Phil Spector 1970s interview Clip

This Phil Spector Interview is from a documentary called All You Need Is Love. Series tracing the development of 20th-century popular music in all its forms.
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music is the name of a 17-part television documentary series on the history of modern pop music directed by Tony Palmer, originally broadcast worldwide between 1976 and 1980. The series covers some of the many different genres that have fallen under the "pop" label between the mid-19th century and 1976, including folk, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville and music hall, musical theatre, country, swing, jazz, blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll and others.
All You Need Is Love was born out of the reaction to his 1968 Omnibus episode on popular music called All My Loving which presented the music of the 1960s with no reference to the musical forms that preceded it. Around 1973, Palmer conceived of a 16-part documentary about American popular music which, after considerable shopping around, he convinced Bernard Delfont of EMI to bankroll. He proceeded to film over 300 interviews in approximately one million feet of film and was given access to archival footage of the same length. Instead of writing a script, he enlisted the help of a dozen or so subject matter experts who wrote 2000-word essays that became the narration for each part.
John Lennon was a friend and mentor to Palmer during the production of the series, and its title is taken from the Lennon-penned 1967 Beatles song, "All You Need Is Love". Although punk rock had entered the pop music scene while the series was being constructed, Palmer was refused the funding and time to include the genre in All You Need Is Love.
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[@ericmalone3213]

Phil Spector doing a Bob Dylan parody! I cracked a rib laughing.

[@paulc1744]

I've been looking for this for about 7 years. Thank you!

[@jasonmardoniomeza1711]

Mad genius! Sad he ended up dying in a very small room all alone with just a tiny sink bed and toilet. There is a fine line. Isn't that what they say? Its ok now Phil. You're free. Thanks for the music and i hope your at rest in Paradise.

[@jasonmardoniomeza1711]

@Little Miss Perfect yes...very sad. I hope that poor woman is at rest in paradise as well. I'm more talking about the music Phil Spector produced and wrote. Very unstable guy and in the end a murderer. Not condoning what he did. But he never kills someone until he is 70 years old? Drugs and alcohol were involved. Throw in Phil's unstable side and a thing like that is bound to happen. Whole thing is very sad though. But you can't take away Spectors Genius in the 60's.

[@sarahellis268]

It’s truly awesome how fleeting fame is and how “the mighty” can fall. RIP both souls.

[@smkxodnwbwkdns8369]

There’s been artists just as good as Phil who weren’t egomaniacal self-proclaimed geniuses .

[@davidezra7632]

@hollie wilson The only two people in the whole wide world who have the right to say if he did or did not kill someone are both dead. The jury of 12 people from the community he lived in -- after a previous jury was unable to come to a conclusion either way regarding the State's theory justifying the government's pursuit of a 1st Degree Murder CONVICTION -- who, to be honest, were given the task of coming to a conclusion that either supported the State's theory of justifying the government's pursuit of then a 2nd Degree Murder CONVICTION or DIDN'T support the State's theory ultimately sided with the State and the government's goals in the case... HOWEVER, we must remember that the jury was granted the PRIVILEGE to either agree with the State's presentation of the case or disagree with it -- they still were NOT THERE and still really have no right to say with any absolute certainty WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED there because THEY WERE NOT THERE. WHERE THEY REALLY WERE was in a court room as the voters who vote on which side's theory -- the government or the defense for the accused citizen -- they agreed with, based on ONLY what they were presented with and how it was presented to them -- and WHAT exactly IS a trial in itself that that the jurors are experiencing when involved as citizens doing this civic duty they are called upon to do when two parties disagree about a matter in which the potential stakes for both -- especially the defendant's right of presumed innocence and continuing liberty -- no matter whatever conclusion is to be reached are the biggest they can be? Well, what the jurors experience during a trial IS NOT REALITY -- it's an artificial recreation of what both sides are saying happened at some other time in some other part of town... cases aren't so much SOLVED as they are merely possibly able to be CLOSED. 🧑🏻‍⚖️ So

[@whiskeycitydiggers]

@@davidezra7632 He did it

[@WEBALON12]

Thanks for the music Phil RIP

[@stacyc1478]

Phil spector creative genius

[@clarkewi]

Phil should have made solo record like Bob Dylan. Just Phil and his guitar and voice. Now that our brains have been imprinted by the Christals, Ronettes that would have been wonderful. I think it would have gone platinum.

[@KyOte13]

The Wrecking Crew guys said that Phil could have had a career as a jazz guitarist, he was so good. Wish we had that footage. RIP to the best music producer of our time

[@j.c7719]

He was a great pianist too

[@dap4699]

@@j.c7719 not really. Besides playing pop on piano doesn't put you up there with a Horowitz.

[@j.c7719]

@@dap4699 He didn’t just play pop on piano though, he could play blues and jazz very sufficiently and I never said he was up there with Horowitz

[@dap4699]

@@j.c7719 sufficiently doesn't make great, and by "great" I imagine someone with the likes of a Horowitz or a Rachmaninoff. In guitar he was miles better; after all we don't hear enough of Spector the pianist.

[@j.c7719]

@@dap4699 No but that’s largely because he was a producer who only occasionally played on records, I have however heard him play piano and he undoubtedly had a talent for writing great songs on it and playing it, not on the level of those classical composers of course but still great, he wasn’t writing classical pieces, he was writing pop and rock songs. Apples and oranges.

[@patsielee7760]

Such absolute fucking talent in this man. I could say so much but I'll be selfish and say that i am thankful for all the memories he allowed me to have. I have always been so sad his life ended up the way it did. It didn't have to.

[@TheVinylking]

Did you know him personally?

[@patsielee7760]

@@TheVinylking No, I wish I could say that I did. I was young when he was producing the music I loved and I read about him even back then. He was so talented and just ended up destroying his life. Sorry, I'd had a few drinks when I made that comment.

[@NoOne-kr4jc]

​​@@TheVinylkingi had a family friend who was around him. He was a "twit". Opportunistic, egotistical, shallow prick. I think it's safe to say that as much of a genius as he was, he was burning out from the time he became successful. I mean his deranged instability was setting fire to everything around him. It was only til a matter of time til his madness would be answered after the worst thing he could do. He should have been thrown in a long time ago. He got his at the end.

[@Quantum3691]

He may have been talented and a great innovator, but he was an unbalanced human being who treated others poorly and didn't care about their feelings. Life was just waiting to collect on his misdeeds.

[@sadakichihartmann1827]

Phil being drunk and acting 'crazy', getting all the normies fooled. The only thing crazy about him is the amount of money he's made over the years. An absolute genius totally fucked-up by fame and his 'iconic' status.

[@timcarr6401]

And his tendency to murder.

[@kelvinlewis4065]

Well said .... extremely flawed genius

[@dap4699]

@@kelvinlewis4065 enough with that bullshit. There's being flawed, and then there is being a degenerate and murderer. I also admire his talent, but stop romanticizing. We are adults, I hope.

[@annytrstrup4224]

Loved him 🌹

[@bahnasproductions6329]

My grandfather interviewed phil in the 80s, and he always said that phil was definitely the smartest and most interesting person he has ever interviewed. He gave interesting and thought provoking answers. Not once did my uncle see the "evil" side of phil that the media places so much emphasis on.

[@erepsekahs]

Just wonderful. The man was, without a doubt, without exaggeration, a genius of the first magnitude.

[@TANTRUMGASM]

lol, nah...not really ... tiny, insecure and inbred,, he could record music well, but that doesnt make him a Genius..he was a fool who died in a cage...lololol

[@brendongomez8267]

Haven’t seen this since 1999, Tks for posting, my music teacher showed us this in class and mentioned how messed Spector looked and his pool table

[@paulrevelli]

This is some sad shit. But yes, he was a genius. Rest in peace, Phil.

[@dap4699]

Kinda makes me wish you don't rest in piece for your own seemingly ignorance...

[@glasshalffull8471]

Reminded me of my guitar playing, I can play those 3 chords, F chord is a struggle though.

[@Temu69recordsdotcom]

BARRE IT BABY

[@micro77s]

Gotta love a drunk. I will always be grateful to Phil for his musical contributions, but I'm really glad I never had to deal with the man in these film clips.

[@groundhog713]

Phil was definitely fucked up in the head, but that doesn't take away the fact that he was a creative amazing musician and producer.

[@arthurwatt4144]

Talented but nuts.

[@MrPicofmylife]

A treasure!

[@marguskiis7711]

great drama

[@brbrtrff]

I love Phil Spector. No matter how crazy he was and what he did- his music is forever staying with me. I also think that I would have loved him as a person, if I knew him - not necessarily all the time. The genial music he made with the musical geniuses he worked with will never die or cease to inspire new generations.

[@j.c7719]

Nothing beats his music, I’ve heard it all and nothing is greater than his work.

[@victorblock3421]

@@j.c7719 beyond incredible. I cannot stop listening the last 10 years.

[@j.c7719]

@@victorblock3421 Me neither, when I heard his songs ‘Strange Love’ by Darlene Love and ‘When I Saw You’ by The Ronettes it was like finding the holy grail. True, unequivocal genius.

[@kevinsthair6947]

You are all just as sick

[@surfviewgardens2396]

His voice sounds like Sonny (of Sonny and Cher) channeling Bob Dylan.

[@cautionTosser]

he was obviously trying to sound like Dylan in that one part. He bounced around with styles - just having a laugh, I think.

[@mattmammone2338]

A lot of Phil rubbed off on Sonny who was schooled in guitar and production by Phil in the early sixties. You can definitely hear the wall of sound style in sonny and Cher as the used the same studio and musicians.

[@wxsawxsa2941]

ROCK IN PEACE ITS THE SONG MONO/STEREO BRILLANT GEIUS❤⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@daves7079]

I need a stable genius friend like Phil

[@28mark]

Try Trump....that bum

[@saxongreen78]

That was a man aged in his thirties...the toll of his many demons is writ large in every feature. What a beastly childhood it must have been.

[@mattmammone2338]

He was in a car crash about a year before. He was driving his classic Rolls Royce and got caught in a downpour, lost control and went through the windshield, the old fashioned kind without safety glass, so his face was sliced up. He was almost declared dead on the scene. He had about 400+ stitches in his face and head. He started wearing more outlandish wigs colored in silver and gold. But the stress of his bipolar illness really aged him too.

[@victorblock3421]

@@mattmammone2338 It was that and his wealth. When he struggled to rise in the business he was just fine, until he got comfortable. Also losing his son had a devastating effect that contributed to the mental illness.

[@sherreewilson925]

Brilliant. 🌹

[@gerry.shafer6101]

WHY DIDNT SOMEONE GET PHIL A DOCTORS HELP ?

[@j.c7719]

He was on medication for bipolar disorder but he drank alcohol which made them not work

[@mattmammone2338]

Yes he was on meds after his son died. People said in the 90s he was in a much better place mentally speaking. When he started drinking again those meds can make a person really really intoxicated. I've taken some of the meds he was on, like Prozac and klonopin. One drink feels like two. And even though he was a lot more stable after quitting drinking and seeing a doctor, if you react poorly to alcohol all the meds and therapy goes out the window of you drink again.

[@TheRealSickCentral]

Does anybody know what Gibson guitar he’s playing here?

[@cautionTosser]

funny Dylan. :D

[@pamrendon2421]

He singing good

[@Bevrinton]

He seemed to be a batshit crazy loony tune wired to the moon space cadet for NASA on a one way trip to Pluto , but there’s no denying the guy was a musical genius.

[@nicholaswatson8119]

How is it that a man who so clearly struggled with severe mental health issues had easy access to lethal firearms? Tragedy upon tragedy.

[@gerry.shafer6101]

HE SHOULD HAVE HAD A DOCTOR HELP HIM WITH MEDS !! SUCH A SAD ENDING AND ALL THOSE SONS NOT HELPING HIM 😭

[@nicholaswatson8119]

@@gerry.shafer6101 Or maybe some laws which prevent people with mental health problems from buying firearms. Just an idea 👍

[@Methilde]

@@gerry.shafer6101 Cause you believe he could be a good father.?

[@rhettsdad608jv]

@@nicholaswatson8119 or maybe some laws that don't allow liberals to write any sort of legislation whatsoever. Just an idea

[@energyasylum997]

@00:46 Bob Dylan’esk ! 🙏🏼Phil

[@giovanna722]

When he starts goofing around, he sounds like he's channeling Kim Carnes in "Betty Davis Eyes"!

[@michaeld.mcclish]

You know, as I was listening and watching him, Sunny Bono came to mind, but of course more acidic. Sunny was pop.

[@gordon7462]

I've you noticed short people have big attitudes and can become very aggressive.

[@dmimcg]

Back to MONO.

[@sandrakenney567]

That's some hairstyle 🤪🤣😜.

[@edgregory1]

Phil Zimmerman.

[@alexburton3073]

Love the way he slips into a full on Dylan imitation. Is he a fan? Was he trying to cover up his lack of singing skills? Or was he just bored of his own composition? Or drunk...

[@BlissSister]

@@alexburton3073 binge drinker by the sounds of him

[@mattmammone2338]

He used to drink entire bottles of Manishewitz wine. There is a photo of him in the back of a limo from these interviews, or about the same time, he had the same hair and clothing. He had a big straw right in a bottle of wine.

[@GPSpector]

Sad that after my father died, someone claiming to be his biological daughter managed to get everything, leaving all 3 sons with nothing and all she wanted to do was sell it all.

[@GPSpector]

@@lolicats please explain, with proof of this misinformation that you wish to spread. You sound like a supporter of Nicole. At least I never lied about my father on the stand.

[@lukespector5550]

I'm NO relation at all (I'm in Sydney Australia). However, it stuns me how people grin when asking my surname. It's the Baby-Boomer generation mainly.

[@victorblock3421]

Nicole got whatever Phil left her. Perhaps it would've been the right thing for him to divide things between all children but that's not her fault nor her responsibility. And if I bet money, she looks like Phil. I'm sorry you weren't raised by someone even half normal but if you've been away from Phil for decades, at least the opportunity was there to heal yourself.

[@stormbringercoming8105]

You know, except for the insanity, guns and killing, Phil wasn’t such a bad guy.

[@Methilde]

Except killing????

[@yannisgk]

@@Methilde yes.

[@cautionTosser]

You know, come to think of it, he was a real jerk!

[@StormyJP]

He was a master narcissist. They can be convincing but even without the drugs he had a dark soul.

[@Larry-go8bg]

For someone who had such a great ear for music l wonder if he noticed how out of tune the guitar was maybe it was part of the show.😢😮😂

[@andydixon2980]

I think i prefer Yoko's 'singing'......

[@Stephensorrentino]

Lol.. don’t copy… For both federal law… And I would post it on KZbin? LOL

[@benwright6330]

..aping Dylan there, ..the Beach Boys also ripped off this song, ..help me Ronda, help, help me Ronda, .. yea.

[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

His guitar is out of tune.

[@antoniosantorini9355]

Pompous nonsense

[@mattmammone2338]

While he was rather pompous, the contributions he made pushed rock and roll into the realm of art. Without Phil, there wouldn't be Pet Sounds, Born To Run, Meatloaf, Abba, Elo.

[@TheStarclipse]

@@mattmammone2338 very true

[@eemann007]

He needed serious psychiatric intervention to control his mania wothout dampening his artistic expression.