Pirate Radio

[FalconAngel]

Getting ramped up to see the film.

As soon as I saw the promos for it, I knew that it was about Radio Caroline.

When I was stationed in Britain, I used to listen to either Radio Caroline or AFN radio out of Luxemburg.

For those that know little or nothing about Radio Caroline, here's something to look at about it. http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

The movie should be interesting.

[goldenfinger]

I grew up on radio Luxenburg, but only at night, in the daytime, reception was not good.With our national radio only playing 1 or 2 hours a day of pop, Radio Luxenburg was the only way to keep up to date.Funny, now I live in Australia, and I have had a gut full of commercial radio.

[goldenfinger]

This post need a background story for most of you people in the US. Radio Caroline and radio Luxenburg were two pirate radio stations operating from ships in international waters. Back in the 60's and 70's and before, commercial radio was banned, you only had state owned radio stations. They did cater for all taste, but you only got 1 or 2 hours if lucky, of your favourite pop music a day, something the young people didn't like. The two pirate stations were a torn in the eyes of the old political system, blasting that awful music out all over Europe. I remember coming to school every day discussing the latest new hits we heard on radio Luxenburg at night. Ah, the good old days. It all came to an end, when the ships were forced into port during a bad winter, when the sea froze up, and they had to escape the ice closing in on them.
Ah, miss the good old days.

[FalconAngel]

That's why I put the link in there, so that people could get the history of the station.

But when I mentioned AFN out of Luxembourg, I was talking about Armed Forces Radio, which catered to the American armed forces in the UK and Europe. Their broadcast facilities were in Luxembourg. They played everything from classical to Rock and Pop.

But mostly it was Caroline that was listened to on and off base where I was at.