Nedra Talley Ross, Last Surviving Member of the Ronettes, Dies at 80

With towering hairdos and perfect harmonies, she and her cousins Ronnie and Estelle brought a fresh edge to the girl-group sound in hits like “Be My Baby.”Nedra Talley (later Nedra Talley Ross) around 1970. The Ronettes, the trio in which she was joined by two of her cousins, helped define the producer Phil Spector’s revolutionary “wall of sound.”