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THE RELEASE OF TELSTAR (320kbs-m4a/61mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th March 2019
Stuart Maconie looks back at another momentous event in pop music, the release of Joe Meek's Telstar. An incredibly futuristic-sounding pop single, it marked the launch of the Russian satellite (which, in itself, had rocked the western world). It pre-empted Kraftwerk, the Human League, Pet Shop Boys et al by decades and pointed a new way forward for pop.
First broadcast on Radio 2 in 2004.
The Tornados - Telstar [Castle Pulse]
Humphrey Lyttelton - Bad Penny Blues [EMI]
Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away [Connoisseur Collection]
Michael Cox - Angela Jones
The Blue Men - I Hear A New World
John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me
Mike Berry - Tribute To Buddy Holly
The Tornados - Telstar [Old Gold]
Jenny Moss - Hobbies [Sanctuary]
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 27th October 2016
Tom Robinson concludes the sad story of the extraordinary British record producer Joe Meek, whose hits included Telstar by The Tornadoes.
Born Robert George Meek on 5 April 1929 in Newent, Gloucestershire, Joe became Britain's premier independent record producer in the early 60s, as renowned for his pioneering recording techniques and eccentric personality as for the futuristic sounds he created.
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th October 2016
Tom Robinson tells the story of the extraordinary British record producer Joe Meek, whose hits included Telstar by The Tornadoes.
Born Robert George Meek on 5 April 1929 in Newent, Gloucestershire, Joe became Britain's premier independent record producer in the early 60s, as renowned for his pioneering recording techniques and eccentric personality as for the futuristic sounds he created.
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th October 2016
Tom Robinson tells the story of the extraordinary British record producer Joe Meek, whose hits included Telstar by The Tornadoes.
Born Robert George Meek on 5th April 1929 in Newent, Gloucestershire, Joe became Britain's premier independent record producer in the early 60s, as renowned for his pioneering recording techniques and eccentric personality as for the futuristic sounds he created.