Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story is a 2008 film adaptation of James Hicks' and Nick Moran's play Telstar, about record producer Joe Meek, which opened at the New Ambassadors Theatre in London’s West End in June 2005. The film tells the story of record producer Joe Meek, the songwriter-producer behind the 1960s hits "Have I the Right?", "Just Like Eddie" and "Johnny Remember Me". The film charts Meek's initial success with the multi-million selling record, "Telstar", his homosexuality which was illegal in the UK at the time, and his struggles with debt, paranoia and depression, which culminated in the killing of his landlady Violet Shenton and himself, on 3 February 1967.

Links To Peel
David Hayler played Peel in the film as a radio broadcaster and a journalist for the NME in 1963. In reality Peel was not a journalist in 1963, he was working in America as a radio broadcaster and used his original surname Ravenscroft.