Phil Spector Interview In 1972 Talking About His Christmas Album
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2020
- This is a interview with Phil Spector from The Old Grey Whistle Test 21/11/72. He is talking about his Christmas Album and re releasing it. Hope you enjoy this interview. If you have any videos of Phil Spector please contact me. Thank you.
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It truly is one of the greatest albums of all time.
The ultimate Christmas album, hands down and always will be.
@@j.c7719 By far the greatest xmas album ever..truly magic
That was one of the totally best Christmas albums ever made.
Wow, this is profoundly rare. Thanks for sharing.
Great to see this for the first time!
Even when as calm and measured as he could be, the madness is still apparent. Scouse accent for example lol.
I thought it was just me being crazy as I felt so sure he was speaking in a Scouse accent!
I caught the affected accent, too. And the compulsive beard stroking.
I thought this was Jeff Lynne and I got so scared
That record is the best all time rock and roll album. We're kind of blessed to have had his genius because otherwise none of that level of musical bliss would be known to the world. I mean, it was Motown, pop, white, Christmas, world music and total old time Christmas bliss sounding warmer than ever, as if people had forgotten that the roots of Christmas are in Africa and the Asia Minor.
The very definition of a legendary genius. Beyond any casual definition Spector almost single handedly created an alternative New York.
A better New York.
Phil was my idol when I was 12 in 1963.
And when he killed a woman too?
@@aylinguluzade5962 that was like 50 years later & she was a nut too. YOU must be very naive.
Mid sentences he goes from Bronx to Liverpool
haha... I noticed that too... affecting an accent
He’s got nothing on Madonna
Jeremy G. Maybe just to hide behind something because he was nervous about being interviewed. He was super private.
Or Linda McCartney for that matter...
@@jeffkaufman8489 well with Linda it makes some sense at least, considering she was married to paul for 20 something years. This dude hung around them for a little while and was like "ok I am you now"
In a movie, Paul Giamatti would be perfect for this look of Phil’s 😄
RIP Phil Spector. Thx for your Wall of Sound productions.
Well, yes, other than being a stone cold murderer, yes RIP, Phil. Now he's no longer a cringey awkward little fuck. Good tunes, though, for sure.
@@MikeS-uy5yv He was mentslly ill: demon~possessed & I wonder how he got like that?¿ 🤔
@@MikeS-uy5yv Agreed. F him, he was a murderer who tried to drag his victim through the mud after he took her life.
Celebrity worshippers are insane. Mental illness doesn't always lead to murderers.
Why should he RIP. He murdered a woman.
He sounds very much like George at times.
He keeps coming in and out of an English accent lol
Hey DB, very observant you are!! That is quite funny!
@@damon6852 noticed that immediately. Hilarious!
DaBratt Liverpool accent. Working with Lennon at the time. Strange, though.
I noticed also. I reckon its down to having recently worked with John Lennon and George Harrison.
Bipolar.
Fascinating! R.I.P troubled genius.
Love Phil and I don't think anyone can beat his style , productions and songwriting .
Not just beat his style, but beat his wife and beat and murdered a woman. Otherwise, great dude!
Anyone who "loves" this maniac is a scarey person.
@@forreal245 Rubbish!
@@nonsensetalk8953 hes mentally ill
@@nonsensetalk8953 he is abusive
DANA CARVEY PLEASE PLAY SPECTOR
I see it now
'A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector' was released on the very day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This had a lot to do with why it initially failed as a record. I think it just got lost and wasn't the event that it would've otherwise been. And in a few months the Beatles came along via Ed Sullivan and everything changed.
Interestingly, Phil Spector (who was Jewish) was especially fond of Christmas. He was born on December 26th -- probably believed he was the second coming of some sort. I wouldn't be surprised. But it is a fabulous album. I mean, Darlene Love -- what a vocalist!
Same day Gilligan's Island finished shooting the pilot episode
I know it’s not from that album but what can beat ‘He’s a Rebel’ timeless brilliance.
Darlene Love should of been much bigger than she was. Unbelievable talent
my grandfather was born the day the album was released
With The Beatles was also released on 22nd November, funny how Phil Spector has picked up a Liverpool accent......
A Christmas gift to you & phil Spectors Christmas in mono & stereo are on UA-cam!
I will miss you my dear crazy friend. RIP
Yes. Oh. Rest In Peace. Mr.Spector. @Sandblasting Incorporated; May I ask; Have You ever met Mr.Spector before?
Phil Spector always fascinating. Thanks for sharing this interview. Notice that they were going to do reaction shots after the interview. That always seems contrived, but suppose it's necessary.
If they were filming with more than one camera then they wouldn't have to do reaction shots ... But with only one camera by doing reaction shots they can 'Cut To' the interviewer while Phil is talking (when they are editing the piece) and show the interviewer now and then to break things up a bit visually.
It makes it look like a bigger 2-camera production this way.
@@jcjohnsong8570 Oh, yes. Absolutely. Understood. It's something I try to determine when watching interviews.
Always thought Phil Spector had a little man complex (5'5) which would explain his fascination with guns. For years he pointed guns at musicians, some famous, in a sometimes playful, sometimes threatening manner. When you do that it's bound to catch up to you and with Phil it did! Solid proof that there's a fine line between insanity and genius.
It was an accident. That thing just slipped off. Sad really 😢
The words on his Dad's gravestone tells us a lot about how damaged this man was.
His Father committed suicide when Phil was a child.
It reads "To Know Him Was To Love Him."
I make no excuses for Spector, the murderer but Phil, he real Phil, underneath all the madness, was a genius.
He looks like Jeff Lynn of ELO fame.
Jeff Lynn probably saw that interview before he became 'of ELO fame'
Yes..except Jeff''s hair is real!😂
@@moontheloon5 A serious cuestion I always had is when did Phil Spector started wearing wigs?
@@TheStarclipse According to his ex wife, Ronnie Spector, Phil always wore wigs/toupees...even back in the early 60's!
Sounds like he'd been spending too much time with Lennon and Harrison
Just finished listening to Be My Baby, the memoir from Ronnie Spector. This guy was an absolute nightmare of a human being. He put that woman - his wife - through hell. Genius? Maybe. Pathetic? Absolutely!
A Twisted genious yes that's easy to to see,, but don't forget there would be no Ronettes or Crystals or a truly magical 1963 Christmas LP we all should love and know without this guy at the helm producing the girls his way.. and some...
I agree 👍💯 I'm such a fan of this guys work. I love watching interviews with him despite his insanity. I wish there were more.
I agree, there had been a interview with him for a production named "The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector" that was on UA-cam but I notice that ever since his passing, the video was removed. While I don't condone his actions that have cursed him, he certainly was a staple in history with the sound phenomenon he developed.
Regardless of its popularity today, it was a defining moment in music history!
He's drifting in an out of British accent. Lol. Kinda cute actually.
Brian Wilsons favorite record.
I got hooked on Phil's Christmas album on the Christmas episode of Moonlighting when David Addison was playing the album at his Christmas party. I found a bunch of CDs in a discount bin at a store once and bought up the whole lot of them and give them out at Christmas to anyone who doesn't have it. It just isn't Christmas until Darlene sings "Baby Please Come Home." Phil was a sad human being, yes, but his Christmas Gift to us keeps on giving.
They should do a dramatized movie about Phil Spector.
They did. Ever hear of Al Pacino? lol
Well at last I found out were Jeff Lynne got inspiration for his look
WOW !!!!!!
was he impersonating JEFF LYNNE?
OR is Jeff Lynn impersonating Phil Spector????
@@28mark Yep. Uncanny!
Other way around
I thought it was Lynne in the thumbnail.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Who is that gorgeous host? You still can't beat, Spector's Wall of Sound, regardless of how you regard his personal views etc. He "changed" music, how it's produced, I don't know about recording studio procedures- but I love those old tracks and always will. I wonder, when I watch Amy Winehouse with her mile high stacked hair, like a Ronette! what an encounter between Phil and her would have been like? Both very strong willed and very talented and with "issues"...I hope all 3, Lana, Amy and Phil are at peace. Namaste, Z
I think it's Richard Williams. He had a boring record review column in one of the music papers, I forget which.
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Phil from Liverpool Spector. Cheerio.
I have the 70s release of this, blue vinyl, perfect Christmas album.
The accents was his usual shtick, "it's part satire, part emulation, and then it gets ingrained".
Nice Bronxpudlian accent Phil
Excellent description! That should go in the Urban Dictionary.
The lead singer from ELO
I’ve had it for a long time
Phil's Q-Tip years.
The only 'crazy' thing about Phil is the amount of money that he's made. He was great with money, something that true lunatics are not good at all. As his lawyer put it, "I doubt there is one-tenth of one per-cent of people in this country who can afford what Mr.Spector has had to put together so far for his defence".
He was great at PLAYING CRAZY, adding some weirdness to his persona. The greatest record producer who ever lived. RIP
Exactly. Phil was a genius
He was certainly tight with money, he only gave Ronnie £25k in a divorce settlement haha
Jesus Christ. He wasn't playing. He shot a woman.
Many celebrities thought they could get away with murder and did. Drinking Phil didn't listen to common sense.
The same source of his musical brilliance was the same source of his insanity
MADNESS
When Phil looked in the mirror he saw Cary Grant...
Anybody else wondering why he pretends he’s John Lennon?
I never knew Phil Spector was British.
He’s NOT a Jewish guy from New York who at 8 moved to L.A.
No he was born in the Bronx. He may have ancestry though.
I dig his red shades. Cool!
Sounded totally new york on his last interview.
Really a great genius. Listen.
Listen to what? On his fake english New York accent or his music? I prefer the music
He’s not a genius
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 you try doing what he did. No one else has.
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369ignorance is bliss, if he isn’t a genius then you must have Down syndrome.
He most certainly was/is in fact a true genius. (Musically,creatively,and in some aspects on life and in standing up for the truth and for in regards to defending one self and believing in one self when nobody understands one. Among other things).
His "British" accent is hilarious. If only he had the common decency that comes with that accent.
Liverpool accent
@@kellyb0279 😆 xx
How did this person ever con the Beatles into letting him produce them??
Phil Spector and his wall of sound technique, I see where the Metallica producer got ideas from to make the black album, that Phill was crazy
I think he was just Super Funny! A Super Funny Man! R.i.p Phil Spector Legend!
Life isn‘t as Easy as People like To Act, the slightest Shortcomings even if your Parents got divorced, Society Shows No Sympathy or Empathy of any Kind.
Life is very Sad often. People Laugh about Phil....but He was an Outstanding Guy that had Mood Swings and Bad Luck with Woman.
Yes.....but he gave more than Came Back and that isn’t Fair.
And while others Say it is Andy Dick I think that Phil Spector is the real Life Inspiration to Roger Smith from American Dad!
I know I am Right.
Farcically faking a Liverpool accent but can't hold it. Just watched his last interview before incarcerated. Seems to be "spectrum"/personality of "play dough". Was already living on his past predations of Ronnie, even changing the name of the old album to his own for re-release... Sad to think of all the pain he caused for so many, and for so many lost years after such great early innovations.
A millionaire by the time he was twenty-one.
I always felt in my gut that Spector and Robert Blake would end up killing someone.
Perhaps it is the struugle that keeps us sane. Perhaps quelling our fears rather than healing makes neurosis unchecked and so it over grows.
Spector wore better wigs in the 1970s
He's so full of himself...my three year old can talk basic..I hope he's happy where he is
Anyone listen to the podcast blood on the tracks ?
Yes. Excellent
Lol hello how you can't even start the interview until he sure that the cameraman are happy with the shot edit: love how*
Phil had been hanging with John Lennon and George Harrison alot producing their albums.
Smart move....many others after did the same thing.
This is jeff Lynne isn't it?
His love affair with mono was stupid. His records are great despite their poor quality, not because of it.
I get the sense this guy was desperately trying to hold onto his job and felt threatened by stereo and additional tracks because he had already mastered mono and was able to get a great sound where few others could. Then a new technology comes out that makes it easier for everyone to get great sounds and he wanted to be the only one to do it.
This is like when Madonna started talking with an English accent for a few months. Lol he’s totally got Lennon and Harrison’s cadence there up top haha
He was crazy’ as a Lun…
Phil with the a slight British accent.
“IT’S CHRISTMAS AT GROUND ZERO…”
Is this a Wig?
I never got the wall of sound craze seems so muddy sounding.
Listen to it on a '50's-'60s car radio or portable record player. Wall of Sound makes up for the limitations of equipment of those days. What stereophonic does is bring certain elements to the forefront to enhance the listening. It requires different "stereophonic" players that what Phil's music was mostly being played on.
I totally understand this man was a pioneer in music production, etc., but...Just 5 minutes into this interview I'm thinking to myself: "Steer clear of this cat. Something ain't right. A fizzle leads to a crack and then a pop." Watching this makes me nervous. There are a few outtake tracks on the John Lennon Anthology that come across just as weird as this. Odd interview, to say the least. Still love Be My Baby and the Righteous Bros., but this is odd.
I mean he did abuse Ronnie and kill some girl soo
Why is Phil Spector dressed up like a tiny Jeff Lynne.
I wonder what else is in his pocket 🤔😂
I don’t get the affected British accent..
why is he imitating John Lennon accent?
Is there a time when he was not creepy?
I wonder what sort of childhood he had, he was definitely mad at the end of his life!!! 🤔
when he sang Spanish Harlem,which he wrote.genius!
Wow he did a spot on Scouser Beats lp...go figure...sounded like George
Phil was definitely going for the Jeff Lynne vibe here.
He wore wigs due to all the scars on his head from going thru a windshield that nearly killed him.
JEFF LYNNE GOING FOR SPECTOR VIBE YOU MEAN
Steven Seagal's Eddie Munster look with sprayed on hair makes me wonder to
I think Spector jammed at a club on gtr in 1972..Why all this reinterest on OS? Lol- I bought the Christmas LP on CD- I think on " Back to Mono" 4cd set cheap at Best Buy.
fascinating how people didn't realize this guy was a complete lunatic
Hes a introverted savant, a genius in the studio, an analog master technician and producer. The music business can crush you.
@@mbjasondify Yes, he was all that, but his downfall was his own psyche and penchant for violence. Imagine having a gun pulled on you in the studio. It's how he resolved conflict.
how many multi-millionaires-complete lunatics do you know? Do you understand that the joke was on you? The whole 'Phil playing Phil' bit? Can you see on that level?
He's doing a Beatle accent
No doubt he had a wig on, perhaps the first of dozens although his stated reason in his later years was to cover up head scars from a near-fatal car crash in 1974. He was probably bald as anything before then.
He was wearing rugs in his early 20s. If you look at pictures of him during the time of the Teddy Bears, when he was 18, his hair was already receding. Ronnie Spector, in her book 'Be My Baby' talks about making love in the dark with him with the intoxicating aroma of the stuff that he used to remove the glue from his wigs permeating the air. Yeuchkkk!
And apparently suffered traumatic brain injury, which contributed to the murder I believe.
Is he putting on? Phil spector was not british. He doesnt even sound it. Lol what a fake.
very smart and tasty guy and....weird obviously
Why he talking with a fake accent?
whats with the faux liverpudlian accent?
3:51 What would an egomaniac say?
His Scouse accent needed work.
Phil said he has the Coronavirus in this interview. I bet he was vaccinated.
Freak
Too bad. The guy was brilliant.
What a strange little man. Genius or not, he was strange and I can't get through an interview with him in it. Cringeworthy, always.
the interviewers voice was so soft it made me aggressive 😁😁
He didn't mind a cigarette either. Lit one just before the beginning of the interview and couldn't light another one quick enough once it was over.
Jeezis Chrismiss-just listen to this clown try to have a British accent, through a New Yawk accent! Hilarious! Phils me with unexpected mirth.
"Artificial, Phoney, doesn't really make any real Sense."🤷
darn, adam sandler should have played Spector, not Al Pacino.