In 1964, the group traveled to England to play a series of shows with the Rolling Stones the following year. “He was in complete control, directing everyone. “Watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,” she said. After a few unsuccessful singles, Phil Spector signed them and immediately began writing songs specifically for her voice. Calling themselves the Darling Sisters, they performed around the city while still attending George Washington High School. Veronica Yvette Bennett grew up in New York City and started singing with her sister Estelle and their cousin Nedra Talley at a young age. I still smile whenever I hear the music we made together, and always will. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged. “Unfortunately, Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. “As I said many times while he was alive, he was a brilliant producer, but a lousy husband,” she said shortly after he died last year. In her 1990 memoir, Be My Baby, she wrote that her relationship with Spector was marked by years of horrible violence and abuse. Phil Spector, who began an affair with Ronnie shortly after he signed the group in 1963, produced all of the group’s hits. The way she sang and moved onstage, that was rock & roll.” “When I first met her in 1964, she was this little bitty thing - she reminded me of a little Barbie doll.
“She will have her own place in history because there was nobody like her,” Darlene Love, who also worked with Spector in the early days, tells Rolling Stone.
Ronnie’s music and spirit will live forever.” “I loved her voice so much, and she was a very special person and a dear friend. “I just heard the news about Ronnie Spector, and I don’t know what to say,” Wilson said in a statement shortly after the news of her death broke.
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