A Life in the Death of Joe Meek

The film is produced and directed by Howard S. Berger and Susan Stahman.

His biggest success was the production of the Tornados' 1962 worldwide #1 hit "Telstar".

After a long struggle with debt, paranoia and depression, he killed his landlady Violet Shenton and shot himself on February 3, 1967.

The documentary was shown as a work-in-progress on the opening night of the 2008 Sensoria Music & Film Festival in Sheffield, on April 12, 2008.

[4] The documentary contains over 60 interviews with Meek's family, close friends, associates, musicians and pop culture movers and shakers.