At the forefront of the sixties pop explosion, Phil Spector was the first record producer to be universally hailed as a genius. Using a combination of imagination, musicality and sheer chutzpah, his records became as important and influential as any from that exciting decade. His `Wall of Sound' was widely imitated, but never bettered, and the records he made with the Righteous Brothers (`You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin''), the Ronettes (`Be My Baby', `Walking In The Rain'), the Crystals (`Da Doo Ron Ron', `Then He Kissed Me') and Ike & Tina Turner (`River Deep Mountain High') as well as John Lennon's `Imagine' are among the most played to this day.
Little Symphonies is about Spector's music: examining how his distinctive records were created. The book compiles the very best writing about Phil Spector -- including pieces by Nik Cohn, Greg Shaw, Dave Marsh, Dee Dee Ramone, Mick Patrick and Richard Williams -- as well as specially commissioned interviews, previously unpublished writing and a selection of fascinating and varied appendices.