Monday 12th June: The Music, Magic and Madness of Joe Meek, a talk by John Repsch
Joe Meek was the British pop producer who dabbled in the occult and wrote innovative, chart-topping songs about séances, satellites and aliens.
Writer and environmentalist John Repsch wrote the biography of Joe Meek in 1989. Bizarre and fascinating though Meek’s life story was, Repsch had to publish it himself. The book has since spawned a BBC 2 ‘Arena’ documentary, an avalanche of CDs and is scheduled to be made into a film this year starring Rhys Ifans.
South East London Folklore Society (SELFS) meet every second Monday of the month upstairs at The Spanish Galleon, 48 Greenwich Church Street, SE10 9BL.