Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Phil Spector showed it's possible to be a genius and a murderer 

Be My Baby is just one of the great songs he produced, but given the awful way he behaved through his life, it wasn't a huge surprise that Phil Spector ended up killing somebody 

Phil Spector and The Ronettes in 1963. He married Ronnie Bennett (centre), and subjected her to terrible abuse. 

The night Phil Spector died I got immediate texts telling me not to say anything about his passing on Twitter. Friends watching the social media reaction had been astounded by its toxicity. “Stay off it,” they said, or they will “fix it for you!” I stayed schtum.

But I was torn. ‘Be my Baby’ is an astounding song, and yet the man behind its beauty had also murdered Lana Clarkson. I struggled, but the next day was blessed to talk to Mick Brown, the author of Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector, who had interviewed Spector just weeks before the murder.