JOE MEEK I Hear A New World

**** (FOUR STARS) "A surefire addition to the libraries of all Meek obsessives" -- Shindig! MagazineHe was the strangest person in the history of popular music.The story of his life is like an anthology of ultra-creepy, outlandish urban legends, but as his protégé Glenda Collins would sing in one of his productions, “It’s hard to believe it, but it’s true!”His story is by turns, hilarious, heartbreaking and horrifying.He is the father and eternal king of home recording. Beginning in the late 1950s, employing his own mysterious devices and methods to produce otherworldly pop records, he was technically advanced years and even decades ahead of his contemporaries.Between 1957 and 1966 he produced 21 top forty British hits.He produced and composed “Telstar”, the first British record recorded by a rock band to become #1 in the states. It went on to become the biggest selling instrumental of all time.He produced “Have I the Right?”, an international Merseybeat hit that predicted the sitar-based sounds of psychedelia.He produced the first ever Top 20 Jazz hit in England.…and he recorded it all in his apartment!He is the legendary Joe Meek, and he heard a new world. Read more