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Nov 13, 2009 · By Eric Hynes. Nov 13, 200910:22 AM. The film Pirate Radio , which opens in the U.S. on Friday, has a raucous premise: enterprising disc jockeys commission a leaky sea vessel to start a...
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Ex-Beatle George Harrison was sufficiently appreciative of Radio Caroline's mission that he even wrote a sizable check in the early 1970s to help keep the ship in operation, according to Ray Clark's book "Radio Caroline: The True Story of the Ship That Rocked."
Set in 1966, it tells the story of the fictional pirate radio station "Radio Rock" and its crew of eclectic disc jockeys, who broadcast rock and pop music to the United Kingdom from a ship anchored in the North Sea while the British government tries to shut them down.
Nov 13, 2009 · Richard Curtis, director of the new film Pirate Radio, which is based on these events, was an 8-year-old boy confined to a posh boarding school when he first heard the broadcasts. While he...
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Sep 28, 2017 · On March 28, 1964, the pirate radio station made its first broadcast, unsure of who could hear or who was listening. One of the first DJs on Radio Caroline was Tony Blackburn, whose...
Aug 13, 2021 · This is the story of how pirate radio sparked a rock’n’roll revolution in the '60s. John Lennon supposedly once said: “Before Elvis, there was nothing.”
Nov 10, 2009 · But an authority on recent U.K. history says Universal Pictures’ “Pirate Radio,” starring Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, is unlikely to live up to the stranger-than-fiction exploits of...
