The name Joe Meek doesn’t mean much to the casual music listener. But Joe Meek, in one way or another, began changing music as we know it in the 1950s and ‘60s as a revolutionary producer and engineer ...

But at the end of World War II, as Parisians celebrated the liberation of their city from German barbarians, delighted locals filled its streets as church bells rang out from the Mairie de Versailles ...

It happens so rarely, but it does happen. Genuine experimental-music madmen, working as pop-music producers, find sounds that capture the collective imagination, and they take those sounds all the way ...

The energy, craziness and often downright shabbiness of London’s early ’60s, pre-Beatles pop biz are vividly brought to life in “Telstar: The Joe Meek Story,” a biopic of the legendary ...