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At the Cinema | Telstar – Strange but true: the story of pop maverick Joe Meek

The story of pop music maverick Joe Meek is so bizarre you couldn’t make it up – though Joe Orton might have tried. Making his directorial debut with Telstar, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels actor Nick Moran sticks closely … Continue reading

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The Buddy Holly Story and other days the music died

Couch Potato Pickings On BBC4 tonight at 10.05pm Tonight’s biopic of 1950s rock ‘n’ roll legend Buddy Holly is not only entertaining and exciting but it features  brilliant performances from Gary Busey, Don Stroud and Charles Martin Smith as Holly … Continue reading

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