The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek
1991Documentary 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.
Acted in
Joe Meek
as Himself (archive footage)
Pete Murray
as Narrator
Lonnie Donegan
as Himself
Andrew Crawford
as Newsreader (voice)
George Bellamy
as Himself (with The Tornados) (archive footage)
June Barrie
as Joe Meek's Mother (voice)
Heinz Burt
as Himself
Chad Carson
as Himself
Clem Cattini
as Himself
Geoff Goddard
as Himself
Tony Grinham
as Himself
Adrian Kerridge
as Himself
Jess Conrad
as Himself
Jonathan King
as Himself
Roger LaVern
as Himself (archive footage)
John Leyton
as Himself
Humphrey Lyttelton
as Himself
Arthur Meek
as Himself
Eric Meek
as Himself
Mickie Most
as Himself
Patrick Pink
as Himself
David Sutch
as Himself