But at the end of World War II, as Parisians celebrated the liberation of their city from German barbarians, delighted locals filled its streets as church bells rang out from the Mairie de Versailles ...

The name Joe Meek doesn’t mean much to the casual music listener. But Joe Meek, in one way or another, began changing music as we know it in the 1950s and ‘60s as a revolutionary producer and engineer ...

WHO was responsible for Telstar? Some of you old enough to remember the song could name the Tornados. However, those who know music in detail would be able to go a step further and say Joe Meek, the ...

TELSTAR, the 1962 instrumental hit by the Tornados, was created as a tribute to the world’s first communications satellite. It was composed and produced by a pioneering electronics genius, Joe Meek.

The energy, craziness and often downright shabbiness of London’s early ’60s, pre-Beatles pop biz are vividly brought to life in “Telstar: The Joe Meek Story,” a biopic of the legendary ...