
After the Phil Spector murder retrial ended with a guilty verdict, the “Wall of Sound” producer looking at the prospect of life in prison and the culmination of a three-year-long chapter in Rock Daily’s life, our readers both celebrated and bemoaned the trial’s outcome. Still, reader Anonymous feels like Spector committed one crime back in 1970 that has still gone unpunished:
“Phil Spector should have been given the death penalty…. not for the murder of Lana Clarkson…
…but for what he did to the Beatles’ Let It Be album.
The record was good enough, as is. But then he went ahead, and took a great big shit all over the original sessions, by adding the most god awful syrupy strings and choirs, making the music practically unlistenable.”
Thankfully for Spector, the 2003 release of the stripped-down Let It Be… Naked ensured that he’d never be brought up on those charges. As for those still-angry Beatles fans that want justice, well, that’s what civil cases are for.

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