602 The Tornados “Telstar” 1962

“In 1962, we splashed out six shillings and eightpence to buy ‘Telstar’,  a single  by the Tornados. It went to number one and stayed thee for weeks, and became the first British record ever to top the American charts. We bought it because it sounded electronic, like nothing we had heard before…It comes to no surprise to me to learn that Joe Meek, the composer of ‘Telstar’, was tone deaf…He was of an excitable disposition, to put it mildly, and tyrannized the groups with which he worked” (Michael Portillo, New Statesman, 7/11/2005). 

The Tornados “Telstar”