Pop links: Spidey sounds, Phil Spector, Batman trading card art, more "Spectacle" from Elvis Costello

Today in sharity:



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NPR recounts the troubled, and troubling, career of record producer and convicted second-degree murderer Phil Spector.

Long before the jury's final verdict, Spector had vanished from the music industry. He hadn't completed an album since the 1970s. But it almost didn't matter. Spector produced some of the greatest recordings of the 20th century — with Ike and Tina Turner, The Ronettes, The Beatles and many others — but his work was always colored by his mental state.

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A "special edition bundle" for the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game will include instruments modeled after the band's own guitars, bass and drums.

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents some 1960s Batman trading card art by Norman Saunders.



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The Sundance Channel is renewing Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" music talk show.

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