Joe Meek blazed a trail for studio innovation that was followed by Phil Spector and The Beatles but, ... Recording a demo of himself wailing the tune, he had it transposed to piano, ...

The energy, craziness and often downright shabbiness of London's early '60s, pre-Beatles pop biz are vividly brought to life in "Telstar: The Joe Meek Story." ...

The name Joe Meek doesn’t mean much to the casual music listener. But Joe Meek, in one way or another, began changing music as we know it in the 1950s and ‘60s as a revolutionary producer and ...

Joe Meek was Britain's Phil Spector, and now his tormented life will be told on film. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent. Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Meek and his third wife, also a Nez Perce, whom he called Virginia after his birthplace in Washington County, Va., took up subsistence farming. They had 12 children, six of whom lived to be adults.

Restraint wasn’t the watchword. Around March 1965, Heinz was in Joe Meek’s North London recording studio taping “Big Fat Spider,” which became the B-side of his April single version of “Don’t Think ...

LONDON -- The long-gestating biopic of eccentric British record producer and 1960s music pioneer Joe Meek started spinning Monday after securing backing from flamboyant self-made multimillionaire ...

Joe Meek blazed a trail for studio innovation that was followed by Phil Spector and The Beatles but, as Mark Beaumont discovers, some still find his death suspicious. Jump to content.

The energy, craziness and often downright shabbiness of London's early '60s, pre-Beatles pop biz are vividly brought to life in "Telstar: The Joe Meek Story." Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...