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I’m dreaming of a bestseller: what makes Christmas songs stick?

We analyse the most popular festive songs to find that all we want for Christmas is mid-century nostalgia

The Guardian - UK

The 20 greatest Christmas albums – ranked!

Whether you fancy a heartwarming carol with Elvis or the story of a yuletide drug dealer from OutKast, there’s a festive album for you in our rundown of the best ever

The Guardian - UK

‘I wrote it about an ex who borrowed my car to take out another girl’: Voice of the Beehive on Don’t Call Me Baby

‘We wanted a Phil Spector kind of feeling. The studio we recorded it in was so hi-tech we couldn’t even work the salt shakers.’

The Guardian - UK

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All hail Christmas Queen Darlene Love

In this "Everything Fab Four" interview, the legendary vocalist talks Christmas, the Beatles and Phil Spector

Salon

‘He was celebrated and protected’: revisiting the dark story of Phil Spector

In a new docuseries, the life of the abusive music mogul is contrasted with that of Lana Clarkson, the woman he was convicted of murdering

The Guardian - US

4-part doc ‘Spector’ deepens our understanding of the killer — and his victim

While detailing the music producer’s history of studio success and bizarre behavior, the Showtime true-crime series also makes time to remember the slain Lana Clarkson as more than just a ‘B-movie actress.’

Chicago Sun-Times

Phil Spector killed her. The press tarred her. Her mother wants to 'set the story straight'

LOS ANGELES — It's been nearly two decades since Lana Clarkson, the statuesque sword-wielding star of "Barbarian Queen" and other action films by Roger Corman, was murdered by songwriter and music producer Phil Spector at his sprawling faux French chateau in Alhambra known as the Pyrenees Castle.

Los Angeles Times

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10 Weirdest Talk Show Moments: Phil Spector's Intrusion, Tom Cruise's Bouncing And Frank Sinatra As The Host!

For most of television history, talk shows have been benign yet entertaining distractions, with pleasant guests offering amusing if not entirely memorable chatter. But on several occasions, talk shows departed from their safe realm into explosions of bizarre and remarkable happenings.

Benzinga

Paul McCartney 'hated' Beatles final number one

Cracks within the band were beginning to show by the late 1960s

Liverpool Echo

Ronnie Spector: Lead singer of The Ronettes who took charts by storm

Ronnie Spector was the lead singer on ‘Be My Baby’, a 1963 track which sold more than a million copies

The Independent UK

The 20 worst music biopics ever made

Forget The Dirt, Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman: music biopics used to be badly researched, badly scripted, badly acted and badly received

Louder

What have The Ramones ever done for us?

They weren’t just a band. The Ramones were a goddamn revolution

Louder

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