- Born
- Died
- Birth nameRobert George Meek
- Height5′ 11″ (1.81 m)
- Joe Meek was born on April 5, 1929 in Newent, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), Fresh (2022) and The Rum Diary (2011). He died on February 3, 1967 in London, England, UK.
- Meek took a single-barrelled shotgun from under his bed at the studio he'd built in a flat above a leather goods shop at 304 Holloway Road in north London and, following a heated argument, shot and killed his landlady Violet Shenton, before turning the gun on himself.
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