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"Telstar" is a 1962 instrumental by the English band the Tornados, written and produced by Joe Meek. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1962 (the second British recording to reach number one on that chart in the year, after "Stranger on the Shore" in May). It was the second instrumental single ...
The Tornados made a scopitone film (an early form of music video) for "Telstar" and another for their chart hit "Robot" featuring members of the group walking around a woodland dressed in appropriate headgear with their guitars, flirting with various young women and being finally arrested by policemen after lighting a campfire.
The film tells the story of record producer Joe Meek, the songwriter-producer behind the 1960s hits "Have I the Right?", "Just Like Eddie" and "Johnny Remember Me".The film charts Meek's initial success with the multi-million-selling record "Telstar"; his homosexuality, which was illegal in the UK at the time; and his struggles with debt, paranoia and depression, which culminated in the ...
Robert George "Joe" Meek (5 April 1929 – 3 February 1967) [5] was an English record producer and songwriter considered one of the most influential sound engineers of all time, being one of the first to develop ideas such as the recording studio as an instrument, and becoming one of the first producers to be recognised for his individual identity as an artist.
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His production of the Tornados' hit instrumental "Telstar" (1962) features the clavioline or perhaps a Univox, [7] as does the B-side of that single, "Jungle Fever". [1] Author Mark Brend states that, while the exact instrument used has long been open to debate, "there remains a very faint possibility that Meek used a Univox on 'Telstar,' mixed ...
"Telstar" (instrumental), a 1962 number 1 hit by the Tornados; Telstar: The Joe Meek Story, a 2009 feature film about the life of Joe Meek, starring Con O'Neill and Kevin Spacey; Telstar (game console), a video game console series released by Coleco; The Telstars, a Swedish pop-jazz group founded by Marcus Österdahl
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1962 films. It includes 1962 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for musical films released in the year 1962 .