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PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Totaling over 4,000 hours of music, they contain previously unheard songs by Billy Fury, Tom Jones and David Bowie's first band, the Konrads, as well as forgotten 60s stars as the Honeycombs, John Leyton and Heinz, all of whom had UK No 1s with Meek. Hey who wants to hear a new world? One can only hope that some selfish don't-touch-my-records,-man completist jerkoff doesn't get 'em...... But let's...
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 12/21/2007
TIS the season for cheesy compilations and any old excuse to foist Chris De Burgh's A Spaceman Came Travelling on the public once again.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/07/2007
At long last a film is being made of the life ? and tragic death ? of one this country's most ground-breaking and bewildering music-makers, Joe Meek. Though best known for writing and recording the pioneering synthesised tune "Telstar", the first UK-produced No1 on both sides of the Atlantic, this biopic shows that he was more than a creator of novelty hits.