LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81.

Phil Spector, who died on Saturday at the age of 81, has long been hailed as one of pop music's most influential producers, the man who created the wall of sound and gave us songs like "He's a Rebel," ...

Music producer Phil Spector’s story is already very familiar and was covered so thoroughly in Mick Brown’s 2007 Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector that MacLeod’s adoring ...

This eminently readable and thoroughly researched biography from U.K. journalist and author Brown (The Dance of 17 Lives) chronicles the roller coaster life of legendary (and legendarily bizarre) ...

The rise and fall of legendary music producer Phil Spector is epic, even by music business standards. Creator of the remarkable arrangement tapestry known as "the Wall of Sound," Spector was behind ...

Songwriter and producer Phil Spector was convicted of killing actress Lana Clarkson in his California home in 2003 Jae C. Hong-Pool/Getty ; Albert L. Ortega/WireImage Phil Spector was both a prolific ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Moments after he was indicted on murder charges in the 2003 death of a B-movie actress at his Alhambra mansion, music producer Phil Spector called prosecutors "reprehensible, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock producer Phil Spector, who changed the sound of pop music in the 1960s with his "Wall of Sound" recordings and was convicted of murder for the 2003 murder of a Hollywood ...

"Mr. Spector likes people to walk up" -- "It was Philip who was moving fastest" -- "To know him is to love him" -- On Broadway -- "A big hoot and howl" -- "They all thought he was a genius" -- ...