Robert Evans

He doesn't get any better.

This is his pattern.

He keeps going.

But they do break up.

Him and Lynn break up.

And he starts expressing a desire to relocate back to New York City.

New York offered something that he really wanted, which was proximity to a legitimacy.

In New York at the time, there is a building called the Brill Building.

And we're going to tell you this.

Well, I'll just read because it's better to read than summarize, I think.

Spectre quickly embedded himself in the brew-building ecosystem, the highly competitive songwriting and production factory that produced some of the most influential pop music of the era.

The environment was famously ruthless.

Young writers churned out songs daily, competing for placement with artists and labels.

Success required speed, instinct, and relentless self-promotion.

Spectre thrived creatively, but developed a reputation almost immediately for opportunism.

So...

I just read this thing where it's like, hey, everybody's cutthroat up in this shit.

And then it's like, Spectre immediately gets a reputation for being opportunistic in a cutthroat building.

To be opportunistic, to be like that in a cutthroat building, you definitely... In the music industry, to be a cutthroat, for people to be like, that guy is fucking ruthless, is something, yeah.

Multiple collaborators from this period later accused him of aggressively positioning himself for credit and financial participation in projects that were often collaborative efforts.