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More Spector Magic out of the Hat

Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 11 June 1966

PROBABLY, PHIL SPECTOR was the only person in the world who could have produced a record for Ike and Tina Turner that could make the charts in Britain. Just as Ike and Tina were slipping into relative obscurity here, and Phil lost the Righteous Brothers, the news of the combination came through and everyone wondered what the finished product would be like.

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