| Darlene Love to R&R Hall of Fame
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Darlene Love to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame March 14, 2011.
. . . Love would learn that there was a downside to letting someone else define you. At first, she says, she was thrilled when a young producer named Phil Spector offered her the lead vocal in a new song.
"He wanted me to do 'He's a Rebel,' and he would pay me triple scale to do it, along with the Blossoms, because he said he knew this song was going to be a hit," Love says.
He was right. "He's a Rebel" shot to the top of the pop charts. But the song was credited to The Crystals — a girl group from New York that Spector had nurtured through several minor hits. He would go on to produce a number of chart-toppers for the Blossoms, sometimes under the name The Crystals, sometimes as Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans. Love says she got tired of the name-swapping.
"I told him, 'This is ridiculous. I know you can make hits, and I ain't making no more hits under nobody else's name but my own,' " she says. http://www.npr.org/2011/02/16/133750...the-background
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