You’re a motherfucking pussycat. You don’t even known how to use that [gun]

Leonard Cohen reporting that he taunted Phil Spector’s bodyguard. From That Leonard Cohen Article With His Romanian Girlfriend Michelle In The Opening Photo

Are you out of your brains? This album [Death Of A Ladies’ Man] is junk. It’s your father’s masturbation. I love Marty [Machat,]. He’s my brother. But I never want to see that man [Phil] Spector again. He is the worst human being I have ever met

Leonard Cohen On Death of a Ladies’ Man - the album on which he and Phil Spector collaborated, brought together by their mutual agent, Marty Machat. Cohen is speaking here to Steven Machat, who was given responsibility for this album by his father’s firm. Quote is from “Gods, Gangsters and Honour,” Machat’s forthcoming book on his experiences in show business.

If You Want Another Kind Of Love I’ll Wear A Mask For You Halloween masks bearing the likenesses of Leonard Cohen, Anjani, and - for those who demand a scary countenance on Halloween - Phil Spector.

river deep is a well written appreciation of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, as demonstrated by this massive production of Ike & Tina Turner’s “River Deep-Mountain High” by Darlene Love on The Letterman Show.  The blogger, emscee, while not defending Spector’s dark side:

And one night at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after-party, I saw him [Spector] drunk and verbally berating perfect strangers. It was sad and unsettling

goes on to  speculate,

It was a loving recreation, and you just knew that Paul Shaffer, a Spector fan and friend, assembled it to remind us that the tragic, frail guy at the defense table once created moments of true majesty.

In any case, the video and post are effective reminders why Leonard Cohen, the Beatles, and other performers solicited Spector’s skills. Again, that essay can be found at emscee - river deep.