![]() ![]() I’d watch him and was amazed at how he did it and how everyone fell into it. He heard the music in his head and then got it one tape and one piece at a time. ![]() He just did it with two tracks, which is unheard of. When we saw what he came up with in the final product, we thought, “Wow! This is different!” It felt like a new thing that was going to be happening with music. He put the music on first, then he put the background and then put my lead on. But Phil split it all up long before anyone was doing that. Most people did everything at one time: The singers, the background, everything. We worked at Gold Star Studios and he took command of those sessions. After knowing Lester for a year or so, he told us his partner was coming into Los Angeles and he wanted me to sing lead on a song. We sang background for some of his groups, but none of them were successful. At the time, we didn’t know that was Phil Spector’s partner. We did a lot of recordings for Lester Sill. I was already a backup singer with a group, the Blossoms. Then I thought about who he was and what he did because if there was no Phil Spector, there would be no Darlene Love.”Ī few hours after the news broke, Love phoned Rolling Stone to talk about her long musical history with Spector, their split in the Seventies, a nasty legal battle in the Nineties and the murder that sent the producer to prison for the final two decades of his life. “My son called to tell me the news,” says the singer, who recorded classics like “He’s a Rebel,” “(Today I Met) the Boy I’m Gonna Marry” and “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” with Spector in the early Sixties. Darlene Love never knew how she’d feel when Phil Spector died, but when the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed the producer’s death on Sunday, she mainly felt sorrow despite all the ways he mistreated her over the years.
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