Over the Rainbow quick sound check, roll tape, and the first thing he does is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.' He played and sang, one take, and it was over." Eva Cassidy recorded a version of the song for "The Other Side" (1992). After her death in 1996, it was included on the posthumous compilation "Songbird" (1998) and released as a single in 2001. It debuted at number 88 on the UK Singles Chart in February 2001 and climbed to number 42 in May, becoming Cassidy's first single to chart in the United Kingdom. In Scotland, it reached number 36, giving Cassidy her first
A Life in the Death of Joe Meek struggle with debt, paranoia and depression, he killed his landlady Violet Shenton and shot himself on 3 February 1967. The documentary was shown as a work-in-progress on the opening night of the 2008 Sensoria Music & Film Festival in Sheffield, on 12 April 2008. Later in 2008 it was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival and the Raindance Film Festival in London. A North American premiere of the film opened the Chattanooga Film Festival on 3 April 2014. The documentary contains over 60 interviews with Meek's family, close friends, associates, musicians and pop culture movers and shakers. A Life in