Phil Spector: My Personal Hero

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From thriving music stage as New York, a young boy has moved to Los Angeles. Owning a perfect music training background that gave him an opportunity to become a member of the Teddy Bears band. And "To Know Him is To Love Him", a first song was written by that teenager, reached the No.1 hit song on the Billboard chart in 1958 (O'Hare 48). He is Phil Spector, a talent producer, songwriter, and a musician. In years later, Spector had a huge influence to the record producers, artists, and musician. According to Brian Wilson - Producer, Artist, The Beach Boys, he said, "My personal hero is Phil Spector…he had a huge influence on my own music - he taught me how to produce records. He taught me how to get the best sound you can get, and he taught

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