Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector

A stunning biography of "pure self-interest and cruelty, tempered only slightly by the great musical achievements of Mr.

Spector' s golden age in the early 1960s" (The New York Times).He had a number one hit at eighteen.

He was a millionaire with his own record label at twenty- two.

He was, according to Tom Wolfe, "the first tycoon of teen." Phil Spector owned pop music.