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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1929-04-05
- Active to
- 1967-02-03
freakbeatpoprock & rollspace age pop
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Joe Meek (1929-1967) was an incredibly imaginative and progressive independent record producer and songwriter. Despite being tone-deaf and not being able to play a musical instrument or write notation, Meek displayed a remarkable facility for writing and producing successful commercial recordings. In writing songs he was reliant on musicians such as Dave Adams, Geoff Goddard or Charles Blackwell to transcribe melodies and chord-progressions from his "demos". He worked on 245 singles, of which 45
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Newent
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- record producer
- Employer
- Pye Records
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Ivor Novello Awards
- Genre
- beat music
- Military branch
- Royal Air Force
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- Joe Meek
- date of birth
- 1929-04-05
- date of death
- 1967-02-03
- manner of death
- Suicide
- place of burial
- Gloucestershire
- birth name
- Robert George Meek
- name in native language
- Joe Meek
- start of work period
- 1954-00-00
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Joe Meek, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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