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The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

1991·Directed by Alan Lewens

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Released
February 8, 1991
Runtime
1h

About The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

  • Music
  • Documentary
  • TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

Director
  • ALAlan Lewens

Principal cast

In billing order
  • JMJoe MeekHimself (archive footage)
  • PMPete MurrayNarrator
  • Lonnie DoneganHimself
  • Andrew CrawfordNewsreader (voice)
  • GBGeorge BellamyHimself (with The Tornados) (archive footage)
  • JBJune BarrieJoe Meek's Mother (voice)
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