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Joe Meek: Recording Wizard

uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 11 February 1967

JOE MEEK, man behind the mammoth-selling 'Telstar' and many other hits, who was found dead with shotgun wounds in his Holloway, London, flat on Friday, always believed his sounds would succeed again in the chart — although he had been hitless for more than a year.

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