Joe Meek Monday!
Look at this wet little guy, oh my god he is so stinking cute! I can’t even😭 Did you know that Joe’s reputation of being a reclusive "inside boy" who would rather watch horror/sci-fi movies or paint than doing any physical activities, is only partially true? While he did as a kid tinker on electronic devises alone in a garden shed for hours on end, he still had a fair number of friends. And as a teenager Joe started what we would today effectively call DJing at parties (which apparently made him quite popular with the young local ladies…. oh girlies no😭, you’re wasting your energy) & to direct plays with other kids (which he allegedly more often then not wore dresses for). Apparently he also really liked & was quiet a strong swimmer.
(And as an adult he actually also was quiet social esp. in the queer community when he first moved to London, regularly visiting underground gay clubs, going cruising even more frequently (& in general allegedly being quiet direct when flirting as opposed to his usual relatively shy personality), throwing parties at his & his boyfriends slightly run-down victorian Notting Hill flat, & acquiring a reputation amongst other young queers that had fled to the capitol for helping out with money without expecting certain favours in return a lot of other (mostly older rich) gay men did. It was only five years later after he was arrested for being gay & publicly outed that he became more guarded and “unsocial”.)
