The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

Overview

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.

Directed by Alan Lewens

Top cast

J

Joe Meek

Himself (archive footage)

P

Pete Murray

Narrator

Lonnie Donegan

Himself

Andrew Crawford

Newsreader (voice)

G

George Bellamy

Himself (with The Tornados) (archive footage)

J

June Barrie

Joe Meek's Mother (voice)

H

Heinz Burt

Himself

C

Chad Carson

Himself

C

Clem Cattini

Himself

G

Geoff Goddard

Himself

T

Tony Grinham

Himself

A

Adrian Kerridge

Himself

Jess Conrad

Himself

Jonathan King

Himself

R

Roger LaVern

Himself (archive footage)

John Leyton

Himself

Humphrey Lyttelton

Himself

A

Arthur Meek

Himself

E

Eric Meek

Himself

M

Mickie Most

Himself

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