1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Phil Specter was a musical genius, one of the most 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: successful record producers of all time. He's now sitting behind 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: bars serving a nineteen years to life sentence for murder. 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: There is a special agent, Paul Ramone with the Federal 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation work in case number double O four 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: dashed PAN DASH seven four one nine case subject of 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: Specter Philip Harvey. This information pertains to the period and 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: in August third, nineteen sixty six interview subject as Bruce 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: Lenny Interview number one Dash thirty four DASH six five 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: six STASH six six seven Spirit Confessional Recall number two day, 11 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: January two thousand three. There was a time not too 12 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: long ago when Phil Specter was the most successful creative 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: name in the music business. He produced massive hits that 14 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: influenced everyone from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, to Blondie, 15 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: the Ramans, and everyone in between. Phil Specter and the 16 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: music he created shifted in shaped American culture. But behind 17 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: his famous wall of sound there was a darkness, violence, 18 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: and an intense inferiority complex that those who knew him 19 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: and worked with him were all too familiar with, and 20 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: that led to the senseless murder of actress Lana Clarkson. 21 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: This is his story told by his so called friends. 22 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: Attribute This looks like the body of a forty year 23 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: old woman was discovered in the home of famed record 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: producer Phil Specter late last night and what authorities are 25 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: calling an apparent homicide. He told me that I just 26 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: married him for his money, for his fame, and you 27 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: know what, baby moments like those when he piled on 28 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: the anger and the insults, Moments like those. Sure, maybe 29 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: I did it for the money and the fame and 30 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: the attention. I'd say I didn't like what he had become, 31 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: but it's fairly obvious that he had always been that way. 32 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: The woman acted us. The Clarkson was found in a 33 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: pool of her own blood in the entryway to the home, 34 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: dead of a gunshot tom to the head. We're joining us. 35 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: He got Bill wanted Tina to be what Bill wanted 36 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: Tina to be, and he'd get it too. I knew 37 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: what he was doing, I knew how he did it. 38 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: Like I said, man Gay recognized his game. In Specter 39 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: is calling the incident and the accidental suicide, and his 40 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: name's lark Center kissed the guns. It was a long 41 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: walk to make to go from such a genius and 42 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: such a front runner, and such an inventive producer to 43 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: a man stuck in the accomplishments of his past, a 44 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,119 Speaker 1: man who wanted to be admired so bad he would 45 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 1: literally hold admiration hostage in his own house. Blood on 46 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: the Tracks is part true crime, part historical fiction, part 47 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: spoken word, low fi beat noir, brought to you by 48 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: me Jake Brennan, the host of the award winning music 49 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: in True Crime podcast disgrace Land, featuring the fictionalized voices 50 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: of Lenny Bruce, Ronnie Specter, Ike Turner, Debbie Harriet, and Moore. 51 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: Blood on the Tracks comes at you every Wednesday, and 52 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: it's a scripted, serialized podcast with violent adult themes. It's 53 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: not for children. Just like Phil Specter, this podcast sounds 54 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: like nothing you've heard before, because you can't push the 55 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: needle into the red without leaving a little blood on 56 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: the tracks. Blood on the Tracks is produced in partnership 57 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: with iHeart Media by Double Elvis and launches Wednesday, August 58 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: twelve and is available on the iHeart Podcast app, Apple podcast, 59 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.