“Do I have to tell you that Ronnie’s got one of the greatest
female rock-and-roll voices of all time? She stands alone.” —Keith
Richards
Be My Baby is
the behind-the-scenes story—newly updated, and with an especially
timely message—of how the original bad girl of rock and roll,
Ronnie Spector, survived marriage to a monster and carved out a space
for herself amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene and beyond.
Ronnie’s first
collaboration with producer Phil Spector, “Be
My Baby,” shot Ronnie and the Ronettes to stardom. No one
sounded like Ronnie, with her alluring blend of innocence and
knowing, but her voice would soon be silenced as Spector sequestered
her behind electric gates, guard dogs, and barbed wire.
It took everything
Ronnie had to escape her prisonlike marriage and wrest back control
of her life, her music, and her legacy. And as shown in this edition,
which includes a 2021 postscript from Ronnie, her life became proof
that our challenges do not define us and there is always the
potential to forge a fuller life.
In Be My Baby,
the incomparable Ronnie Spector offered a whirlwind account of the
ever-shifting path of an iconic artist. And, more than anything else,
she gave us an inspiring tale of triumph.
