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[JaneMarple]

I just got an NBC news brief that Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes has died, she was 78.. 

[meallen616]

[insomniac2]

Oh, I loved her voice so much!

[JaneMarple]

I was a preschooler in 1965 and thought that she was the most beautiful woman ever. I loved her hair and makeup and wanted to be her. My brother (16 years older than me) had a girlfriend who styled herself after The Ronettes so I loved it when she came to visit.

[ValuSkr]

She follows her former husband, Phil Spector, in death by almost exactly a year.  He died 1/16/2021.  They were married from 1968 to 1974; he was reportedly abusive.

[golding76]

That "Wall of Sound."  Never been anything like it again.

I loved "Be My Baby" and "Baby, I Love You."   Incomparable with their magic.

May she rest in peace.  I'd read that she was very much abused by husband Phil.

[Johnnyeager]

Ronnie addressed the abuse straightforwardly in her 1990 memoir "Be My Baby."  A movie adaptation is in the works.

[Witchy Woman]

I was so saddened to hear this tonight.  Another wonderful artist from my youth now gone.

Her looks, her sound...nothing like them for someone like me growing up in a town of 2,000 people in the Midwest.  She was the "It" girl to me seeming to have it all.  Beauty, talent, fame.  Of course, her life was not perfect, but it seemed so at the time.

She was and always will be one of a kind.  Singing along to her music just made me happy...those "girl" groups were just the best.

Hoping she is singing in Heaven.  Goodbye Ronnie.

[gertrudecloset]

RIP.  I hadn't heard about this.  Thanks for letting us know @JaneMarple .

[kaydee50]

Just read her obit in the NY Times.  Loved The Ronettes!  Be My Baby is one of my alltime favorites.  RIP!