# Phil Spector dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [January 17, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phil-spector-dead/930741 "2021-01-17T17:22:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phil-spector-dead/930741/29 "2021-01-17T21:52:41Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > > [@Procrustus](#): > > > > I guess I had previously thought it was like a movie producer > > I think it’s closer to a movie _director_ , in terms of direct oversight of the creative & technical process. Yes. A little more info can be found in this old thread: > [@Music producers, engineers, etc. Job description?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-producers-engineers-etc-job-description/679972): > > I’ve been reading a lot of biographies of bands lately and it occurred to me I have no idea what a producer does during the recording of an album. I know some are considered legends and some are shit. I know that bands either love or hate them regardless of the record’s success. But what the hell do they do? Write new lyrics? Give direction? (I always figured what you got on an album was what the band meant the song to sound like.) Anything else I’m forgetting to mention? And what does the engi… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phil-spector-dead/930741)._