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Prison has been hard on Phil Spector

The ’do has run-run-run away.

Bewigged pop-producer-turned-murder convict Phil Spector is but a spectre of his former self in newly released photos from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Mug shots from the Stockton, Calif., prison show that age, confinement and a receding hairline have had their cruel way with the producer of hits including the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” and the Crystals’ “Da Doo Ron Ron.”

Phil Spector smiles at the camera at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in 2013.AP Photo

Spector — whose iconic songs also include the Beatles’ “Let It Be” and the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ ” — is serving a 19 years to life for the 2003 shooting murder of B-list actress Lana Clarkson.

The 40-year-old performer died from a gunshot wound to the head in what prosecutors said was one of the gun-fanatic producer’s twisted and drunken attacks on women.

“I think I just killed somebody,” Spector told his chauffeur moments later, holding a black Colt revolver as Clarkson lay in a puddle of blood on the floor of his Alhambra mansion.

Notably missing once again from the new jail photos are any of the numerous ­bizarre wigs that the vain Spector would wear to trials and hearings.

Viewers were first treated to wigless images Spector back in 2009, when his murder-booking photos were released. But the new images show Spector looking far more pale and gaunt than five years ago.

“He’s become Dobby from ‘Harry Potter,’ ” one wag tweeted, using a reference to an elf in the popular book and movie series.

Another tweeted the mug shot side-by-side with a pic of the cave-dwelling Gollum character from “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings,” writing, “One of these is Phil Spector.”

The 74-year-old is lodged in the prison’s health care facility, which lodges the state’s sickest inmates, including those suffering from mental illness.