Although this documentary is titled "Spector" and great emphasis is placed on his music genius for writing hit songs, orchestrating a new hip style combo of soul and rock 'n roll music, and discovering many new talent(s), and the wall of sound, Phil Spector's life as a short bald man is placed under a microscope and his many demons are also exposed.
Actress Lana Clarkson was a tall beautiful woman with a series of film and TV stints to her credit, none of which would make her a star, or a household name. It was Miss Clarkson's unfortunate circumstance which found her working a shift as the doorman at the House of Blues club when a drunk Phil Spector first laid eyes on her and invited her up to his mansion when the night was over.
This documentary series lays out both the music genius of Phil Spector through his early troubled childhood, his uncanny ability to write and choreograph numerous hit songs, managing stars, and the many women he first wooed, then married some, then tried to ruin with his recklessness and gun crazy paranoia.
What is missing from this documentary series was any semblance of order in Phil Spector's life one in which this documentary series shows him as a complete control freak and a man who lived in isolation and yet longed for visitors to his mansion and refused to let them go until he was finished with them visiting on his terms, and his terms alone.
The crux of this series focuses on Phil Spector's night out drinking where his last stop is at the House of Blues when he insists Miss Clarkson come see his mansion and stay for one drink. Miss Clarkson was unaware of whom Phil Spector was as a music genius, but more importantly she was also unaware of how many other women Phil Spector had previously threatened, or how many guns he owned. This was a mistake which would forever change both of their lives.
Was it a suicide, or was it just a deranged short and bald man who saw this tall blonde beautiful women as just another possession that he would not let leave? The judge and jury put Phil Spector behind bars for life as the history books reflect, and such is the highs and lows of a music genius. As for Miss Lana Clarkson we are provided insight in to a beautiful woman whose life was cut prematurely by a chance encounter at her place of work, The House of Blues, with a man with too much power named Phil Spector.
I give this documentary series a respectable 8 out of 10 IMDb rating based on a balanced story line of both the good and the bad of Spector.
Actress Lana Clarkson was a tall beautiful woman with a series of film and TV stints to her credit, none of which would make her a star, or a household name. It was Miss Clarkson's unfortunate circumstance which found her working a shift as the doorman at the House of Blues club when a drunk Phil Spector first laid eyes on her and invited her up to his mansion when the night was over.
This documentary series lays out both the music genius of Phil Spector through his early troubled childhood, his uncanny ability to write and choreograph numerous hit songs, managing stars, and the many women he first wooed, then married some, then tried to ruin with his recklessness and gun crazy paranoia.
What is missing from this documentary series was any semblance of order in Phil Spector's life one in which this documentary series shows him as a complete control freak and a man who lived in isolation and yet longed for visitors to his mansion and refused to let them go until he was finished with them visiting on his terms, and his terms alone.
The crux of this series focuses on Phil Spector's night out drinking where his last stop is at the House of Blues when he insists Miss Clarkson come see his mansion and stay for one drink. Miss Clarkson was unaware of whom Phil Spector was as a music genius, but more importantly she was also unaware of how many other women Phil Spector had previously threatened, or how many guns he owned. This was a mistake which would forever change both of their lives.
Was it a suicide, or was it just a deranged short and bald man who saw this tall blonde beautiful women as just another possession that he would not let leave? The judge and jury put Phil Spector behind bars for life as the history books reflect, and such is the highs and lows of a music genius. As for Miss Lana Clarkson we are provided insight in to a beautiful woman whose life was cut prematurely by a chance encounter at her place of work, The House of Blues, with a man with too much power named Phil Spector.
I give this documentary series a respectable 8 out of 10 IMDb rating based on a balanced story line of both the good and the bad of Spector.