The White Tornado 5CD Boxed Set

Heinz
The White Tornado - The Holloway Road Sessions (5CD boxed set)

This first extensive CD boxed set from Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes presents 5 discs showcasing Heinz.
Over 130 tracks, including more than 100 previously unreleased recordings!
You'll find album tracks, singles, sessions and outtakes, demos, unreleased songs and more, fully remastered and accompanied by indepth liner notes.
After his tenure in the hugely successful Tornados, Heinz was selected for solo stardom by Joe Meek, who invested more studio time and song writing effort in him than he did in any of his other artists.
Backed by the producer’s crack team of session musicians, and recording material often penned by Meek, Geoff Goddard or Dave Adams, Heinz and his famous bleached blond quiff were propelled into the mid-1960s pop scene, scoring a series of hits and near misses along the way.
This 5CD set brings together an extraordinary wealth recordings, and even an interview and a live rehearsal recording, all taken from the legendary tape archive.
Carefully restored, these recordings are now heard in remarkable sonic clarity, and at their original speed - as the released versions were often sped up.
The material collected on ‘The White Tornado’ sheds new light on both Heinz himself and the songcraft and production genius that went into his career.
It really is no exaggeration to say Meek was several years ahead of many large commercial studios in terms of the sheer power and recording quality.