The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

60 mins | Documentary, Music | Feb. 8, 1991

Documentary about the influential pop composer and record producer Joe Meek, who died in dramatic circumstances in 1967 after a bizarre childhood and a career, often controversial, which spanned the period from the mid-50s to the rise of the Beatles in the 60s. At the end of his life he was suffering from paranoid delusions that people were watching him through walls. Alan Lewens' film charts an Ortonesque tale of post-war Britain.

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

60 mins | Documentary, Music | Feb. 8, 1991

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
Documentary about the influential pop composer and record producer Joe Meek, who died in dramatic circumstances in 1967 after a bizarre childhood and a career, often controversial, which spanned the period from the mid-50s to the rise of the Beatles in the 60s. At the end of his life he was suffering from paranoid delusions that people were watching him through walls. Alan Lewens' film charts an Ortonesque tale of post-war Britain.
Producers BBC Arena
Original title The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
Directors Alan Lewens
Writers

Cast

Joe Meek

as Himself (archive footage)

Pete Murray

as Narrator

Lonnie Donegan

as Himself

Andrew Crawford

as Newsreader (voice)

George Bellamy

as Himself (with The Tornados) (archive footage)

June Barrie

as Joe Meek's Mother (voice)

Heinz Burt

as Himself

Chad Carson

as Himself

Clem Cattini

as Himself

Geoff Goddard

as Himself

Tony Grinham

as Himself

Adrian Kerridge

as Himself

Jess Conrad

as Himself

Jonathan King

as Himself

Roger LaVern

as Himself (archive footage)

John Leyton

as Himself

Humphrey Lyttelton

as Himself

Arthur Meek

as Himself

Eric Meek

as Himself

Mickie Most

as Himself

Patrick Pink

as Himself

David Sutch

as Himself