Telstar The Movie

DISAPPOINTING Biopic of Joe Meek,most off the film is historically inaccurate....He is a list of just a few points..
In the film Heinz drives a smallish feminine red Ford Consul Capri Coupe (to make him look more like a poof,which in real life he was not). In reality he drove a big masculine blue Ford Zephyr 6 estate.

Clem cattini was the drummer in the Tornados in the film he has his hair parting on his right hand sideonly woman had there parting on that side in the 60s,look at pictures of Clem cattini and the 2 videos i have of him on my channel,,1958 and 1964 his parting has always been on the left hand side..

Why was John peel in the film...
John Peel didnt even work for the NME or any Music publication.He was in the USA.
At the time of Joe Meek he would have been doing his national Service then after would have been in America working as a DJ in the southern USA...
And John Peel was still using his name John Ravenscroft..

Most of the film is about the relationship between Joe Meek and Heinz..Heinz is port raid as being gay,i guess only Meek and Heinz would know but,even his wife Della Burke and his son Simon Burt have spoke out about there discuss and anger about this...follow this link and read..
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/44490...

Alan Caddy of the Tornados did not play a Hofner- he had a blonde Gibson 335-he played with tissue paper under the strings at the nut to get the special sound.

Heniz is seen miming on Oh Boy,This TV series ended in 1959.It should have been Thank Your Lucky Stars...

In the film there is a scene were Joe Meek is shagging Heinz even the produces of the film i read in a magazine article at the time,admit this is not true,but they said they part this in the film to keep the story going.....

Clem Cattini and Chas Hodges are depicted as being in several Meek groups,whereas they were only ever in the Tornados and the Outlaws,respectively

At the start of the film where Geoff Goddard first enters the Shenton's shop, the film is reversed. The shop name on the glass and the "Open/Closed" sign are back to front.

Mitch Mitchell is threatened with a shotgun by Joe meek in in 1966.Bizarrely,the group are supposedly recording The Night Of The Vampire,an RGM track from 1961....

Joe throws a huge tape recorder out of the window of 304,aimed at the fleeing Clem Cattini in 1965.The year was actually 1962 (when Clem told Joe that he didn't think much of Globetrotter as it sounded like Venus In Blue Jeans) oh and the tape machine was thrown down the stairs of 304,Holloway Road..

When the group are touring in the black van it is quite clearly set in 1963 & yet the registration plate of the van shows the suffix "D" which was issued in the year 1966.

Joe Meek did not reject Tom Jones out of hand,In fact Tom Jones recorded seven excellent tracks at 304,Holloway Road..

Also the film implies that Patrick Pink (Joe's loyal and final studio assistant) was also a poof.This was definitely never the case.It was Terry O'Neil who went on holiday with Joe in 1965...

Goddard was a shy and reserved person. Why Nick Moran's movie "Telstar" from 2008 portrays him as a sort of complete moron is the director's secret; we can be sure that this is strongly exaggerated.

At the end of the film when Joe shot himself he was alone up stairs with his landlady (Mrs Violet Shenton) on the way upstairs not with Patrick Pink,who was down stairs,so Joe did not kiss him Farewell at the end...