Telstar

From a flat above a leather goods store on the Holloway Road, Joe Meek developed new techniques in recording, made groundbreaking hit singles, and became the premier independent pop producer working in Britain during the late-50s and early-60s. The cult of Meek has endured because of the incredible, often otherworldly music he made while he was alive, because of the eccentricities he indulged in creating that music, and because of the more bizarre aspects of his life and death. Nick Moran wrote a dramatisation of Meek’s life for the stage that premiered in 2005, and the play has been developed here for his exceptional directorial debut. Con O’Neill reprises the role of Meek he took on stage, and he gives a tour de force performance as the warped genius, heading a quality cast full of familiar faces and intriguing pop cameos. Funny, touching and suitably strange in parts, bringing this story to the screen has clearly been a labour of love for Moran, and it is the story of the music as much as it is of the man, with those hits such as ‘Johnny Remember Me’, ‘Have I The Right’, ‘Just Like Eddie’ and the indomitable ‘Telstar’ presented to great, stirring effect.
Michael Hayden

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