Radio Caroline founder died yesterday...

Founder of Radio Caroline Ronan O'Rahilly died yesterday aged 79:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-52362113



Gosh, the iconic words 'Radio Caroline' - took me right back to the 60s and listening with my tranny under the bedclothes when I was supposed to be sleeping


Thanks Ronan. It was brilliant. RIP

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I loved Radio Caroline back along it was the only radio station I listened to, on my little Tranny.

RIP Ronan O'Rahilly.

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I well remember the days of the 'pirate radio ships', as they were called – the early days of pop music – The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones and all those who followed in Britain's rock 'n' roll revolution.

https://time.com/4955482/pirate-radi...-rock-history/

RIP Ronan, thanks for all those early memories of pop music!

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Good old days when I was just leaving school I was listening to Caroline/Luxembourg and Radio North Sea when it was transmitting.
All great stations with great music and great DJ's.

I did some cabbing some years ago and was working in Brixton and tuning in to one of the many pirate stations still broadcasting in that area.

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I loved listening to Radio Caroline, the first introduction to Tony Blackburn.

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I remember trying to tune into Luxemburg on a Sunday evening to get the top twenty,.... but the memory fades... what was it that happened at Keynsham at Bristol, was that something to do with Radio Luxemburg ?

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What a guy, what a feat, setting up a pirate radio station, an old ferry boat in international waters, two fingers up to auntie beeb and record company rule, I was 12, this was anarchy, yeah.

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I could never get Radio Caroline on my trannie but I could get R. Luxembourg. I never knew R. Caroline was still broadcasting either.

I seem to remember it was something to do with either betting on horse races or the football pools. Just Googled it:

Wiki says. "Horace Cyril Batchelor was an English gambling advertiser. He was best known during the 1950s and 1960s as an advertiser on Radio Luxembourg. He advertised a way to win money by predicting the results of football matches, sponsoring programmes on the station."

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That's the one Percy, I remember it now...