The Tornados – Telstar – New improved stereo remix

5 April 1929, Born on this day, Joe Meek, English record producer, sound engineer and songwriter who pioneered space age and experimental pop music. He produced ‘Telstar’ the 1962 UK and US No.1 single by The Tornadoes, the first British act to have a No.1 in the US. Meek also produced ‘Johnny Remember Me (John Leyton, 1961), ‘Just Like Eddie’ (Heinz, 1963) and ‘Have I the Right?’ (the Honeycombs, 1964). On 3 February 1967 Meek killed his landlady Violet Shenton and then shot himself dead with a single-barrelled shotgun. https://youtu.be/WPDvsLSnUGc

The Tornados – Telstar – New improved stereo remix

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