The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (06/07)

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WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Detective Mark Lillienfeld appeared on the stand again, this time under defense cross-examination. The defense attempted an O.J. strategy, trying to show errors in the way evidence was collected, but little damage was done. In Lillienfeld's opinion, the murder of Lana Clarkson seemed like a sex crime, given the way Clarkson was dressed at the time and that Spector most likely was high on Viagra.

IS THIS GOOD OR BAD FOR SPECTOR? Bad. There was no evidence of evidence tampering, which is the joker in every defense lawyer's deck.

HAIR & WARDROBE UPDATE: New stylist? Phil Spector wore a tie.

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Song Stories

“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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