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The Ronettes opened for the Beatles on their 1966 US tour, becoming the only girl group to tour with them, before splitting up in 1967. In the 1970s, the group was briefly revived as Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes. Veronica Bennett married Phil Spector in 1968. Their song "Be My Baby" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
In 1988, she and the other members of the Ronettes sued Phil Spector for nonpayment of royalties and for unpaid income he made from licensing of Ronettes’ music. In 2001, a New York court announced a verdict in favor of the Ronettes, ordering him to pay $2.6 million in back royalties. [47]
Bennett (right) with the Ronettes. When Bennett was 14, she and her sister Ronnie, and their cousin Nedra Talley started singing together. After a number of unsuccessful attempts, the trio reinvented themselves as the Ronettes. Signed up by 23-year-old Phil Spector, Ronnie became lead, with Estelle and Nedra as backing.
Spector enjoyed the highs of chart-topping success and a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and dealt with the lows of an abusive marriage to record producer Phil Spector.
Music icon Ronnie Spector has died. The celebrated vocalist was 78.Spector -- who was born Veronica Bennett -- died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer, according to a statement released by ...
Ronnie Spector, whose hard-edged yet tremulous voice soared on the Ronettes’ girl-group hits of the early ‘60s, died on Wednesday of cancer. She was 78. “Our beloved earth angel, Ronnie ...
Nedra Talley (born January 27, 1946), [1] now known as Nedra Talley-Ross, is a retired American singer.She is best known as a former member of the girl group the Ronettes, in which she performed with her cousins Ronnie and Estelle Bennett. [2]
Be My Baby recounts Spector's roller-coaster career as lead singer of the Ronettes and her emotionally abusive marriage to Phil Spector. [4] Born in Spanish Harlem, Veronica Bennett always loved to sing. As teens, she, her sister, and her cousin met an agent who introduced them to a producer, and they made a record.