The man who changed the face of popular music broadcasting when he founded the pirate station Radio Caroline in 1964 has died at the age of 76.
www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/21/ronan-orahilly-radio-caroline-founder-uk-pop-pirate-radio-dies-aged-79-james-bond-george-lazenby
Most of us here are of the age when we went round with a transistor radio glued to our ear listening to one of the many pirate radio stations. It got me the cane once when the earplug jack pulled out of my pocket radio during a boring lesson and one of the latest fab tunes started blaring all over the classroom, much to everyone's amusement (The teacher excepted).
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