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...Ramones join with Phil Spector to top off the new wave...
...Feeling have been endlessly imitated. They have never been equaled, except by Spector himself. Outside attempts to duplicate "the Spector wall of sound" only ring hollow, like a Salvation Army rock band playing in a subway tunnel. What is clear, past all the self-perpetuating mythology, is that Phil Spector has been responsible for some of rock's greatest records. End of the Century proves that greatness is not necessarily past history...
...hasn't always seemed so. Joey Ramone's avowed ambition-"We're after the real fanatics. We want the loyal, dedicated kids, the real nuts"-pointed him in Specter's direction. Phil, presumably, would know plenty about reaching the real nuts. All those vintage Spector-produced hits by the Ronettes, Crystals, Darlene Love and the Righteous Brothers were just the sort of sound the Ramones were shooting for. "Little symphonies for the kids," Spector once called these songs...
...Over a period of years," says a songwriter who has worked closely with him, "Phil developed certain characteristics -reclusiveness, craziness in the studio -and after a while he let them take over." Adds a young record producer who spent a long and disenchanting night watching Spector thrash around with the Dion album: "His records were great, but he's a mean mother." Spector himself admits to a certain amount of struggling during this time. "Working with Leonard Cohen was more of a writing experience," he told TIME'S Robert Goldstein. "He's not a Lennon or McCartney...
...most of Manchester, a north-south collection of aging offices and new bank towers. Three days before the New Hampshire primary, politics permeates the strip--Phil Crane's headquarters features a one-story full-color poster of the Illinois congressman's face. Jerry Brown wafts in a cloud of reporters, up and down the sidewalk, greeting Bush supporters gathered in the doorway of the Republican's office. A diversionary force of 3000 college students marches down one lane, leaving enough room for cars to pass, stopping to heckle the headquarters staff of candidates who favor draft registration. John Anderson workers...