The Wall Of Sound Came Tumbling Down Poem by Joe Rosochacki

It wasn’t the Wall of Berlin nor was it the Walls of Jericho,
For what’s it worth,
It wasn’t the Specter that 007 James Bond would fight.
It was Phil Spector,
-not Phil Spektor as he was named at birth,
Confused-I have the feeling,
I know,
I will hopefully explain later on in this observation.
Anyway,
he put a gun barrel into a mouth of a woman, Lana Clarkson,
-six years ago.
Blowing her head off
He was a ‘who’s who’ among the recording industry; not a nobody,
(Phil is listed in every Marquis edition of “Who’s Who” in every category, i.e.; “Who’s Who In The World”, etc, and has been for over twenty years.)
Phil got in trouble with law, the law he would test,
“But Spector also had a troubled reputation.
In the 1970s, he got probation for possessing and brandishing a gun.
Singer Leonard Cohen, (a Jewish-American folk singer,)
-once said the producer held a gun to his chest.”
Until the one eventful early morn on February 3rd,2003,
When Spector allegedly said to his chauffeur, 'I think I killed somebody.'

Phil Spector was an icon in the music recording industry.
An Icon enough that he thought he would get away with murder,
I think that in a way he thought of himself as a ‘god’,

(In essence,
Much of the case hinged on the testimony of five women from Spector's past who said he threatened them with guns when they tried to leave his presence. The parallels with the night Clarkson died were chilling even if the stories were very old — 31 years in one instance.)

Much like Wagner,
-no, not Robert, the Hollywood actor,
-Richard, the 19th century German composer,
In his day,
Spector constructed music beyond music,
Layers upon layers of instrumentation,
Spector himself called his technique
-'a Wagnerian approach to rock & roll: little symphonies for the kids'.
Phil Spector is a Jew and Richard Wagner wrote a rather spiteful essay,
- Judaism in Music (1850) ,
Hum? !
Adolph Hitler considered Wagner one of his mentors,
Being the Wagner was anti-Semitic and one of the original ‘NAZI’s.
(It is confusing to this author, how someone of Jewish descent would model
the production of sound after a man who influenced a man who has killed millions
of Jewish people.)
Robert Zimmerman (also a Jew, aka Bob Dylan) did concur,
'The world could use a new Phil Spector record, that's for sure.'
(Bob Dylan: Rolling Stone Nov/Dec 1987)
Phil Spector has a legal record now that the law would endure.

For Lana Clarkson, her Kirstallnacht,
(Not the Crystals and their hit “Da Doo Ron, Ron, Ron”)
was on February 3,2003,
This Barbarian Queen met her match.

So at 69, Phil will not be in his Alhambra “Castle” located in the Pyrenees,
Somewhere on the outskirts of Los Angeles,
He mostly likely will be in San Quentin,
Or Folsom Prison,
Were he could ‘Imagine’ producing a record by Johnny Cash,
Maybe time will hold the process of healin’,
For the late Lana Clarkson’s family,
For Phil, “He’d lost that lovin’ feelin’.. woah that lovin’ feelin…”

(5-30-09)