ADDED: "Ronnie Spector, Ronettes Singer and Ultimate Girl-Group Icon, Dead at 78/'Her joyful sound, playful nature, and magical presence will live on in all who knew, heard, or saw her,' Spector’s family said of the 'Be My Baby' and 'Walking in the Rain' vocalist" (Rolling Stone).
“She will have her own place in history because there was nobody like her,” Darlene Love, who also worked with Spector in the early days, tells Rolling Stone. “When I first met her in 1964, she was this little bitty thing — she reminded me of a little Barbie doll. But then she had this big voice. The way she sang and moved onstage, that was rock & roll.”...
“As I said many times while he was alive, he was a brilliant producer, but a lousy husband,” [Ronnie Spector] said shortly after [Phil Spector] died last year. “Unfortunately, Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged. I still smile whenever I hear the music we made together, and always will. The music will be forever.”
