Telstar

This had forced them to take "the difficult decision" to close the show early. O'Neill played record producer Joe Meek in Telstar on the West End stage and on film. Prick Up Your Ears also stars Chris New, as Orton, and veteran...

In this article: Con O'Neill, Joe Orton, Matt Lucas, Prick Up Your Ears, and John Lahr

...e-mailer informs me that Muse singer Matthew Bellamy is the son of George Bellamy, who played guitar in the 1960s band the Tornados, a group whose smash-hit "Telstar" was a favorite song of - I'm not making this up, either! - Margaret Thatcher.

In this article: George Bellamy, Matthew Bellamy, Margaret Thatcher, and Muse

Nick Moran's Telstar is a terrific portrayal of the life of flamboyant pop producer Joe Meek. Rating: * * * * In the 15 years that actor-turned-director Nick Moran spent bringing Telstar to the screen, he'd tell people: "It's about a gay,...

In this article: Joe Meek, Nick Moran, Heinz, Allegation, Business partner, Screaming Lord Sutch, and Con O'Neill

...finales in recent memory. The song was featured in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The song's guitar element was inspired by "Telstar," a 1962 song by The Tornados, of which Matt Bellamy's father was a member. The bassline, Bellamy...

In this article: Muse, Matthew Bellamy, Hysteria, Plug In Baby, Black Holes & Revelations, The Resistance, Supermassive Black Hole, Stockholm Syndrome, Starlight, and Uprising

Once you have downloaded the crossword, you don't have to be online to complete it. 3 Actor who portrayed Joe Meek in the 2008 film Telstar (3,6) 8 and 20 Down 1969 film starring John Wayne and Glen Campbell (4,4) 9 Another name...

In this article: Spanish Civil War, Tarragon, The Three Musketeers, Stephen King, Joe Meek, Jordana Brewster, Josh Hartnett, John Wayne, and Wesley Snipes

...two floors of No 304. Walking past it daily made me feel that much closer to a serious part of pop history: The Tornados' future-defining Telstar was written and recorded there, and everyone from Rod Stewart to David Bowie and Chas from...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Joe Meek, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Beatles, Fairport Convention, John Lennon, and Surgery

...and Billy Fury, and a few too many tracks by Meek's beloved Heinz - an indication, perhaps, of the film's priorities. Download this: 'Telstar', 'Have I The Right', 'Johnny Remember Me', 'Jack The Ripper', 'Be-Bop-A-Lula', 'Just Like Eddie'

In this article: Joe Meek, Johnny Remember Me, Psychosis, Be-Bop-A-Lula, Just Like Eddie, Jack the Ripper, I Hear a New World, Have I The Right, and John Leyton

...ended up in chokey; the performers, by contrast, seem to have grown old gracefully. The British producer Joe Meek is the subject of Telstar, which is also the title of his only half-decent record - a hit for the Tornados at the turn of the...

In this article: Joe Meek, Heinz, Geoff Goddard, Billy Fury, Eddie Cochran, Phil Spector, Clem Cattini, and Nick Moran

...climax. In 1967, he shot his landlady (a cheerful, simpatica Pam Ferris), then killed himself. But while Telstar drifts towards tragedy, it's mostly angled as farce, in a succession of blustering rages and misbegotten pranks. (Did a...

In this article: Joe Meek, Nick Moran, Telstar, London, Kevin Spacey, Heinz, Baked beans, Delusion, and Johnny Remember Me

...frets about the noise, yet Meek still manages to produce some of the biggest selling records of the period, including the Tornados' Telstar, an otherwordly No1 which could have been recorded by a bottle of musical wasps. Telstar is...

In this article: Joe Meek, Telstar, Nick Moran, Tom Jones, Con O'Neill, Suicide, and Business partner