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Spector publicist reveals prison isn’t nice
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 30 July 2009
Phil Spector’s publicist has revealed that the noted producer and murderer isn’t having much fun in prison because there’s not a lot to do. Turns out it’s not like a holiday camp, after all.
Hal Lifson told the BBC 6 Music: “He’s doing fair, at best, if not worse than fair. He’s not doing great. He’s in a horrible situation with virtually nothing to do all day. Phil Spector was always a highly productive, creative person and now he’s in a five by nine foot cell with no windows and maybe a half hour outside to walk around. It’s essentially solitary confinement. He doesn’t have computer access, he only recently got a little TV. It’s a terrible existence for a millionaire record producer who lived in mansions and most recently in a castle, a 35-room home. It’s a huge, huge change of life for Phil Spector and a devastating turn in his life”.
Yeah, he’s got a point. Celebrities should probably be allowed to go to a special, more fun celebrity prison, or just serve their sentences at home.
Lifson also said that Spector was worried about reports in the press that he had been contacted by that other murdering chap Charles Manson about a possible musical collaboration. Quite rightly, he thinks that an association with Manson might not cast him in the best light when he comes to appeal his sentence next year. The publicist said: “Phil Spector has been very, very alarmed and scared at the notion of Charles Manson contacting him for any reason. He is very worried that any association be made between himself and Charles Manson. He mentioned that he used to get phone calls from John Lennon and Tina Turner and now it’s Charles Manson calling, so he said, ‘Go figure’. It was kind of a dark humour comment”.
Speaking about the producer’s appeal, he said that he will take his case to state court next year. If that appeal fails, he will go to the federal court of appeal in Washington.
