1962 - From Taboo To Telstar 3CD

Joe Meek
1962 - From Taboo To Telstar - Hits Misses Outtakes Demos and More 3CD set

An in-depth exploration of Joe Meek’s 1962 work, culminating in the global hit ‘Telstar’, and featuring John Leyton, The Tornados, Mike Berry, The Outlaws, Michael Cox, Geoff Goddard, Ray Dexter and more.
This set includes 52 previously unheard recordings – stereo versions, alternate takes and mixes, demos and previously unreleased songs, with a detailed chronology, sleevenotes and tea chest tape notes.
From Taboo To Telstar is the first in a series of chronological sets charting work at Meek’s studio year-by-year.
Featuring singles and B-sides (many heard in stereo for the first time), alongside alternate versions, demos and tracks recorded but unreleased, this is a window into the incredible creativity enabled by one man and his vision of independence and experimentation.
A must for fans of meek and his artists, as well as historians of british music, students of the 1960s and anybody who harks back to that simpler, pre-fab black and white world.