Wrote and recorded in 1962 (in his flat) the first UK single to get to number one in the US while being tone deaf when independant recordings were not welcome. He was one of (if not the) first independant studios in the UK.
After a seance he predicted the date of Buddy Hollys death. It's universally understood that Joe went to a gig and passed on a warning. Joe was wrong though, Buddy Holly died the same day as predicted but the next year.
After this he used to take tape recorders to the graveyard to record the sounds of the dead.
After Joe sold millions from his flat, his kick drum sound was much researched and much expence was spaired in finding his kick sound. The sound was made my joe asking the drummer not to play the kick and joe made the kick sound by stamping in the bath in the bathroom while holding a bbc mic.
Joe complained that he was being bugged by other producers, It recently came to light that he was right to be paranoid since an assistant did find a bug but didnt want to say so because it would have got him fired. Details uncovered from the freedom of information act have confirmed it.
After a long copyright case fighting for the rights to telstar. He lost his mind and shot his landlady and himself in a fit of depression. The issue was resolved in Meek's favour just three weeks after his death in 1967.
But fuck what a story.
In the time before he lost his mind he recorded "I hear a new world" full of pitch shifting, reverse effects massive compression and one of the first examples of stereo sound. Written in 1959. Released in 1960.
"Telstar" was a film made about him.
After a seance he predicted the date of Buddy Hollys death. It's universally understood that Joe went to a gig and passed on a warning. Joe was wrong though, Buddy Holly died the same day as predicted but the next year.
After this he used to take tape recorders to the graveyard to record the sounds of the dead.
After Joe sold millions from his flat, his kick drum sound was much researched and much expence was spaired in finding his kick sound. The sound was made my joe asking the drummer not to play the kick and joe made the kick sound by stamping in the bath in the bathroom while holding a bbc mic.
Joe complained that he was being bugged by other producers, It recently came to light that he was right to be paranoid since an assistant did find a bug but didnt want to say so because it would have got him fired. Details uncovered from the freedom of information act have confirmed it.
After a long copyright case fighting for the rights to telstar. He lost his mind and shot his landlady and himself in a fit of depression. The issue was resolved in Meek's favour just three weeks after his death in 1967.
But fuck what a story.
In the time before he lost his mind he recorded "I hear a new world" full of pitch shifting, reverse effects massive compression and one of the first examples of stereo sound. Written in 1959. Released in 1960.
"Telstar" was a film made about him.
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