The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (05/30)

What Happened Yesterday: Dr. Louis Pena, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Lana Clarkson, testified, making jurors gag (really) with step-by-step desciption of how he extracted Clarkson's bullet-grazed tongue from her mouth. He then explained why, in his opinion, the gun was shoved into Clarkson's mouth in a violent way; described resistance bruises on Clarkson's forearms and wrists; and testified that the gun in question had been wiped clean.

Is This Good or Bad for Phil? Bad. Dr. Pen's testimony makes it hard for the jury to buy Clarkson's death as a suicide

Hair and Wardrobe Update: Phil was dressed in a funereal black ensemble, which brought out the fluorescent glow in his blonde pageboy.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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