Tom Lodge used a new strategy against the British government to defy the law prohibiting broadcasting Rock & Roll to the teenagers in Great Britain. He, and his cohorts, worked in the English Channel aboard Radio Caroline, a converted steamship with a giant radio antenna attached. We discuss the forthcoming documentary about Radio Caroline: The Ship That Rocked the World.
Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Thursday, September 8, 2011. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.
Tom Lodge, one of the original DJs on Radio Caroline, a pirate radio ship operating just outside British waters during the 1960s, tells what it was really like in Pirate Radio in his book The Ship That Rocked The World: How Radio Caroline Defied the Establishment, Launched the British Invasion, and Made the Planet Safe for Rock and Roll
Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTOMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.