The House

I was just about to post about the house. How creepy. Creepy and depressing as hell. And that fake door to the left? Weird. Plain weird. And he kept going into room after room after room, and each room was more weirder and depressing than the one before it.


I specifically reminded her - bedside table! On the Kangaroo!

I've seen photos of the interior of the real "castle". It was hideously outdated and tacky. Not at all like in the movie. At least in the movie he had cool music memorabilia. The real castle was really tacky and old.

The real castle was actually a lot worse. It was a tacky, almost bordello looking sleazy place. His "castle" sat on top of a hill in a unremarkable, mostly middle class predominantly Latino/Asian suburb called Alhambra. It was said that when Phil Spector was arrested for murder most in Hollywood weren't surprised, yet when they found out that he lived in Alhambra many were shocked.

You should really read Ronnie Spector's book Be My Baby. She tells a story that really predates this incident. The book was published until the 1990's- and she had finally left him in 1974- it took her 16 years to publish her story. Ronnie's story is that of horror. What he did to her and the children is criminal. But she talks about the house in the book and explains how creepy it was them. So forty years later I am sure it was worse. Remember he did not work much in the 70's and less in the 80's. All he really did was stay in his house. The house that he bought forty or so years before that did not have much around hit. Ronnie talks about the isolation and how she finally left was can only be imagined as a hostage escaping a kidnapper. Except he kidnapper was her husband of six years. Great book full of very good musical history, the 1960's development of sound and the survival of a talented woman help captive.

I don't know what happen the night Lana Clarkson died. There are questions, but typically the simplest answer is the correct one.