UPDATED DECEMBER 2024

Last month we published what we thought were the last two pages of John Harding's Radio Atlantis photo album. But, the very next day, another batch of great photos arrived from him. You can see them here. We also have part three of Caroline in the 80s, looking at events in the North Sea 40 years ago; how to enjoy a beer and help Caroline! And, as Christmas approaches, why not get into the festive mood with our (slightly updated) pages on Christmas in International Waters?

Kenny Everett

The much-missed Kenny Everett would have been 80 years old this Christmas Day. To mark the anniversary Boom Radio is broadcasting Kenny's 80th party (Christmas Day at 7pm). BBC Radio 4 Extra is airing three shows Kenny made for BBC Radio Bristol after being sacked by Radio 1 (24th, 26th, 27th December). It is also repeating Paul Rowley's documentaries Kenny Everett: The BBC Local Radio Years (23rd December, first broadcast in 2001) and Happy Christmas Maurice Cole (25th December, originally from 2009).
 
There are also some celebrations of Radio London's 60th birthday this month: On Boom Radio John Peters pays tribute to Big L on Monday 23rd December at 6pm; Radio Mi Amigo has special programmes between 20th and 23rd December from the LV18 in Harwich; on 22nd and 23rd December there will be Big L Radio London. See the respective websites for more details. Meanwhile on Caroline Flashback, the Archive Hour (8-9pm) over the weekend of 14th / 15th December will be remembering the launch of Big L with lovingly restored vintage recordings of Earl Richmond, Pete Brady and Paul Kaye.
 
Radio Caroline DJ of the early 70s, Norman Barrington, has a special programme on both Radio Seagull and Radio Mi Amigo on Boxing Day (09:00-12:00, repeated 21:00-24:00 GMT) called Radio Radio - A Personal Retrospective. He says: “It traces the early years, the influence of American radio on European radio especially through the pirates with particular focus on 1964-1974 and of course my time which I know about the best .... including the voices of Tony Allan, Chris Cary, Andy Archer, Robin Adcroft, Mike Hagler and Brian Anderson. Jingles galore of course.”
 
See the contents page and DJ Directories of the sixties, seventies and eighties for full details of this website.
 
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FORTY YEARS AGO:

16th December 1984: Dutch station Radio Monique began broadcasts from the Radio Caroline ship (more details here).
 

SIXTY YEARS AGO:

14th December 1964: The Dutch offshore television station TV Noordzee closed down. Radio broadcasts continued.
16th December: Tom Pepper, the owner of Radio Invicta, drowned with two employees (more details here).
17th December: Dutch police raided the REM island, home of Radio Noordzee, and closed it down.
23rd December: Radio London started regular programmes 6am-9pm, on 1133 kHz (more details here).

 


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Britain's first offshore radio station, Radio Caroline, began broadcasting at Easter 1964 from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters.
 
She was followed by a host of other radio stations based on boats and marine structures dotted around the coast.
 
These “pirates” rapidly won an enormous and enthusiastic audience.
 
The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame
has been set up to honour the stars, the broadcasters, from that golden era of music radio.
 
This site is a tribute to the people who endured a daily battle with the elements to provide a soundtrack to the swinging sixties.

(The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is a British-based website. It only includes those DJs who broadcast in English and could be heard in the UK. Offshore radio also flourished in Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel and New Zealand. The absence of the DJs from these countries in the Hall of Fame does not suggest that they are any less deserving, just that they are outside the scope of this site. Please see the links page for details of websites which cover offshore radio in other parts of the world.)
 

The inductees in The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame are listed alphabetically. To find your favourite voice from the sixties either select it from the drop-down list below, search the site using the Google box or click on the appropriate page from the table of contents beneath. For broadcasters from the later decades, go to the Seventies Supplement or Eighties Supplement. There are some that we know very little about - see the help wanted page.


 
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THE OFFSHORE STATIONS OF THE 60s, 70s AND 80s

The Radio Atlantis Story

The Laser Story (parts one and two)

Memories of Britain Radio/Swinging Radio England

The Radio London Story

Radio Caroline in the Sixties

The Radio Northsea International Story

Radio Caroline in the Seventies

The Radio Scotland Story

Radio Caroline in the Eighties (parts 1 - 3)

The Radio Sutch/Radio City Story

The Radio Essex Story

Memories of Radio 270

The Radio Invicta Story

The Radio 355 Story

The Brief Reign of King Radio


 

The Radio 390 Story


We are very grateful to everyone who has contributed information, recordings or memorabilia to The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. We are always on the lookout for more so, if you have any items of interest, please get in touch.

60s Disc-Jockeys A 60s Disc-Jockeys He-Hu 60s Disc-Jockeys Q-R
60s Disc-Jockeys Ba-Bl 60s Disc-Jockeys I-J 60s Disc-Jockeys Sa-Sp
60s Disc-Jockeys Bo-Bz 60s Disc-Jockeys K 60s Disc-Jockeys St-Sy
60s Disc-Jockeys Ca-Cl 60s Disc-Jockeys L 60s Disc-Jockeys T-V
60s Disc-Jockeys Co-Cu 60s Disc-Jockeys M-Mi 60s Disc-Jockeys Wa-Web
60s Disc-Jockeys D 60s Disc-Jockeys Mo-Mu 60s Disc-Jockeys Wes-Wy
60s Disc-Jockeys E-G 60s Disc-Jockeys Mac-Mc 60s Disc-Jockeys X-Z
60s Disc-Jockeys Ha 60s Disc-Jockeys N-P Books
Charts Contact us Credits
Disc-Jockeys' photo albums Disc-Jockey spotlight Fans' memorabilia
Guestbook hosted By Bravenet.com Guestbook archive 2000-02 Links
The Tom Lodge story Odds and Ends Offshore Engineers of the 60s
Plans Programme schedules Sixties DJ Directory
Sixties Timeline Seventies supplement Eighties supplement
Site contents Site contents - by station We need your HELP

 
A number of the photos, stickers and recordings on this site are beginning to show their age. Apologies for those that are of less than perfect quality. Many of the photographs were distributed freely by the various radio stations and were intended for as wide a circulation as possible. Others have been donated to The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame which are of unknown origin. Where photos have been scanned from books, newspapers or magazines, we have given credit. However, if anybody believes that their copyright has been inadvertently infringed by the inclusion of an item on this site, please get in touch and it will be removed immediately. Similarly, anybody who has supplied audio for The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame has been credited but tapes get passed from collector to collector and often there is no way of knowing who made the original recording. Our apologies to anyone who thinks their work has been used here without due acknowledgment.
 
The name ‘Radio London’ and the RL logo are used by kind permission of Radio London Ltd.
The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame links to MP3s which can be downloaded by UK-based customers from Amazon. As in a traditional record shop, Amazon offers multiple versions of some songs. It isn't always easy to identify precisely which version is which. We have endeavoured to ensure that each link leads to the appropriate version of the relevant track - the one that was played by the offshore DJs of the era - but please listen carefully before purchasing. If you discover that any of them are later re-recordings, please let us know.
 
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