Telstar (song) - Other Uses

Other Uses

• A number of football teams, such as East Fife and Telstar walk out on to the field of play to this song.

• The former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher named "Telstar" as one of her favourite pop songs.

• The WFMU Radio Show Seven Second Delay used this song as a theme song. It was picked by a listener who won a contest to pick the theme song during one of WFMU's pledge drives in 2001. They used it as a theme for one year, up through early 2002.

• The song and the life of its composer Joe Meek, was the basis of Nick Moran's directing debut in the 2008 film Telstar.