Phil Spector, music producer convicted of murder, dies at 81 after contracting COVID-19
Sun., Jan. 17, 2021
LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector, the visionary record producer who revolutionized pop music in the early 1960s with his majestic sound and fierce ambition but spent his final years behind bars after shooting and killing an aspiring actress in his Alhambra mansion, has died in a hospital after becoming infected with the coronavirus. He was 81.