Songwriting is a form of myth-making, done in code. For an impressive stretch of the 1960s, Phil Spector was the rare (arguably only) pop music empresario who had end-to-end control of an extensive myth-fabricating apparatus: He developed the chiming songs and found the artists to sing them, framed every aspect of orchestration and production, concerned himself with the imaging and the marketing.
Great Phil Spector assessment. Reads like a poem.