PIRATE RADIO is a GROOVY movie, man!

[ThatsMyBarack]

Quite a time trip back to 1966: Mod British fashions and a GROOVY rock-n-roll soundtrack! :hippie:

Also, Philip Seymour Hoffman is great as "The Count"! :hippie:

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

1. Excellent!

I am leaving to see it in a few minutes. :)

[SanddancerUSA]

2. Radio Caroline

Being of a certain age i can remember sneaking the radio into bed to listen to Radio Caroline which is where this movie gets it's inspiration from. RC was parked three miles off the coast of Fleixtstowe. It was that or Radio Luxembourg. I'm sure my recollection are somewhat rosie but the music of the day was and will always be just wonderful.

[tigereye]

4. welcome to DU!

I read about Radio Caroline on Wiki - very interesting! Amazing that rock and roll was banned from the British airwaves for so long!

[SanddancerUSA]

6. Not sure about banned.

Just restricted for our own good seemingly.

[tigereye]

8. some would call that banned!

:D

[SanddancerUSA]

7. Poachers became gamekeepers.

Quite a few of the Pirate DJs went legit, joining BBC Radio 1 when it started up.

[tigereye]

9. well, that always seems to happen to some extent

the outsiders often become the insiders when things open up more...

[DBoon]

11. I am that "certain age" as well

Couldn't hear it on the US west coast, but I was a young electronics nerd, and read about it in Electronics Illustrated at the time.

[tigereye]

3. thought it was a lot of fun - great soundtrack!

[rurallib]

5. Very entertaining

I am getting harder to please these days and I was quite pleased with this.
Don't want to spoil anything. Just want to say I used to live with a guy like Bob.

[david13]

10. I usually don't watch films. Usually not worth it. But this looks like

some fun from the old days. I may have to see this.
Thanks for the tip.
dc