Telstar Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/telstar/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 23:03:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Telstar Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/telstar/ 32 32 Joe Meek Biopic Gets Some Darkness And A Libertine https://staging2.theplaylist.net/joe-meek-biopic-gets-some-darkness-and-20070920/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/joe-meek-biopic-gets-some-darkness-and-20070920/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:41:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=11877 Are ex-Darkness singer Justin Hawkins and ex-Libertine / current Dirty Pretty Things found Carl Barat going to appear in the music biopic of legendary British freakbeat producer Joe Meek? [ed. a Playlist favorite]

Sure looks that way. According to British site Digital Spy, the film is called “Telstar” (named after Meek’s most famously produced hits by the Tornadoes) and the aforementioned rockers will play the roles of Alice Cooper-like rocker Screaming Lord Sutch and American rock pioneer Gene Vincent in the movie about the life of the famously tone-deaf, closeted and thoroughly kooky music producer.

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