The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 8, 1991

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Music, Documentary, TV Movie

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

Production Companies

BBC Arena

Director

Alan Lewens

Description

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.