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.

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story 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." ...

Joe Meek, lyrics for ‘Loneliness’, sung by Mike Berry. It’s too soon to know how the destruction – sorry, regeneration – of London’s Denmark Street will benefit the musicians whose legacy it has been ...

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 ...

Between September, 1960, when Michael Cox's "Along Came Caroline" gave RGM Sound its first hit (albeit a lowly #41), and the end of '62, when the Beatles arrived to rearrange the entire British ...