Phil Spector plans to build his Wall of Sound

July 1958: Number 5 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicThe secret history of pop? That of its producers, of whom arguably the greatest was Phil Spector, the originator of the layered Wall of Sound production style and the man dubbed the "first tycoon of teen" by Tom Wolfe.Fresh out of Fairfax high school, the nerdy 18-year-old scraped together $40 to record a one-song demo with three friends at Gold Star studios in Los Angeles. The result (Don't You Worry My Little P...

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