Phil Specter was a musical genius, one of the most successful record producers of all time. He's now sitting behind bars serving a nineteen years to life sentence for murder. There is a special agent, Paul Ramone with the Federal Bureau of Investigation work in case number double O four dashed PAN DASH seven four one nine case subject of
Specter Philip Harvey. This information pertains to the period and in August third, nineteen sixty six interview subject as Bruce Lenny Interview number one Dash thirty four DASH six five six STASH six six seven Spirit Confessional Recall number two day, January two thousand three. There was a time not too long ago when Phil Specter was the most successful creative name in the music business. He produced massive hits that influenced everyone from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, to Blondie,
the Ramans, and everyone in between. Phil Specter and the music he created shifted in shaped American culture. But behind his famous wall of sound there was a darkness, violence, and an intense inferiority complex that those who knew him and worked with him were all too familiar with, and that led to the senseless murder of actress Lana Clarkson. This is his story told by his so called friends.
Attribute This looks like the body of a forty year old woman was discovered in the home of famed record producer Phil Specter late last night and what authorities are calling an apparent homicide. He told me that I just married him for his money, for his fame, and you know what, baby moments like those when he piled on the anger and the insults, Moments like those. Sure, maybe I did it for the money and the fame and
the attention. I'd say I didn't like what he had become, but it's fairly obvious that he had always been that way. The woman acted us. The Clarkson was found in a pool of her own blood in the entryway to the home, dead of a gunshot tom to the head. We're joining us. He got Bill wanted Tina to be what Bill wanted Tina to be, and he'd get it too. I knew what he was doing, I knew how he did it.
Like I said, man Gay recognized his game. In Specter is calling the incident and the accidental suicide, and his name's lark Center kissed the guns. It was a long walk to make to go from such a genius and such a front runner, and such an inventive producer to a man stuck in the accomplishments of his past, a man who wanted to be admired so bad he would
literally hold admiration hostage in his own house. Blood on the Tracks is part true crime, part historical fiction, part spoken word, low fi beat noir, brought to you by me Jake Brennan, the host of the award winning music in True Crime podcast disgrace Land, featuring the fictionalized voices of Lenny Bruce, Ronnie Specter, Ike Turner, Debbie Harriet, and Moore. Blood on the Tracks comes at you every Wednesday, and it's a scripted, serialized podcast with violent adult themes. It's
not for children. Just like Phil Specter, this podcast sounds like nothing you've heard before, because you can't push the needle into the red without leaving a little blood on the tracks. Blood on the Tracks is produced in partnership with iHeart Media by Double Elvis and launches Wednesday, August twelve and is available on the iHeart Podcast app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.