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The Tornados

The Tornados were a British instrumental rock group formed in 1961 by producer Joe Meek at his Holloway Road studio. Meek created the line‑up to back his artists, notably Billy Fury, and the band adopted the name the Tornados from a lyric in a John Leyton single. Their first single was "Love and Fury" (1962), but the breakthrough came with the track "Telstar" (1962), which reached Number 1 in the United Kingdom and the United States. The same year, they released the album The Original Telstar – The Sounds of the Tornados. Frequent lineup changes followed. The group disbanded in 1...