The only thing most people think of when Phil Spector comes to mind is that hair. Or maybe those boots. Didn’t he kill someone or something? Somebody seems to think so, as Spector currently stands trial for murder, and of all the people watching, Mick Brown is perhaps one of the most anxious. Brown is Spector’s biographer and interviewed the infamous record producer some two months before the alleged killing of actress Lana Clarkson took place. The writer just recently came on NPR to discuss that interview, and the resulting book, Tearing Down the Wall of Sound.

Read the excerpt and listen to the interview, in which Brown plays clips from the last Spector interview, and discusses the current state of the trial.