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Dolores Brooks on the 60s, girl groups and Phil Spector

The Crystals changed the sound of pop in the 1960s, but they say their mercurial genius producer took the money as well as the creditSinging with her friends on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment block in the 1950s, seven-year-old Dolores "LaLa" Brooks couldn't have imagined how her teenage years would unfold. By 13 she was singing in an after-school programme, where she was discovered and asked to be part of a new girl group, the Crystals.When LaLa joined the band, producer Phil Spector – curr...

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23:06 on October 28 2011

Dolores Brooks on the 60s, girl groups and Phil Spector

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