Photos: Music producer Phil Spector through the years
Record producer Phil Spector is shown in this Jan. 12, 1993 photo taken in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Music producer Phil Spector is shown in Superior Court Monday, May 23, 2005, in Los Angeles. A judge ruled Monday, he will allow four of 10 incidents of evidence in Spector's murder trial that prosecutors say illustrate the music producer's history of pulling guns on women. Spector is on trial for the Feb. 23, 2003, fatal shooting of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Music producer Phil Spector, left, leaves Los Angeles Superior Court with his fiancee, Rachelle Marie Short, Monday, May 23, 2005, in Los Angeles. A judge ruled Monday he would allow four of 10 incidents of evidence in Spector's murder trial that prosecutors say illustrate the music producer's history of pulling guns on women. Spector is on trial for the Feb. 23, 2003, fatal shooting of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Music producer Phil Spector, left, charged with fatally shooting actress Lana Clarkson, appears for a pretrial hearing Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005, with his attorneys, Bruce Cutler, center, and Roger Rosen, at the Los Angeles Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Music producer Phil Spector and his attorney, Roger Rosen, right, leave Los Angeles Superior Court, Monday, March 19, 2007, for a break during the start of jury selection in Spectors' murder trial. Spector is accused of the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in February 2003. Woman at left is Spector's wife, Rachelle Spector. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Music producer Phil Spector, middle, arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court surrounded by bodyguards, to face his murder trial in Los Angeles, Wednesday, April 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Music producer Phil Spector stands while the jury enters the courtroom during his murder trial Thursday, May 10, 2007, in Los Angeles. Spector is accused of murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson. (AP Photo/Jamie Rector, Pool)
Music producer Phil Spector stands during a break in his murder trial in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007. Spector, 67, is accused of fatally shooting 40-year-old Lana Clarkson in February 2003. (AP Photo/Robyn Beck, Pool)
Record producer Phil Spector is seen, 1989. (AP Photo)
Phil Spector, second from right, talks with supporters following a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007. Spector was granted a continuance by Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler in announcing the identity of his new legal team. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Music producer Phil Spector, center, is blessed by minister Edwin Perry, with rising hands, during a memorial service for music legend Ike Turner at the City of Refuge church in Gardena, Calif. Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. At right, is Spector's wife Rachelle. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Music producer Phil Spector addresses a memorial service for music legend Ike Turner at the City of Refuge church in Gardena, Calif. Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Phil Spector is shown at a hearing in Superior Court Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in Los Angeles. Phil Spector's new defense team lost a series of pretrial motions Tuesday July 29, 2008, but the judge promised to reconsider some of his rulings if it becomes necessary during the music producer's second murder trial. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
** FILE ** In this Jan. 26, 2009 file photo, music producer Phil Spector listens during a hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles. Jurors in the Phil Spector retrial can consider involuntary manslaughter instead of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson, a judge ruled Friday, March 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Phil Spector, accompanied by his wife Rachelle Spector, arrives at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Thursday, March 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Music producer Phil Spector sits in a courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles, Friday, May 29, 2009. Spector has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)
Music producer Phil Spector sits in a courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles, Friday, May 29, 2009. Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)
Music producer Phil Spector, bottom center, and his attorney Dennis Riordan appear in a courtroom for Spector's sentencing in Los Angeles, Friday, May 29, 2009. Spector has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)
Phil Spector and his wife Rachelle Spector arrive at the Los Angeles Superior courthouse Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007, as his murder trial continues. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Legendary record producer Phil Spector, left, laughs with Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun after his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, Jan. 18, 1989. Spector rose to fame when he created the "Wall of Sound" recording technique for the Ronettes and other "girl groups" of the early 1960s. He went on to produce albums for such varied artists as the Beatles, Billy Joel and the Ramones. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan)
Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81.