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* [[Space age pop]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nardi|first=Carlo|url=https://www.arpjournal.com/asarpwp/the-cultural-economy-of-sound-reinventing-technology-in-indian-popular-cinema/|title=The Cultural Economy Of Sound: Reinventing Technology In Indian Popular Cinema|journal=Journal on the Art of Record Production|issue=5|date=July 2011|access-date=28 November 2019|issn=1754-9892}}</ref>

* [[surf rock]]<ref>{{Cite podcast|url=https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2023/04/americas-60s-and-80s-british-invasions|title=The British Are Charting Edition|website=Hit Parade {{!}} Music History and Music Trivia|publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|last=Molanphy|first=Chris|date=April 14, 2023|access-date=April 29, 2023}}</ref>

* [[rock and roll]]<ref name="Number Ones 2022">{{cite book|last= Breihan|first= Tom|chapter= The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations|date= November 15, 2022|title= The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music|publisher=[[Hachette Book Group]]|location= New York|pages= 88}}</ref>

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| isbn= 0-85112-250-7}}</ref> it featured either a [[clavioline]] or the similar [[Jennings Musical Instruments|Jennings]] Univox, both keyboard instruments with distinctive electronic sounds. It was recorded in Meek's studio in a small flat above a shop in [[Holloway Road]], [[North London]]. "Telstar" won an [[Ivor Novello Award]] and is estimated to have sold at least five million copies worldwide.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10149111/Roger-LaVern.html |title=Roger LaVern |newspaper=Telegraph |date= 28 June 2013|access-date=2014-04-05 |location=London}}</ref>

In 2007, [[Tim Wheeler]] of [[Ash (band)|Ash]] wrote that "Telstar" was one of the earliest pop tracks influenced by science fiction, and that "for its time it was so futuristic and it still sounds pretty weird today". He observed the influence of "Telstar" in the 2006 single "[[Knights of Cydonia]]" by [[Muse (band)|Muse]]; Muse's singer and guitarist, [[Matt Bellamy]], is the son of the Tornados' guitarist [[George Bellamy (musician)|George Bellamy]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Wheeler |first=Tim |author-link=Tim Wheeler |date=August 2007 |title=Sci-fi rocks |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |page=117}}</ref>

== Lawsuits ==

[[France|French]] composer Jean Ledrut accused Joe Meek of [[plagiarism]], claiming that the tune of "Telstar" had been copied from "La Marche d'Austerlitz", a piece from a score that Ledrut had written for the film ''[[Austerlitz (1960 film)|Austerlitz]]'' (1960). This led to a [[lawsuit]] that prevented Meek from receiving [[royalties]] from the record during his lifetime, and the issue was notonly resolved, in Meek's favour until, three weeks after his suicide in 1967. ''Austerlitz'' was not released in the UK until 1965, and Meek was unaware of the film when the lawsuit was filed in March 1963.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053638/ |title=''Austerlitz'' (1960) |publisher=IMDb.com |access-date=2014-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.joemeekpage.info/essay_07_E.htm |title=The JOE MEEK Page &#124; Joe Meek: A Portrait - 7. The cases Telstar, Heinz, Madras Place, Howard/Blaikley |website=Joemeekpage.info |access-date=2014-04-05}}</ref>

==Commercial performance==

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| pages= 142–3}}</ref> and in the American charts for 16 weeks. "Telstar" was the first U.S. number one by a British group. UpPrior to that pointthis, and since [[World War II]], there had only been three British namessolo thatartists toppedhad theachieved a U.S. chartnumber one: the first was "[[Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart]]" by [[Vera Lynn]] (1952); the second was "[[He's Got the Whole World in His Hands]]" by [[Laurie London]] (1958); and the third was in May 1962 with "[[Stranger on the Shore]]" by [[clarinetist]] [[Acker Bilk]] (May 1962).

==Track listing==

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== See also ==

* [[List of Billboard Hot 100 number-ones by British artists|List of ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number-ones by British artists]]

* [[Early Bird (André Brasseur song)|"Early Bird"]], 1965 instrumental named after [[Intelsat I]]

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