The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (06/05)

WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Medical examiner Dr. David Pena took the stand for a fourth and final day. Last week, he appeared to have the defense rattled with his convincing case that Lana Clarkson's death was a homicide rather than an intentional suicide; now the defense is arguing that it could have been an accidental suicide. We also learned that Clarkson was a Grateful Dead fan who liked to quote Jerry Garcia in e-mails.

IS THIS GOOD OR BAD FOR SPECTOR? Pena's entire testimony has been bad for Spector.

HAIR AND WARDROBE WATCH: Spector sported a large-collared orange red shirt under a pinstriped suit jacket.

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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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