Editing Ronnie Spector (section)

===1983–2002: "Take Me Home Tonight", ''Unfinished Business'', and return to music===
In 1986, Ronnie Spector enjoyed a resurgence of popular radio airplay as the featured vocalist on [[Eddie Money]]'s Top 5 hit, "[[Take Me Home Tonight (song)|Take Me Home Tonight]]", in which she answers Money's chorus lyric, "just like Ronnie sang", with, "be my little baby". The song's music video was one of the top videos of the year and in heavy rotation on [[MTV]]. During this period, she also recorded the song "Tonight You're Mine, Baby" (from the film ''[[Just One of the Guys]]'').<ref name= ":3">{{Cite news| url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/10676805/Ronnie-Spector-interview-The-more-Phil-tried-to-destroy-me-the-stronger-I-got.html|title=Ronnie Spector interview: 'The more Phil tried to destroy me, the stronger I got'| work= The Daily Telegraph| access-date=August 6, 2017 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1988, she began performing at the Ronnie Spector's Christmas Party, a seasonal staple at [[B.B. King Blues Club & Grill]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite news|author=Reed, James |date=December 23, 2008| url= https://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/12/23/still_rockin_around/ |title=Still rockin' around| work= [[The Boston Globe]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bbkingblues.com/bio.php?id=2025|title= RONNIE SPECTOR'S BEST CHRISTMAS PARTY EVER!| website= [[B.B. King Blues Club & Grill]]|location= New York|year= 2013| access-date= May 28, 2014|archive-date= May 29, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140529052247/http://www.bbkingblues.com/bio.php?id=2025|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://calendar.northjersey.com/brooklyn_ny/events/show/352005703-ronnie-spector|title= Events: Ronnie Spector|website= [[NorthJersey.com]]|year= 2013|access-date= May 28, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20140528215955/http://calendar.northjersey.com/brooklyn_ny/events/show/352005703-ronnie-spector|archive-date= May 28, 2014| df= mdy-all}}</ref> In 1999, she released the EP, ''[[She Talks to Rainbows]]'', which featured a few covers of older songs. [[Joey Ramone]] acted as producer.<ref>{{Cite web| last= Phipps|first=Keith|date=August 22, 1999| title= Ronnie Spector| url= https://www.avclub.com/ronnie-spector-1798208039|access-date=January 13, 2022|website=The A.V. Club|language=en-us}}</ref>

In 1988, she and the other members of the Ronettes sued Phil Spector for nonpayment of royalties and for unpaid income he made from licensing of Ronettes’ music. In 2001, a New York court announced a verdict in favor of the Ronettes, ordering him to pay $2.6 million in back royalties.<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-17-mn-41981-story.html|title=Ronettes Entitled to Back Pay From Phil Spector, Judge Rules|date=June 17, 2000|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> The judgment was overturned by a Court of Appeals in 2002 and remanded back to the [[New York State Supreme Court]]. The judges found that their contract gave Phil unconditional rights to the recordings. It was ruled that Ronnie was entitled to her share of the royalties, which she had forfeited in her divorce settlement, but they reversed a lower court's ruling that the group were entitled to the music industry's standard 50 percent royalty rate.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Worth |first=Robert F. |date=October 18, 2002 |title=A Sad Song for the Ronettes: Court Reverses Royalty Rights |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/18/nyregion/a-sad-song-for-the-ronettes-court-reverses-royalty-rights.html |website=The New York Times}}</ref> In the outcome, Phil paid in excess of $1 million to Ronnie Spector.<ref name= ":5">{{Cite news| last=Sisario| first= Ben|date=February 14, 2009| title= Estelle Bennett, a Singer for the Ronettes, Is Dead at 67|language=en-US|work=The New York Times| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/arts/music/14bennett.html|access-date= December 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In December 1998, having just signed to the [[Creation Records]] label, she appeared on the BBC's ''[[Later... with Jools Holland]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005jfhz|title=BBC Two - Later... with Jools Holland, Series 12, Episode 8|publisher=BBC}}</ref>