The Real Story Behind Britain's Rock 'N' Roll Pirates

The Real Story Behind Britain's Rock 'N' Roll Pirates - NPR

In the '60s, the British airwaves were largely controlled by the BBC — which had all but barred rock 'n' roll from the radio.

How Pirate Radio Ships Paved the Way for Britain's Rock 'n' Roll ...

The British pop invasion that took over American airwaves in the 1960s might never have happened, had it not been for a radio revolution in ...

The True, Considerably Less Rocking Story Behind "Pirate Radio"

Real pirate radio stations weren't particularly rock focused. For those who lived during this period, the film's fictional Radio Rock is bound ...

Pirate radio in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

Pirate radio in the United Kingdom has been a popular and enduring radio medium since the 1960s, despite expansions in licensed broadcasting, and the advent ...

How Pirate Radio Rocked the 1960s Airwaves and Still Exists Today

The plot is based loosely on the saga of an actual former pirate station, Radio Caroline, that was founded by an offbeat Irish entrepreneur ...

Remembering The Legendary Radio Caroline - Mind Smoke Records

At that time I was living the life of an Army brat in Verdun, France and had gotten hooked on rock & roll. Fortune smiled on me when my Dad decided to take the ...

Ahoy, Pirate Radio - Focus Features

In Richard Curtis' comedy Pirate Radio, rock 'n' roll in Britain was beamed from ships illegally transmitting in the 1960s. But there's more than meets the ear ...

Culture Re-View: How pirate radio stations changed the ... - Euronews

On this day, authorities boarded Caroline, the pirate radio ship illegally broadcasting rock music to the British public ... and rock n' roll ...

On My Radio: The Pirates That Would Change Dance Culture Forever

Stacks of 45s rocked back and forth, as the needle and groove barreled into “Not Fade Away” by The Rolling Stones, the first song U.K pirate show Radio Caroline ...

Part 1: The Pirates - BBC

For many, the arrival of pirates around the shores of Britain in the mid-1960s meant liberation from the tyranny of postwar mundanity.

How accurate did the movie 'Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked ...

The guy Bill Nighy played in real life had the same name as me and became the (legitimate) owner of one of the UK's first commercial stations.

This Underrated Richard Curtis Comedy Is One of His Best - Collider

'Pirate Radio' Is Based Upon a True Story of Rock 'n Roll Rebellion ... During the boom of the British Invasion in the mid '60s, bands like The ...

The Boat That Rocked - Wikipedia

Set in 1966, it tells the story of the fictional pirate radio station "Radio Rock" and its crew of eclectic disc jockeys.

The Peculiar Silence of the “Boat that rocked” - zeitgeschichte | online

The film sets its fictional stage by stating two supposed historical 'facts' about the pirates´ challenge to public service broadcasting: the ...

Pirate Radio - Twenty Thousand Hertz

In the 1960s, the BBC had a vise grip on British radio, and rarely played the pop and rock music that was all the rage.

August 14 1967, midnight: showdown for the pop pirates

... rock and roll shows hosted by disc jockeys. The early tape ... behind the proverbial curtain where you could discover the real story?

Nonfiction Review: “Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making ...

Johns starts his book with one of the strangest, bloodiest and most piratical of moments in British pirate radio: the killing of one of Britain's leading radio ...

History Of DJ - Part 6 - Pirate Radio (Part 1 - Pirate Ships) - YouTube

... PIRATE SHIPS (Part 1) The 6th episode in our series The History of DJ arrives at the PIRATE RADIO period in the 'Swinging 60's.' Featuring ...

Pirate radio stations: Check out their history *list* - Red Bull

Nightclub owner and music manager Ronan O'Rahilly was frustrated by the hold that major record labels and other organisations had over BBC radio ...

The Boat That Rocked: sex, rock n' roll, and an awful lot of hope

The Boat That Rocked — known in some countries as Pirate Radio, or The Radio Wave, or another one in a slew of varying dumbed-down versions ...