“He was distant and uncommunicative… and wore a different wig every day”: Starsailor singer James Walsh on working with Phil Spector

Phil Spector in 2007.

Here’s something you may have forgotten, if indeed you ever knew it at all: Phil Spector’s final production job wasn’t for some A-list artist or contemporary from the golden age of '60s pop, but with slightly obscure early Noughties indie band Starsailor.

A few months before he murdered actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion in LA, Spector had twiddled the knobs on two songs from the band’s 2003 album Silence Is Easy – the title track and White Dove.