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Censoring creativity

Who gets to decide whether an artist has been a ‘good’ person?

20 February 2021

9:00 AM

20 February 2021

9:00 AM

When the creator of the ‘wall of sound’ died recently, the BBC declared in its headline ‘Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81’. Even allowing for British understatement, this was a somewhat astonishing headline, given that Spector died in jail where he was confined for murdering Lana Clarkson.

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