Robert Evans

There were recurring stories of Spector inserting himself into songwriting or production roles and minimizing the contributions of others once success became likely.

In some cases, he was accused of leaving collaborators off credits entirely, a move that not only deprived them of recognition but also cut them out of long-term royalty income.

So he's already just ruthless.

So there's something that I wanna bring up here, which is about the way that writing works or writing a song works, right?

Which is like, the deal is, if there is no prior agreement

If two people just walk into a room and write a song together, it is 50- And not as part of a pre-existing business arrangement or whatever where there's already a contract.

No one specified like, hey- Spontaneous art.

Yes.

If nothing is specified, it is a 50-50 split.

Doesn't matter if one person wrote one word and the other wrote the entire song and all.

He was like, if you come into that, if it's three people, it's 33 to third.

If it's four, it's 25%.

Unless you have already agreed to something, that's what the legal split is for this whole situation.

So for him to come into sessions and be jumping right on, it's like, I've seen this before.

Somebody walks in the room and starts suggesting things and you're just like...

you just took a portion of my, my cut of this song and your suggestions were things I was going to do anyways.

That's kind of annoying.

You know, it's like, it's really easy to finagle in this time period, especially, um,

So a fellow writer named Beverly Ross who helped Phil recalled his promises to bring her with him if he were to ever get into the right rooms, but he reneged immediately upon being granted opportunities.

She saw Phil as a user and she was eventually offered a staff job, but she declined it because she would have to see Phil every day.