7) The instrumental Telstar (1962) was intended to evoke the dawn of the space age and captured the zetigiest of the new youth culture, going to number one on both sides of the Atlantic. A popular story at the time of the record's release was that the weird distortions and background noise came from sending the signal up to the Telstar satellite and re-recording it back on Earth. It is more likely that the effects were created in Joe Meek's recording studio, which was a small flat above a shop in north London.