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(56,912 posts) Mon Jan 7, 2013, 09:30 PM Jan 2013

The Tornados - Telstar

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The Tornados - Telstar (Original Post) Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 OP

Sounds better than 90% of the top 40 now. At least they didn't have to go thru autotune. BlueJazz Jan 2013 #1

In your face Sputnik! RedCloud Jan 2013 #2

dude that wrote the song led an *interesting* life - Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #3

Great memory...now can we hear Lonely Bull? HereSince1628 Jan 2013 #4

The Ventures or Herb Alpert? Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #5

That'll trip boomers back to pre-Vietnam! HereSince1628 Jan 2013 #6

nothing wrong with a little trip down memory lane Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #7

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

1. Sounds better than 90% of the top 40 now. At least they didn't have to go thru autotune.

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 09:45 PM

Jan 2013

...and they actually played an instrument...
Not usually my thing..but the bridge is rather nice...

RedCloud

(9,230 posts)

2. In your face Sputnik!

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 12:25 PM

Jan 2013

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

3. dude that wrote the song led an *interesting* life -

Reply to RedCloud (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 12:30 PM

Jan 2013

In the early 1960s self-taught electronics whizz Joe Meek amazingly produces a string of home made hit singles from his studio in his flat above a leather shop in London. His biggest success is the instrumental 'Telstar' but accusations of plagiarism delay royalties. Joe's mercurial temper causes his artists to forsake him for other labels,in particular his young lover Heinz Burt. Now in debt and after unwisely parting from his chief financier Major Banks,Joe finds himself unable to control his life. Increasingly paranoid,believing he is being bugged by rival record companies and that everybody is out to get him,the last straw comes when landlady Violet tells him she is selling the building in which he lives. Joe had once confiscated a shotgun from Heinz. Now it is dangerously close at hand and about to end the Joe Meek story.

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