One of Britain's most intriguing and contentious pop figures, Joe Meek was a
groundbreaking, unconventional and ultimately tragic songwriter and producer who
masterminded a series of major 1960s hits and was the subject of a movie in
2009. Beginning his career as an audio engineer for a radio production company
that created shows for Radio Luxembourg, Meek's inventive engineering techniques
on records like Humphrey Lyttelton's Bad Penny Blues soon turned heads. In 1960
he founded Triumph Records with William Barrington-Coupe and then the production
company RGM Sound and achieved ...