Remembering songwriting legend Ellie Greenwich

She changed the shape of 60s pop by writing some extraordinary songs, including Be My Baby and Da Doo Ron RonAsk anybody to name a great songwriter from the 60s, and they will namecheck the lyrics of Lennon, the melodies of McCartney, or the studio mastery of Spector. Few will plump for Ellie Greenwich, the blonde-haired, bright-eyed New Yorker who co-wrote some of the decade's most extraordinary songs – Be My Baby and Da Doo Ron Ron for the Ronettes, Leader of the Pack for the Shangri-La...

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