The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector

Phil Spector is a pioneer of American music a legendary producer to John Lennon and Tina Turner and as of April 13th 2009 a convicted murderer. Yet the Spector who appears in Vikram Jayanti's documentary is not the severe outlandishly coiffed defendant seen in sensationalistic accounts of his trial but a charming savvy music executive with a generous but arguably accurate estimation of his place in the history of popular music.