Speaker 1: Phil Specter was a musical genius, one of the most
Speaker 1: successful record producers of all time. He's now sitting behind
Speaker 1: bars serving a nineteen years to life sentence for murder.
Speaker 1: There is a special agent, Paul Ramone with the Federal
Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation work in case number double O four
Speaker 1: dashed PAN DASH seven four one nine case subject of
Speaker 1: Specter Philip Harvey. This information pertains to the period and
Speaker 1: in August third, nineteen sixty six interview subject as Bruce
Speaker 1: Lenny Interview number one Dash thirty four DASH six five
Speaker 1: six STASH six six seven Spirit Confessional Recall number two day,
Speaker 1: January two thousand three. There was a time not too
Speaker 1: long ago when Phil Specter was the most successful creative
Speaker 1: name in the music business. He produced massive hits that
Speaker 1: influenced everyone from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, to Blondie,
Speaker 1: the Ramans, and everyone in between. Phil Specter and the
Speaker 1: music he created shifted in shaped American culture. But behind
Speaker 1: his famous wall of sound there was a darkness, violence,
Speaker 1: and an intense inferiority complex that those who knew him
Speaker 1: and worked with him were all too familiar with, and
Speaker 1: that led to the senseless murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
Speaker 1: This is his story told by his so called friends.
Speaker 1: Attribute This looks like the body of a forty year
Speaker 1: old woman was discovered in the home of famed record
Speaker 1: producer Phil Specter late last night and what authorities are
Speaker 1: calling an apparent homicide. He told me that I just
Speaker 1: married him for his money, for his fame, and you
Speaker 1: know what, baby moments like those when he piled on
Speaker 1: the anger and the insults, Moments like those. Sure, maybe
Speaker 1: I did it for the money and the fame and
Speaker 1: the attention. I'd say I didn't like what he had become,
Speaker 1: but it's fairly obvious that he had always been that way.
Speaker 1: The woman acted us. The Clarkson was found in a
Speaker 1: pool of her own blood in the entryway to the home,
Speaker 1: dead of a gunshot tom to the head. We're joining us.
Speaker 1: He got Bill wanted Tina to be what Bill wanted
Speaker 1: Tina to be, and he'd get it too. I knew
Speaker 1: what he was doing, I knew how he did it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, man Gay recognized his game. In Specter
Speaker 1: is calling the incident and the accidental suicide, and his
Speaker 1: name's lark Center kissed the guns. It was a long
Speaker 1: walk to make to go from such a genius and
Speaker 1: such a front runner, and such an inventive producer to
Speaker 1: a man stuck in the accomplishments of his past, a
Speaker 1: man who wanted to be admired so bad he would
Speaker 1: literally hold admiration hostage in his own house. Blood on
Speaker 1: the Tracks is part true crime, part historical fiction, part
Speaker 1: spoken word, low fi beat noir, brought to you by
Speaker 1: me Jake Brennan, the host of the award winning music
Speaker 1: in True Crime podcast disgrace Land, featuring the fictionalized voices
Speaker 1: of Lenny Bruce, Ronnie Specter, Ike Turner, Debbie Harriet, and Moore.
Speaker 1: Blood on the Tracks comes at you every Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: it's a scripted, serialized podcast with violent adult themes. It's
Speaker 1: not for children. Just like Phil Specter, this podcast sounds
Speaker 1: like nothing you've heard before, because you can't push the
Speaker 1: needle into the red without leaving a little blood on
Speaker 1: the tracks. Blood on the Tracks is produced in partnership
Speaker 1: with iHeart Media by Double Elvis and launches Wednesday, August
Speaker 1: twelve and is available on the iHeart Podcast app, Apple podcast,
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.