True Love Leaves No Traces

“Biographers and journalists have generally marked the end of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound era with the over-the-top production of River Deep—Mountain High for Ike and Tina Turner in 1966. A massive flop in the US, especially when compared to the enormous success of You’ve Lost that Lovin‘ Feeling from the Righteous Brothers, now acknowledged as the song with the most airplay in the 20th century, River Deep was the album that, ‘just never found a home.’ There is no straightforward explanation for the Wall of Sound’s decline. Despite all of its ingenuity, it may only be natural that things remain temporary in the world of pop music. Yet the Wall of Sound did not disappear so gently. In fact, one might argue that from the moment its popularity began to wane, it forged new ground as a trace of its former self.”

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