Spector Free on $1M Bond

Police in Los Angeles say they are not pursuing any other suspects in the shooting death of a woman at rock producer Phil Spector's Los Angeles-area mansion yesterday. Officers arrested Spector early Monday after responding to a 5 a.m. emergency call and finding a woman shot to death in the foyer of the Alahambra, California, home, and a weapon they say was used in the killing.

Spector posted $1 million bond yesterday, and is free pending his arraignment this week. Robert Shapiro, the high-profile defense attorney best known for his work on behalf of O.J. Simpson, will represent the sixty-two-year-old producer in court.

The woman, police confirmed, was Lana Clarkson, a forty-year-old Los Angeles resident and actress. Her film and television credits include Scarface, Three's Company and Knightrider.

Officials could not elaborate on the details of Clarkson's relationship to Spector, but they did reveal that the two apparently arrived at the house together in Spector's black Mercedes sedan that was parked in the driveway, its passenger door ajar.

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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