Flamboyant music legend Phil Spector is practically bald and looking worse for prison wear in new prison photos released Wednesday by the California Department of Corrections.

Spector, 74, looks somber and older as he stares at the camera in a photo taken last October. This was in stark contrast to a previous July 2013 prison photo in which he was smiling following conviction for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson. The contrast is even more striking to his look when he rocked Afro wigs at court and in public during six years of trials related to the Clarkson murder.

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After two highly publicized trials, including one that ended in mistrial, Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison in 2009 when found guilty of second-degree murder.

The new photo showing the toll prison and age have taken in the former music producer famed for his legendary "Wall of Sound" was snapped as a mug shot when he was moved to the California Health Care Facility in Stockton. That's a facility used to house inmates who are seriously ill or suffering from chronic maladies.

Information pertaining to Spector's physical or mental condition couldn't be released, said Tammy Thornton, a corrections department spokeswoman, citing medical privacy laws.

Spector's aging show revealed through the new photo release was in stark contrast to the strange look with bizarre wigs he wore during his two trials. Testimony about his bizarre behavior given at the trials diminished his reputation as a musical genius who worked with intricate arrangements and vocal harmonies on such classic songs as "You've Lost that Loving Feeling" and "Da Doo Ron Ron."

Spector also famously produced the "Let it Be" album of the Beatles and worked with the Ramones, Righteous Brothers and Leonard Cohen to name a few of the many musical legends who used his services.

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