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A Plaque Tribute to the late record producer |
Sound move... Film sparks new calls for Meek tribute
BLINK and you would miss the small black plaque to legendary record producer Joe Meek on the wall above a Continental grocers a few doors down from Holloway Road Tube station.
The new film about Meek’s life, Telstar – out today (Friday) – has resurrected a new campaign to get the 1960s musical genius further recognition in Islington, the borough where he lived and died.
Labour councillor Wally Burgess went to the record producer’s former home, the flat at 304 Holloway Road, yesterday to find out who lives there now. The premises appeared to be empty.
“Joe turned a room into a makeshift studio to record some of the greatest songs of the 1960s,” said Mr Burgess. “Why not turn a room at his old flat into a replica of that bathroom studio?”
Meanwhile, tonight Joe Meek-inspired band The Honeycombs will make an emotional return to Islington after almost 50 years.
The pop group were at No 1 in 28 countries in 1964 with Have I The Right?, recorded by Meek in his flat at Holloway Road.
The band will play at a special screening of the new film at Holloway Odeon.
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