Harvey Phillip Spector was born into a lower middle class Jewish family on December 20, 1940, in the Bronx, New York, on December 26, 1940. His parents were first cousins, a fact that he later admitted in a newspaper interview, “might have had something to do with what I am or who I became.” His father committed suicide because of family indebtedness when Phil was only nine years of age, and this profoundly affected his personality. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1953 to make a new start. As a young boy, he served as an apprentice under Jerry … Continue reading →