The Very Strange Story of the Legendary Joe Meek

Documentary about the influential pop composer and record producer Joe Meek who died in dramatic circumstances in 1967 after a bizarre childhood and a career often controversial which spanned the period from the mid50s to the rise of the Beatles in the 60s At the end of his life he was suffering from paranoid delusions that people were watching him through walls Alan Lewens film charts an Ortonesque tale of postwar Britain