@reverend @soulexpress The following paragraph is from "Shake It Up Baby! Notes from a British pop music reporter 1961-1972" (2016), a memoir written by journalist Norman Jopling (a great read, by the way!):

"While in Britain [in 1964], Phil expressed an interest in meeting Joe Meek, who could be loosely called his British equivalent. Meek refused to see Phil - typically, in case Phil stole his "secrets". Years later, shortly before blowing his own brains out with a shotgun in 1967 after killing his landlady, Meek expressed regret that he hadn't taken that opportunity to meet Phil. He'd since realised that they were birds of a feather."

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