Halliwell was seven years older than Orton and of independent means, having a
RADA in 1951 and moved into a flat with him and began a writing partnership. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amusedĪudiences with his scandalous black comedies. Public career was short but prolific, lasting from 1964 until his death three Joe Orton (34) was an English playwright and author. Survived by her husband and her daughter. Meek receded into the control room, disappeared from Pink's sight and reloaded.Ī few seconds later Joe Meek turned the shotgun on himself. Shenton fell down the stairs and landed in front of Pink's feet. When sheĪrrived at the studio, Meek picked up a quarrel with her, as short-tempered as There's no reason to believe that taking her life was a planned act. Usually the two of them were on good terms, so Some recordings he had made with Pink the evening before. For a while Meek messed around in the control room with Goodbye." Pink, however, didn't understand Letters and other documents in the bathtub and finally handed a note to Pink In his studio with his studio assistant Patrick Pink. In the morning of Friday, February 3, 1967, Joe Meek, was The hits had dried up and Meek's depression deepened. He had been convicted of "importuning for immoral purposes" in 1963Īnd fined £15. Homosexuality (illegal in the UK at the time) put him under further pressure Receiving an apparently innocent phone call from Phil Spector, Meek immediatelyĪccused Spector of stealing his ideas before hanging up angrily. In order to steal his ideas), drug use and attacks of rage or depression.
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His professional efforts were often hindered by his paranoia (Meek wasĬonvinced that Decca Records would put hidden microphones behind his wallpaper With Buddy Holly claiming the late American rocker had communicated with him inĭreams. Vain attempt to record voices from beyond the grave, particular he had an obsession He would set up tape machines in graveyards in a Meek became obsessed with the occult and the idea of His best-remembered hit is the Tornados' "Telstar" His commercial success as a producer was short-lived, and Meek gradually sank Property was rented by Joe Meek who was a pioneering English record producerĪnd songwriter. Violet Shenton ( 1911-1967) Violet Shenton (56) was the Landlady at 304 Holloway Road, London.
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