The Tornados

Tornados is a British instrumental group of the 1960s who acted as the in-house back-up group for many of Joe Meek's productions. They also enjoyed several chart hits in their own right including "Globetrotter" and the number one hit "Telstar", and for a time were considered serious rivals to The Shadows. However the original group began to fall apart when bassist Heinz Burt left for a solo career, and by 1965 none of the original line-up remained.