hate somebody whose

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records are filled with so much

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love and not only love, but

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honesty and so

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much pure fucking talent, But

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nobody wants to talk about any of that when

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they talk about me. The

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only thing anyone thinks of when they think about

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me is the blood on

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the tracks. Yeah.

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Chapter ten, Phil

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Specter and Phil Specter.

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I think rage is what comes out when

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you're disrespected, and rage

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is what makes you better. I

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wasn't respected like Gershwin or Berlin,

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and that lack of respect just build up the

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anger and rage inside of me made

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me do better. It's what made

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Miles Davis do better. Miles Davis,

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Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, all

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those people did better because they were disrespected.

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They took that disrespect and they put it direct

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lee into their music, into their art.

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That's what makes their music art. Look

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at Tony Bennett. Tony Bennett

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was the biggest cocaine addict in the nineteen sixties.

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Tony Bennett and cocaine were like peanut butter

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and jelly in the nineteen sixties. And then

3:15

years later he cleans up his act and

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nobody talks about his past drug addictions.

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Nobody treats him with disrespect. But

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anytime someone talks about Miles Davis,

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they talk about the drug problems, even

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if the drug problems were long behind him.

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Look at Woody Allen. Woody

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Allen will always be a pervert, no

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matter what else he's done. He'll

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always be scarred because he married his daughter,

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even though she's not his daughter, she's

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his adopted daughter. But that's

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always on the public's mind because

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the public doesn't like him, and

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the public doesn't like me. If

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they like you, they won't talk about those

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things. It's just the way it goes. If

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they don't like you, if they think we've

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done something wrong, they'll screw

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you. The media, the

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police. That's how the media works,

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that's how the police work. It's a mob

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mentality, and you gotta put energy

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into living it down. Look

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at the Beatles tapes, the Let

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It Be tapes. They weren't

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cared for, they were not guarded.

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I found them like someone finds trash

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in a dumpster, and I

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made something out of those tapes. I

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turned that pile of trash into a commercial

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success. They went straight

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to number one. But

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look how they treat me, how they talk

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about me, like I was the one who

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sucked it all up. Now

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did George Martin touch those tapes? He

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didn't have anything to do with those tapes. He

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wanted to be as far from them as possible.

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But look how they treat George Martin. He

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was made as Sir. Paul McCartney.

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He was made as Sir. Elton

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John was made to serve. Bob

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Dylan got an honorary degree from a college.

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Buddy Holly was given a stamp. Now,

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I love Buddy Holly, but he only

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lived three years in rock and roll. I've

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been around a lot longer than that, and I've

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made more of an impact. You've

5:19

got to have some perspective, But

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who has time for perspective when it's so much

5:23

easier to jump to a predetermined conclusion.

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A conclusion where Buddy Holly is a saint

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and Phil Specter is a problem.

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Buddy Holly was no saint. I can tell

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you that Elton

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John was no saint. I

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don't need a stamp necessarily, but

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a little respect would go a long way. I've

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done more for music than any of those people. I've

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at least done as much as they have his

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whole life. But see,

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that's what I'm talking about. And it's

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not just disrespect either. It's

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misunderstanding. It's

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the plight of the miss understood, the misseen.

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I've always been misunderstood from a

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very early age. I

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realized early on that I was a loner in school.

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I was different. We were poor.

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Everyone else was middle or upper

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class. I wasn't popular,

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wasn't part of any clique. I

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took that lack of respect, that

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lack of respect that I felt from a very young

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age, and I made myself better. I

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don't understand. I

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helped the football players with their homework so

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that they could pass their classes and stay on the team,

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and in return, they offered me protection. I've

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always found that protection comforting but

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also necessary, necessary

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because I would continue to be misunderstood throughout

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my life, and it helped

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me keep those who wanted to disrespect or

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mistreat me at arm's length. Having

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bodyguards follow your around as a statement,

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it's a statement that says I would like

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to be left alone. Everyone

7:02

else in school were a bunch of losers anyway.

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None of them challenged society or dared

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to be different. I was the only

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one who was different, and I had to protect

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that. French

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When I first broke into show business with the

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Teddy Bears in I

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was still misunderstood. I

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should have seen it coming as early as that first

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saw to know him is to love him.

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I should have seen the writing on the wall, because

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no one knew what it was about. Everyone

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just thought it was some gooey love song, some

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puppy dog love song that Annette sang.

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Of course they did. The whole world

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was just like my high school class losers.

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Nobody's they didn't get

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it. They don't

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understand. Nobody

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knew that that song was about my father, that

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it was about death, that

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it was a love song to someone in the Great yawned.

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That kind of tragedy leaves a scar. When

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your father blows his head open, that's

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not funny. I

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was just nine when he took his own life. He

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sat in the front seat of his car back in Brooklyn,

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connected a tube to the exhaust, put

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the tube in the window, and just swam

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in it. And that's

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what was on his tombstone. To

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know him is to love him.

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The pain is always there. It's

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a constant. To hurt

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is a natural phenomenon, especially

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for an artist. Da Vinci felt

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pain. Wagner felt

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pain. I feel pain, but

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I don't get depressed. I don't

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allow myself to get depressed. It's

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a waste of emotion. I

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envy the little old lady who sits in front of

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the TV set and believes who

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praise and believe She'll go to he

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event and says, Amen, just believes

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it all. I'd like to believe

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I resent her and I'm jealous of her. I

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wish I believed the way that George Harrison

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believed. I recorded

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My Sweet Lord with him, and I convinced

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myself in that moment that I believed

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you have to you have to

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to make it authentic. That's

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why I was different from other producers special

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Most producers just interpret. I

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would create. It was

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like what Da Vinci did when he approached a canvas,

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he would turn himself over to it. Now

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on the flip side, I also recorded God

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with John Lennon, which was about

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not believing, not believing

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in anything other than yourself. You see,

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it was the complete opposite of George's record,

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and I approached that the same way I approached

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My Sweet Lord. I was there to

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create, to make something that people would be

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in awe for years to come, and

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it didn't matter what I believe. I

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wish I believe that God would look after me

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the way I've been disrespected misunderstood

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in my life. I think it's obvious

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that if there is a God, he's

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not looking out for me at all. And

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like John, I only believe in myself.

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That doesn't bring me much comfort. In fact,

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it scares me to death. It

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scares me to death because I may not believe

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in God, but I

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know there's a devil. You

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want to talk about lack of respect, Let's

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talk about the police. Let's talk

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about the Los Angeles Police Department, the

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Alhambra Police Department. I

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said it before with Lenny Bruce, and I'll say

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it again with me. The police

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are too much an overdose

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of police.

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They walk the s S walk. They

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rule with an iron fucking fist. That's

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how they treat people like me and people

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like Lenny, people who are different,

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people who stand up and say what they

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think and what they believe. They

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take it too far. They

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take it too far with people who have never

11:42

given any indication that they believe themselves

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to be above the law, people

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who put their money where their mouth is. The

11:51

last time I checked, this was a free country,

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is it not. I can

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say what I want and print what I want.

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I'm not breaking the laws.

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I didn't make any friends with the police over the years,

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going back all the way to when Lenny died and I

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paid for all those full page ads in Billboard

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and cash box, and then

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I had a few run ins with them over the years,

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the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Daisy Club

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and all that, all misunderstandings

12:23

again, and I had a license

12:25

to carry the gun. But

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see, that's how they decide,

12:30

How they preemptively decide that they don't

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like you, that you are one of the bad

12:35

ones, and then they disrespect

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you. They beat

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Miles Davis in the head until he bled

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while he was smoking a cigarette outside bird

12:44

Land between sets at his own

12:46

gig. They had already

12:48

decided that they didn't like him because

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he was black, because he was a musician,

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because he was in their way on the sidewalk, just

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smoking a cigarette. The cops

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who came to my home would as a

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castle. By the way, the cops

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who came to my home on the morning of February

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third, two thousand three, were the same way.

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Sixteen cops, sixteen

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al Hambra cops showed up on my doorstep.

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We had called for a paramedic. We

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had a lady who was injured in the foyer of my

13:17

home and needed a paramedic. But

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did they send a paramedic. No,

13:22

they sent sixteen cops who wanted

13:24

to interrogate me on the stairs outside my

13:27

home. And meanwhile, this girl has

13:29

slumped lifeless across the chair and my foyer.

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Was she alive? Was she dead?

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I didn't know, and they didn't know either,

13:37

because they were wasting time arguing with me

13:40

outside. I'm not a paramedic.

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They argued with me for forty five minutes before

13:45

they came inside.

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And when they did come inside, they came inside

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like animals. They were drunken

13:56

animals. How do I know that

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they weren't drunk? No, I never read

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the cops the Riot Act that day the way they

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read it to me. They

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came in barnstorming. There

14:06

were stormtroopers. They were

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fucking gestapo. I'm five

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ft five, barely forty

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pounds. They knocked

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me down, They broke my nose,

14:18

they gave me two black eyes, they

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cracked my spine, and

14:23

then they tasered me with fifty volts

14:25

of electricity. They knocked

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me down on the floor of my own home, and

14:30

we were still waiting for the paramedics. They

14:33

could have saved her, obviously, a

14:35

terrible mistakes, but

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it's not terribly supposing that he

14:40

could make such a mistake. Mist And

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what about her. I had just

14:44

met her that night. She didn't

14:46

even know who I was. At first. I

14:48

barely knew anything about her. All

14:51

I knew was what she had told me during the few hours

14:53

we were together that night. I

14:55

knew she was an actress, though I don't think I had

14:57

ever seen any of her movies. But

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I don't know if she was depressed. Like

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I said before, I don't let myself get

15:05

depressed, so I don't know that I

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would know if I saw it. And

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again, to hurt is a natural

15:12

phenomenon, so maybe she was hurting

15:14

in that moment. I don't know if

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she meant to take her own life or

15:18

if it was an accident. She was intoxicated

15:21

when I first met her. She took an open

15:23

bottle of tequila with her from the House of Blues

15:25

to the car. She was taking

15:27

vicodin. She must have hurt.

15:31

I know her. People

15:34

have said the opposite about me, that I

15:36

don't have any sympathy or empathy. They've

15:39

said horrible things about me about how

15:41

I treated them, How did

15:43

I treat Ronnie so poorly. I

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loved Ronnie. I gave her everything

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away. I

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welcomed these people into my house. Debbie

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Harry, Leonard Cohne, the

15:58

Ramons, Tina Turner. I

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had them all to the Big House on La Collina,

16:03

Mikasa Sukasa. I

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saved the Beatles. I got

16:08

John and George back on their feet when the Beatles

16:10

broke up. You're just shooting talking.

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How could they have hated me? How

16:17

can they still hate me? How

16:20

could they hate somebody whose records were filled

16:22

with so much love before?

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All these people were confused. I

16:29

think Adriana was confused that morning,

16:32

the morning of February three, I

16:34

think he was confused, and he was in shock. It's

16:37

hard to understand what he says half the time.

16:40

The kids from Brazil, you know, and

16:42

he still has a ways to go before he masters

16:44

the English language. He saw

16:46

me come out of the house and I was visibly

16:48

upset. Sure I

16:50

was holding the revolver. There

16:54

was blood. There

16:56

had been a terrible accident. We

16:58

were in the foyer, me and Lana.

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I held the gun, she held

17:04

the gun. At some point

17:06

the gun went off. What else

17:08

is there to tell you? I'm

17:10

sure I wasn't making any sense. When I walked

17:12

outside to talk to Adriano. The

17:15

regular guy Dylan. Now,

17:18

maybe he would have understood what I was saying better

17:21

if he had been there, Maybe he would have told the

17:23

cops something different than all of this would

17:25

have been different. But whatever

17:27

I said to Adriana, I can't

17:30

even remember what I said. I

17:32

think he just misheard what I said and had

17:34

a hard time communicating that to the authorities.

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You just aren't in your right mind in that kind of situation.

17:42

None of us are. It's

17:45

a shock to the system.

17:47

You can't think straight. I can't

17:49

talk straight.

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It was my word against everyone else's words.

17:59

It had always been my word against everyone

18:01

else's. Maybe that's where

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the word genius comes from,

18:05

the gene in us. What

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can I say? I wasn't

18:11

like everybody else. We'll

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be right back after this word word

18:23

word. You

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know somebody wants. Asked me a question.

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I said, Philip, aren't

18:34

you lonely in this big house? All

18:38

those rooms to roam around in?

18:43

Damn must be lonely. And

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you know what I said, I

18:50

said, you

18:53

ever live in one room

18:57

very lonely? Just

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you in the bathroom, man, you

19:04

in the sink you

19:06

in the toilet. Loneliness

19:09

is a state of mind. You

19:13

know what's lonely? Feeling

19:15

like you're the only one on your side. Lonely

19:19

is having no control over your fate.

19:22

My fate is in the hands of twelve

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people who voted for George Bush.

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What kind of justice is that the

19:31

jurors filled out this questionnaire of

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them said I was guilty from the get go, from

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said I'm insane, and the

19:41

judge hates me.

19:43

How is

19:46

that justice? It's rigged.

19:49

The whole system is rigged. The cops

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had their mind made up before they

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even walked into my house the castle

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that morning. The

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jury had their minds it up, the

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judge, the press, the

20:03

media. How could they hate

20:05

somebody whose records

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are filled so much love

20:11

and so much pure fucking

20:13

talent. You

20:15

probably have your mind made up, but

20:19

you don't even know. You haven't

20:21

even tried to know. They don't understand.

20:25

I lost my father when I was nine, man,

20:28

I learned about true loneliness before

20:31

anyone should. I lost my

20:33

father, I lost Philip

20:35

Jr. Wife after wife

20:37

left me, I lost John to

20:39

that lunatic. What

20:42

about my loss? Doesn't

20:44

that count for something? And

20:47

the friends that I thought I had, were

20:49

they even friends to begin with? I

20:53

mean ship Man, When I Turner

20:55

was down on his luck, when they put him

20:57

in prison in Coke, who

21:00

visited him in prison? Who did? I

21:03

did? Motherfucker shore?

21:07

And when he got out, who helped him get on his feet

21:09

financially? And he's

21:11

going to talk about me not paying for his

21:13

cab to come to a party. When

21:16

Darlene Love was cleaning houses and

21:18

trying to make ends meet, when she was

21:20

desperate and had no one to go to, no

21:23

one to help, who

21:26

helped her? Who helped her pay her rent

21:28

for a year? Man? That

21:30

was me? That

21:33

was me? And

21:35

now this poor woman's life has ended

21:38

accidentally or on purpose, we'll

21:40

never know. It ended

21:42

in the foyer of my castle. And

21:44

all the fingers of all these people, these

21:47

people that I helped, your

21:49

Lord, all these fingers

21:51

are pointed at me. It's convenient

21:54

for them to forget about everything else. They

21:57

all need someone to be the pats here. I'm

22:00

there, Patsy. Apparently I'm

22:02

the guide. And

22:05

so they spread these rumors, and that's what they

22:07

are. Rumors, Rumors

22:09

about my character, rumors

22:12

about my actions and my impulses.

22:15

They spread these rumors to make themselves feel

22:17

better and to drag my

22:19

name through the mud. They're

22:22

all rewriting history, that's what they're

22:24

doing. They're rewriting

22:26

history so that years down the road,

22:29

when people talk about Phil Specter, people

22:31

are only going to talk about this awful thing

22:33

that happened in my home, about

22:35

how I'm a bully. How can somebody

22:39

whose records are

22:41

so They

22:44

aren't going to talk about you've

22:46

lost that love and feeling, or

22:48

imagine, or about he's

22:51

a rebel. They're not honesty.

22:56

They're not going to talk about how I pioneered

22:58

a revolution in pop music. I

23:00

was the bridge between Elvis and the beatles

23:03

Man. That's what John said. Pure

23:06

talent. I

23:10

was twenty when I made my first number

23:13

one record.

23:17

I created a new sound, a

23:19

new way to make records.

23:22

That kind of person doesn't just come along

23:24

every day because

23:27

they don't know that kind of person. You see

23:30

the police, the district attorney,

23:33

the judge, even the jury

23:35

man. They've never been around that kind

23:37

of person before. They wouldn't

23:40

know a musical genius from Adam.

23:42

They don't understand. Most

23:46

of them are so young that the whole era is lost

23:48

on them. They don't recognize

23:50

the songs. But

23:52

you know what kind of person these people all know, an

23:56

evil person, murderers,

23:59

the eves, monsters,

24:03

the district attorney and the judge and the police.

24:06

They're all around those kinds of people all day,

24:08

every day. So that's all they see.

24:14

If they look at a person, and it doesn't matter

24:16

how many hit records he has, or how many

24:18

mansions he's owned, how

24:20

many beatles he has in his rolodex.

24:24

They look at a person and they see the worst.

24:27

That's what they're paid to do. And

24:29

then the jurors, they're on a steady

24:32

diet of law and order, judge,

24:34

judy or whatever the cop or courtroom

24:36

TV show of the day is. They

24:39

speak in remedial legalise. They

24:42

think they're all junior detectives,

24:46

but they don't know anything about it. They

24:49

say, I was standing close to her when the gun went

24:51

off, but I was only two feet away.

24:54

That's what the forensics team said. Well,

24:57

what does the forensics team know about anything? They

25:00

weren't there. All they have is

25:02

one piece of the puzzle, a tiny

25:04

little piece that they looked at under a microscope.

25:07

They aren't privy to the circumstances.

25:10

They don't know who was doing what or who was saying

25:12

what. They don't know anything about

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it, None of them do. I

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can't really venture to guess some what he was thinking.

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They all think they know me, but

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they've never tried to know me, and

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they never will. M

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April two thousand nine,

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Los Angeles, six

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years after the death of Lana Clarkson,

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Bill Specter was found guilty of second

26:13

degree murder. At the time

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of his sentencing, he was sixty nine

26:17

years old. It was Specter's

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second murder trial in two years.

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The first trial, in two thousand seven,

26:25

was televised. Specter did

26:27

not testify. The

26:29

jury deliberated for fifteen days, but

26:31

couldn't reach the necessary unanimous verdict.

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It ended in mistrial hung jury.

26:37

The second trial was the charm

26:40

At the retrial, prosecutors called Specter

26:42

a very dangerous man in detail

26:45

of his history playing Russian Roulette

26:47

with women. Specter's lawyers

26:49

fought back and went after Specter's own personal

26:51

bad guys, the cops. The

26:54

judge noted that this was not an isolated

26:56

incident, the taking of innocent human

26:59

life. He said, it doesn't get any more serious

27:01

than that. Specter's

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love of firearms, his uncontrollable

27:06

temper, and his violent and volatile

27:08

history with women came back to haunt him.

27:11

Even his music, his art came

27:13

back to haunt him. One of the first songs

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he recorded with the Crystals, he Hit Me and

27:17

It Felt Like a Kiss, certainly didn't

27:19

do any favors to his notorious reputation.

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After a five month trial, the jury returned

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their unanimous verdict. Specter

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sat in the courtroom stone faced as

27:29

the judge read the verdicts nineteen

27:32

years to life. Specter

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stared straight ahead, stared out at

27:36

his space. He made no movement. All

27:38

he did was blink his eyes. He showed

27:41

no emotion. He didn't indicate that he

27:43

was listening at all. In

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addition to the sentence, Specter was

27:47

ordered to write a check to the Clarkson family

27:49

for seventeen grand to cover funeral

27:51

expenses. The judge

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denied Specter's request for a third trial.

27:57

Specter's lawyer promised to appeal,

27:59

and then man who once said I could

28:01

strut sitting down I was so brazen

28:04

walked a far less confident strut

28:07

from the courtroom directly to jail.

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The bailiff shuffled Specter out of the courtroom,

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out of his dark pinstriped suit and red

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silk tie, and into his California Department

28:18

of Corrections issued costume. That

28:21

moment of transition sealed the deal.

28:23

He was no longer Phil Specter the producer,

28:25

or Phil Specter the musical genius.

28:28

He was no longer Phil Specter, the supposed

28:30

celebrity. He was now Phil

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Specter, the murderer, Phil

28:35

Specter the gun not Phil Specter the explosive,

28:38

perfectionist. Phil Specter the womanis

28:40

or the boozer, the psycho loaner up in the castle

28:43

on the Hill who wore Batman costumes

28:45

and air conditioned darkness. Was

28:48

back to being the loner he was as a child,

28:50

the one who was different ostra size,

28:52

misunderstood. He was no longer

28:55

the bully. He'd be bullied from now

28:57

on, just like he'd been bullied in

28:59

school. Now

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eleven years later, Phil Specter

29:03

is eighty years old and spends his days

29:06

at a prison health care facility in Stockton,

29:08

California, where he is ben since

29:10

October two thousand and thirteen. Is

29:13

eligible for early parole. In two thousand,

29:17

Specter's musical productions remained some

29:19

of the greatest of the twentieth century. River

29:21

Deep, Mountain High, You've Lost that love

29:23

and feeling in My Sweet Lord are

29:26

the songs of an autour, works of art

29:28

made possible by a process and a style

29:30

that was as myopic as it was universal.

29:33

In later years, as musical and

29:35

social trends continued to evolve, Specter

29:38

became increasingly stubborn and refused

29:40

to evolve with everyone else. But even

29:43

some of his later productions albums by

29:45

Leonard Cohen and Dion, though initially

29:47

panned upon their release, have risen

29:49

in critical acclaim. Phil Specters

29:52

identifiable stamp, whether delivered as

29:54

a wall of sound or stripped down and raw,

29:57

remains a stunning time capsule

29:59

in moments frozen in amber or

30:01

at least pressed into wax. For

30:04

many, it's rapturous pop music that will

30:06

never be taught. For many others,

30:09

it's hard to separate the art from the artist,

30:12

and the music filled with so much

30:14

love was in fact the brainchild

30:16

of a petty, vindictive and abusive

30:18

man. Because no

30:20

matter how much love is on the tracks,

30:23

no matter how much honesty is on the tracks,

30:25

no matter how much pure fucking

30:27

talent is on the tracks. It's

30:30

all tainted. All the

30:32

love, honesty, and talent

30:34

are tainted by blood. It's

30:37

all there, the blood

30:40

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