- Heinz Burt was born on July 24, 1942 in Germany. He was an actor, known for Inherent Vice (2014), Kings of the Road (1976) and Non-Fiction (2018). He died on April 7, 2000 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Better known merely as "Heinz", protégé of pioneering record producer Joe Meek, and bass player with The Tornadoes. In 1962 the group recorded "Telstar", an instrumental inspired by the communications satellite. It became a #1 hit on both sides of the Atlantic, the first UK record to make it to the top in the US.
- Had a solo hit in 1963 with "Just Like Eddie", a tribute to Eddie Cochrane.
- The shotgun with which producer Joe Meek took his own life and that of his landlady in 1967 belonged to Heinz.
- Revealed via the Tony Blackburn , Sounds of the 60's broadcast, 18th March 2017, the comparative rhythmical similarity of a 1963 song 'Just like Eddie', by Heinz Burt, to the performance within Club Dread (2004) by the late Bill Paxton.
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