HEINZ The White Tornado -The Holloway Road Sessions 1963-1966 (5-CD Box-Set)

This 5CD set contains an extraordinary wealth of album and single tracks, session recordings, instrumental and backing tracks, alternate versions and demos, and even an interview and live rehearsal recording, all drawn from the band's legendary archive and carefully restored and compiled for your listening pleasure. The material collected on "The White Tornado" can be heard with remarkable clarity and at original speed (though the released versions have often been sped up), shedding new light on Heinz himself as well as the songwriting and production genius that made up his career. It's really no exaggeration to say that Meek was several years ahead of many major commercial studios in terms of the sheer output and recording quality heard throughout.
With annotations by the late Rob Bradford (editor of the Joe Meek Society's Thunderbolt magazine) and curator Richard Anderson, as well as previously unpublished footage and photos of tape boxes, this lavish set is a must-have, not just for fans of Heinz and Joe Meek, but for anyone interested in the history of British pop music and the fine art of studio craft.