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At the urging of Bob Dylan, record producer Phil Spector and beat poet Allen Ginsberg spend the evening at Spector's home in Los Angeles, California, USA, planning to make some recordings together.Full article:
Allen Ginsberg : Dylan wanted him to produce me. It was Christmas and The Byrds were playing in The Trip on Sunset Strip in Hollywood. I was there with Dylan and Albert and Sally Grossman, and we ran into Spector.
So I spent Christmas Eve with him and taught him Hare Krishna – which later turned up in another form as My Sweet Lord. I was hoping he'd do something with it then, because he grasped it instantly and made something very beautiful of it in his house, improvising around the melody, which was different to the official one, but one I'd learnt in India. Later that week he took me out to see Lenny Bruce, and we talked about the legal problems of avoiding censorship.
Dylan kept telling Spector, 'Work with Ginsberg. He's got words.' But nothing ever happened. I would have been interested, because I liked Spector. He was a nice Jewish boy. (Record Collector, February 1995)
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So I spent Christmas Eve with him and taught him Hare Krishna – which later turned up in another form as My Sweet Lord. I was hoping he'd do something with it then, because he grasped it instantly and made something very beautiful of it in his house, improvising around the melody, which was different to the official one, but one I'd learnt in India. Later that week he took me out to see Lenny Bruce, and we talked about the legal problems of avoiding censorship.
Dylan kept telling Spector, 'Work with Ginsberg. He's got words.' But nothing ever happened. I would have been interested, because I liked Spector. He was a nice Jewish boy. (Record Collector, February 1995)