Once Phil and Ronnie Spector married in 1968, the biography says, the singing sensation was practically imprisoned in their home until their divorce in 1974. "It's just one of those things that happened for that time." "I don't regret it," Ronnie Spector says now. The Ronettes, Be My Baby, Shout, Big T N T Show, Larry Peerce. But jealousy caused him to forbid the lead singer from going on the Beatles' last tour in 1966. Discover and share featured Ronettes GIFs on Gfycat. It was Phil Spector who was the architect of the Ronettes' greatest hits. Its pages recount how she started her group with her sister and cousin, how they were noticed for their looks first of all, hired to dance at the famous Peppermint Twist club, and how Spector pursued her, eventually seducing her while playing the single he had written, "Baby, I Love You," over and over on a record player. That material is what makes her 1990 autobiography "Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette" so juicy. The one subject that's forbidden in an interview with Ronnie Spector is Phil Spector, the influential hitmaker for whom the young Veronica "Ronnie" Bennett was his strongest, most distinctive voice.
Spector's most recent project was appearing as part of a "Wizard of Oz" concert with Debra Winger, Joel Grey, Natalie Cole, Jackson Browne, Phoebe Snow and Roger Daltrey, to be broadcast live on the TNT cable network Wednesday. None of these star turns had the success of her 1986 duet with Eddie Money, "Take Me Home Tonight," which reprised the chorus of "Be My Baby." She sang on Southside Johnny's debut and backed up Bruce Springsteen. Billy Joel wrote "Goodbye to Hollywood" for her, and she later recorded it.
And she's had no shortage of big names championing her name through the years. Ronnie Spector, at 52, is being featured in WDRC's revived Legends of Rock 'n' Roll concert Saturday at the Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford.
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