Do you remember the offshore pirate radio stations broadcasting from ships - Radio Northsea International, London, Scotland, Caroline North and South, Swinging Radio England, Britain Radio, Laser, Atlanta, Veronica, Atlantis, 270, 355, 227? The fort based stations - City, Sutch, Tower, Invicta, King, Essex, BBMS, 390? or maybe the unlicenced land based broadcasters - Jackie, Free London, North London Radio or Kaleidoscope? Or, perhaps you're too young, and don't remember radio before the Marine Offences Act, and wished you could have heard them......... See & Hear them all again at www.pirateradiosales.co.uk
1967 was a CRAZY year in broadcasting. We lost too many pirate radio stations due to some unjustified law. Over here in America, two months prior to Radio London's shutdown, KBLA - Los Angeles pop station at the time - reformated and changed its call letters. They went out just as diligently as Big L did 🫡
Great to hear this but the ship at the beginning of the film is the Queen Fredericia (Caroline North). Johnnie Walker was never on this ship but was on the Mi Amigo (Caroline South.) Queen Fredericia was anchored off the Isle of Man amd Mi Amigo was anchored off the Essex coast.
Who perhaps still knows the former theme tune of Radio Veronica, which was broadcast in the early 70s shortly before 6 a.m.? ... and also sang "Here are Veronica" or something similar. I would be extremely grateful for any information on this!
Veronica, Veronica, Veronica. She thrived with Radio Mercur, one of the earliest pirates(6 years before Caroline), and became the Radio Caroline of the Netherlands, only to end up perishing in the Dutch equivalent of the August 1967 Pirate Radio Incident... ...Pirate Radio never ceases to amaze me.
Rohnan O' Rihley was quit a passionate person especially when it came to the music he promoted selling records and filling concert halls in the UK and here across the pond in the US. RIP Rohnan radio name Simon Dee 1940 - 20 April 2020
Veronica blijft als U dat wilt. We wilden idd allemaal dat Veronica bleef, maar de heren politiekers toendertijd wisten het ook alweer beter...... Vooral niet luisteren naar de mensen en de jeugd, liever met hun eigen persoontje, dat o zo belangrijk is, bezig zijn. Wat deden de zeezenders verkeerd. Niets. Maar de reclame-inkomsten moesten naar de STER en dank zij het verdrag van Straatsburg, konden zij hiervan dankbaar gebruik maken om de zeezenders het zwijgen op te leggen. Onze generatie (°1955) vergeet gelukkig de mooie jaren niet die Veronica (en anderen, maar toch vooral Veronica) ons gegeven hebbben. Na al die jaren is er nog steeds niets veranderd. Politiekers zijn en blijven een bende navelstaarders, die van een gigantische incompetentie getuigen en nog steeds met hun eigen carriere bezig zijn en het vooral leuk vinden om met modder naar elkaar te gooien en zeker en vooral de belangrijke punten in de maatschappij uit het oog verliezen. Veel leuteren en zwetsen, dat wel, maar zaken realiseren.......
51 years ago almost to the second now, at 2355 August 14th 2018 we all remember where we listened to this. Nostalgia indeed.... I listen to this under the bedclothes on holiday in a caravan park in Great Yarmouth when I was 15. Really takes me back like nothing else does ....
Zo kunnen mensen toch nog die oude vertrouwde proramma's blijven beluisteren zonder tussen komst.Hierdoor komen bij onze generatie oude gevoelens weer boven ik wens u allen dan ook veel luistergenot toe.
Radio Caroline has come to london this friday 22/12/17 7:00am - 10:00 am uk time during the breakfast show caroline takes over the former bbc world service london transmitter facility in orfordness replacing big ben on radio 1 648 medium wave the legend returns radio Caroline working long term on obtaining a international shortwave broadcast license to take over the bbc world service north america relay the transmitter has been kept up and maintained along with the aerials the transmitter site will be open to the general public by this spring as a working broadcast history museum same as the Ross Revenge is currently with a gift shop and bbc world service radio 1-4 displays as well as offshore and land based pirate radio. I hope someday to be able to travel across the pond with my mates for a visit on a long holiday Loving awareness continues into the next decade friday the start of Christmas weekend is going to be like easter weekend 1964 on the old Mi Amigo In the North sea.
Boy has that changed starting Friday 22/12/17 you will be hearing Caroline on radio one Caroline has finally came to London 648 medium wave sign on between 7:00 am - 10:00 am uk time easter weekend 1967 all over again Emperor Rosko put together a special sign on mix preview available on his you tube channel cool am shortwave
basted harold wilson and a jealous bbc saw them off best radio stations ever along with the big L and look at the crap we have now, listen to any commercial radio station today and you wont be able to tell them apart
Oh dear... Well, I was 14 in 1967.. We were holidaying in Devon. I listened to Big L non-stop all the way down - knowing I wouldn't be doing it on the way back. Then that awful day. . It was raining, so my Mum, Dad, my brother & I all stayed in & listened to that final day. And then that moment came. . . . 3 o'clock. . . Tears welled-up - just as they are now as I'm typing this at 62yrs old. . . No generation below me could ever understand the passion for a Radio station that we had - still have. And it was my first exposure to politics - I vowed never to vote Labour . I joined the Free Radio Association - I still have the stickers & posters. At school hundreds of us had the FRA badge - which we had to wear under our lapel where it wouldn't be on show - but every now & then we'd flip the lapel to a fellow protester. I have several memorabilia - the disc, the 8mm film&disc and, more recently, cds & DVDs. Alas, the next 10 years will have a devastating effect on that generation of DJs & men like Philip Birch who created our Wonderful Radio London. And after my generation ... what then? . . The memories will die with us. Like the loss of a close friend or pet, it still affects me very deeply.
Just come across this item. I was always listening to Lazer. Best pirate ship going. We should have more of these ships, better than some radio stations we hear today Arthur Gray Isleworth Middlesex
London was the background to my early teanage years. I remember exactly where I was when it closed down. I joined the "fight for free Radio" organisation, and as a result in June 71 went on my only ever Demo (with a theme tune based on the music of Dads Army) Simon Dee was running up and down the column of marchers which made us feel good. I refused to listen to Radio 1 for donkeys years on principle. Some years later on a R1 gig I was working on I expressed my concerns to the R1 DJs, a number of whom were of course ex Pirates and they reassured me saying - 'we don't blame you' Without London & Caroline I would never have been exposed to all that new music - which ended up giving me a career in it for the past 40 years. (I'm not a DJ!). How times have changed!!
My happiness was short lived as all that wonderful crystal clear music was coming into Lancaster 24/7 An evil that thinks that it is good put a loud jamming signal over the music I am diverstated jamming my fathers pop ship & their still doing it blocking this for death.
In the middle of the 60', I received Veronica in the suburb of Paris (France), at night. I swapped between Veronica, radio london and Caroline, great moments of music, nothing like that on french radios
We never saw their like before and we have never seen their like since. I consider myself very privileged indeed to have lived through it and to have heard the best radio the UK has ever had. Shame on wilson's labour governemnt for destroying something so uniquely wonderful and ruining my remaining teenage years by taking away my friends the Pirates. I was devastated when the pirates left us and have never got over it, I doubt at this stage that I ever will.
