Ronnie Spector 1943-2021

[felser]

Thought she deserved her own thread rather than being buried in the Phil Spector thread.  Thankful she escaped him.   The nightmare start to 2022 continues.

Edited January 13, 2022 by felser

[Rooster_Ties]

8 minutes ago, felser said:

Thought she deserved her own thread rather than being buried in the Phil Spector thread.

Thank you!

[JSngry]

 

[clifford_thornton]

RIP. What an icon and what a voice.

[Teasing the Korean]

When I lived in Beantown, they used to do free summer outdoor concerts at Government Center, which was Scollay Square before the sad destruction of the West End.

I worked in one of the buildings that was part of the West End Urban Renewal project, the State Services building.  This imposing brutalist structure was designed by Paul Rudolph, who is better known for his Sarasota mid-century modern homes.  While I have mixed feelings about brutalism, the destruction of the West End impedes my ability to assess the building purely on aesthetic terms.  I once described it as a fascist headquarters as if designed by M.C. Escher.

At any rate, I was finishing my shift, and just as I stepped onto Staniford Street, I heard:  Boom ba-boom POP Boom ba-boom POP.  As I walked up the hill on Staniford Street, I listened.  I then heard Ronnie Spector:  "The night we met I knew I needed you so..."  She was performing that day.  I continued on Staniford, and made a left on Cambridge, walking toward Government Center.  Ronnie kept singing. The song ended as I walked through the turnstile to take the Green Line.  My walk was perfectly timed with "Be My Baby;" it accompanied me the whole way.

Edited January 14, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[Jim Duckworth]

I caught Ronnie Spector at the Limelight in NYC just shy of forty years ago.  It was an energetic performance; to this day I have never seen any performer grab his/her crotch as much as she did.

Edited January 14, 2022 by Jim Duckworth
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[JSngry]

 

[Teasing the Korean]