Ronnie Spector Ronnie Spector: Be My Baby - Mein Leben

Ronnie Sepctor: sweet teenage dreams and an excessive life

Veronica Yvette Bennett aka Ronnie Spector (10 August 1943 - 12 January 2022) had the most style-defining female voice in rock'n'roll. She defined the image of girl groups with the Ronettes and inspired Amy Winehouse, among others. Shortly before her death, the author managed to update her autobiography, which had already been published several times in the English-speaking world.

Ronnie Spector, who grew up in Spanish Harlem, enchanted the world as the lead singer of the Ronettes with immortal songs like 'Be My Baby'. Her image: highly toupeed hair, extreme make-up and skin-tight dresses. The Rolling Stones adored her, John Lennon tried to seduce her, teenagers raved about her. But what sounds like the beginning of a modern fairy tale turned into a nightmare of brutal abuse and humiliation during her marriage to producer genius Phil Spector. Years of alcoholism, comebacks and setbacks followed.

In her autobiography, voted one of the top 20 best rock'n'roll memoirs of all time by Rolling Stone, Spector recounts a life caught between extremes - perceptive, insightful and emotional. She takes readers on a long journey that leads from the seething melting pot of New York to a well-deserved induction into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 and a harmonious family life. A worthy testament that will be complemented by the biopic starring Zendaya (Dune, Spider-Man, among others) coming to cinemas in 2023.