cut up body found dumped in two suitcases

                                                                

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"Dunno how to gracefully segue into John Repsch's The Legendary Joe Meek,except to say that Joe was not from California and you won't find a reference to him in Art Fein's L.A. guide,either.At any rate,this painstaking bio attempts to unravel the career of the enigmatic,psychotic,out-of-his-gourd maniac (and I mean that in the nicest way) genius best known for the fabulous Telstar and for the bizarre (and uncalled for) speeding up of Honeycombs records.What had me glued to the book,however, were the twisted Norman Bates-ish psycho/seance/spookerama tales - Joe as a grown up sissy boy (Mum tried raising Joe as a little girl,keeping him in party dresses and hair ribbons,til family complained),Joe's premonitions of his idol Buddy Holly's death & his subsequent paranormal contact with Holly's spirit,his obsession with death,sex & violence,his wacky infatuation with Heinz Burt of the Tornadoes,his paranoia,the satanic voices in his head,an unsolved torso murder(!) and his ultimate murder/suicide,which remains shrouded with mystery to this day.The stories behind Meek's broodingly ethereal instrumentals and slavishly psychological productions become obvious with this probe into what could easily have been a best-selling thriller or a knuckle-whitening movie of the week.A prize read for all ambulance chasin' music lubbers"-Kicks #7