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...Invented the Wall of Sound, a early-'60s production technique exemplified by songs such as "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" by the Righteous Brothers, considered the most-played recording of the 20th century. The name said it all: a Spector "wall" featured large numbers of musicians and instruments, layered upon one another to produce a freight train of instrumentation, melody and noise. (Read about India's own Wall of Sound...
...early '60s, worked for Atlantic Records (and for himself) as a producer, songwriter and occasional session musician (he played guitar on the Drifters' "On Broadway"). In 1966, the Ike and Tina Turner song "River Deep-Mountain High" did not hit the Top 40 in the U.S., leading a wounded Spector to begin his on-again, off-again retreat from the world...
...Newman's cross-generational appeal in the '60s: "He was well liked, and by a variety of people and audiences. Like Brando and Dean and Steve McQueen, he was a rebel who dressed like a slob (but with taste), hung out in déclassé joints, got around on motor scooters or in sports cars, stayed out of L.A. as much as he could, played brassy scoundrels and real heels and the occasionally arty part, and seemed the whole while to be having a blast. Young audiences loved all that about him ... at the same time...
That's exactly what Louis Vuitton is doing. Take any of the latest Louis Vuitton ads they're running right now: they're actually promoting various actors who are not hot anymore. They're putting them in settings which are from the '60s, the '50s, and basically you feel you are buying the past...
...rambling network of rooms at The Railway House (23 Main Road, tel: (27-21) 788 4761) is a fitting showcase for the antique trove contained therein: in the pink room, you can find a fully operational '60s pinball machine, while the African room offers up a hand-beaten copper bath...