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Love and Fury: The Life, Death and Legacy of Joe Meek
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Published June 17, 2025
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September 14, 2025
Here is my review of this fantastic Joe Meek biography. Read it here:
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April 28, 2025
Long overdue reassessment of Joe Meek’s life and work.
This is a beautifully produced book with some previously unseen photos of young Joe. I loved the inside cover detail with the row of multicoloured boxes containing Joe’s legendary tea chest tapes.
‘Love and Fury’ exhaustively catalogs Meek’s recording career and the many singers and musicians he worked with.
The author sensitively discusses Joe’s sexuality and mental health which was welcome after years of sensationalism in previous media. Like others before him, the author suggests that Joe was displaying signs of manic depression (now bipolar disorder) near the end of his life, but sadly no one seems ready for the conversation about Joe very obviously (to me anyway) being on the autism spectrum. I would love to have read about that.
My late husband was very close to Joe, so I did notice a few factual errors, but these don’t take away from the book itself. Overall, an excellent read about music’s most fascinating producer.
(4.5 stars)
This is a beautifully produced book with some previously unseen photos of young Joe. I loved the inside cover detail with the row of multicoloured boxes containing Joe’s legendary tea chest tapes.
‘Love and Fury’ exhaustively catalogs Meek’s recording career and the many singers and musicians he worked with.
The author sensitively discusses Joe’s sexuality and mental health which was welcome after years of sensationalism in previous media. Like others before him, the author suggests that Joe was displaying signs of manic depression (now bipolar disorder) near the end of his life, but sadly no one seems ready for the conversation about Joe very obviously (to me anyway) being on the autism spectrum. I would love to have read about that.
My late husband was very close to Joe, so I did notice a few factual errors, but these don’t take away from the book itself. Overall, an excellent read about music’s most fascinating producer.
(4.5 stars)
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