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The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek (1991)
Directed by Alan Lewens
Music, Documentary, TV Movie · 1h 00m
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.
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
Crew
- Director
- Alan Lewens
- Producer
- Humphrey Burton
Details
- Release date
- 1991-02-08
- Runtime
- 1h 00m
- Genres
- Music, Documentary, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC Arena