Phil Spector

It being the start of my Christmas Holiday I have begun my traditional approach to getting into the spirit of things, listening to the Phil Spector Christmas Album (at least that's how I always refer to it). It just doesn't feel like Christmas until I've listened to that album a couple of times.

My wife, Linda, asked me if Phil was still alive and I checked out his Wikipedia entry, where a couple of things stood out:

(1) Spector had admitted in an interview with the British Daily Telegraph that he suffers from bipolar disorder and that he considered himself "relatively insane".

(2) On February 3, 2003, Spector was arrested for murder after the body of 40-year-old actress Lana Clarkson of Los Angeles was found at his mansion in Alhambra, California. Police responded to a 911 phone call from one of Spector's neighbors and discovered Clarkson, who had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. On November 20, 2003, Spector was indicted for Clarkson's murder.

Sad.