associated_acts death_date years_active birth_place name background birth_date genre article_title birth_name occupation
joe meek 15 may 2000 1960s reading , berkshire , england geoff goddard non_performing_personnel 19 november 1937 pop music geoff goddard
 geoffrey goddard songwriter , singer , musician
geoff goddard

geoff goddard -lrb- 19 november 1937 -- 15 may 2000 -rrb- was an english songwriter , singer and instrumentalist .
working for joe meek in the early 1960s , he wrote songs for heinz , mike berry , gerry temple , the tornados , kenny hollywood , the outlaws , freddie starr , screaming lord sutch , the ramblers and john leyton .
his song for leyton , `` johnny remember me '' , reached number 1 in the uk singles chart .
by the mid-1960s he had fallen out with meek .
disillusioned with the music industry , he withdrew from it to work in catering .
