Famed record producer Phil Spector [ tickets ] was charged with murder on Thursday (11/20) in connection with the February shooting death of a woman at his home.

Spector, 63, is scheduled to be arraigned on the charge--and a charge of using a handgun in the crime--on Thursday afternoon, according to published reports. He remains free on $1 million bail.

Police arrested Spector at his Alhambra, CA, estate on Feb. 3, after police responding to a 911 call found the body of actress Lana Clarkson, 40, in his home. He reportedly met the victim hours earlier at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, CA, where she worked as a hostess.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office said in September that Clarkson died of a single gunshot wound to the head, and another person fired the gun, the coroner found.

Spector has denied shooting Clarkson, and suggested in an Esquire magazine interview that she shot herself.

Spector is best known as the creator of the "Wall of Sound" production style, which involved the layering of multiple instrumental tracks. Among the hits he produced were the Ronettes' "Be My Baby," the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" and the Crystals' "Then He Kissed Me."

Spector is famously reclusive and eccentric. The late Dee Dee Ramone once said that Spector pulled a gun on the Ramones at one point during the recording of the band's 1980 album "End of the Century"--which wound up being the last major album that Spector produced. Nonetheless, Marky Ramone told the Fox News Channel after the shooting that "I don't think he would hurt a fly."

Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.