Joe Meek
13 articles
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Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 25 May 2000
Innovative songwriter in an era before the Beatles ...
Heinz Burt: The Last Interview
Sleeve notes by Chris Welch, Repertoire Records, 1999
In 1999 Chris Welch interviewed singer and Tornados bass guitarist Heinz Burt about his early career and final years as a rock'n'roll legend. In this ...
A Tribute to Joe Meek— Far Out Before His Time
Retrospective by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 October 1978
THROUGHOUT his career, British record producer Joe Meek showed a strong and consistent fascination with outer space and supernatural themes. A kind of backroom electronic ...
Hearing A New World: The Joe Meek Story
Retrospective by John McCready, MOJO, May 2001
NOTE: This piece originally featured in Mojo magazine in a truncated 8,000 word edit. this is the full near-12,000 word original piece. This is such ...
Retrospective and Interview by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, December 1972
EVEN IF HE was born in Germany as the music papers said, we always suspected that Heinz's hair wasn't really that colour. It was his ...
The decline in power of the record Tsars
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 August 1964
ARE THE Record Companies losing their grip? There are eight British records in the Top Ten. Of these eight, only three have been recorded by ...
Rumour About The Outlaws Made Their Disc Company Panic...
Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 29 June 1963
THERE WAS a rumour last Christmas that the Outlaws were to break up. It was of course, untrue, but the rumour spread pretty quickly throughout ...
Faith Plus Enthusiasm: Heinz' Success Story
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 17 August 1963
SO HEINZ crashes handsomely into the charts. After the false start of his debut solo disc, 'Dreams Do Come True', his "heartfelt" tribute to Eddie ...
Obituary by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 February 1967
SO JOE Meek is dead. Dead in tragic and rather sordid circumstances. While the enquiries go on, while the circumstances are fully investigated, it is ...
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 9 March 1963
HAS HEINZ Burt done the right thing in leaving the Tornados? Or would he have been wiser to stick with the group until they had ...
Comment by Sean O'Hagan, Observer Music Monthly, October 2003
Popular music will always need eccentrics, the people who show mainstream life how things can be stranger, more beautiful, or just... different. These 10 singers, ...
Various Artists: It's Hard to Believe It - the Amazing World of Joe Meek (Razor & Tie)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Spin, 1995
WHO WAS Joe Meek? A cut-price Spector crafting pocket symphonies in his North London studio for a stable of dodgy pre-Beatles combos? Yes, but the ...
Obituary by 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, ...
see also Geoffrey Goddard
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