hits of Phil Spector — and there are many of them — depend on a theatrical maximalism

producer, Spector’s innovation was the “Wall of Sound,” a shock-and-awe approach to music that

today is, rightly, more rooted in the events of his life than in the

in 2021, incarcerated for the 2003 murder of the actor Lana Clarkson

a four-part documentary series on Showtime directed by Sheena M

Don Argott, works to make a case that his music — its particular qualities and the

artists, Spector drew from life; his first hit, the Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him Is

was a child, his father died by suicide, a violent and baleful act that hung

his situation, Vikram Jayanti — a documentarian who conducted a rare interview with Spector — tells the

brief engagement with his childhood, we arrive at his prodigious early music career, in which