Subject: RE: Radio Luxembourg 208 From: Newport Boy Date: 26 Jun 12 - 05:51 AM My main recollection of Radio Luxembourg is on summer evenings in 1954/5, sitting under the trees on the (ex)golfcourse. "She said, 'You've got to be kidding. "Some of these Dutch sailors [who fished and cooked as the music played] would be on board the boat for three months at a time, so they were pretty horny, and it caused a lot of trouble; women were banned from then on.". You can imagine how excited (and confused) I was listening to Radio Luxembourg RTL 208's pop music on a 10cm red-and-white rocket-shaped transistor radio late at night under the bedclothes. My favourite gadget at the moment is probably my … He anchored a ship in international waters off the Essex coast, where it escaped British legal jurisdiction, and hired DJs from British ballrooms and pop stations in the United States and Canada. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use). 'Oh, it'll be on. Marquee Club-Wikipedia. Walker is a consultant on the movie, and he has seen rushes, which has led him to conclude that those aboard The Boat That Rocked "definitely had a better time than we had - more drugs, more women...". And beneath the official complaints lay the festering establishment unease that young people were simply having too much fun. A classic MW/LW transistor radio from the 1960s. "I don't think that creating something that has provided harmless free enjoyment for millions of people for four decades could really be described as a waste. So she rolled me up three joints, and I took them back to the ship. A lot of books about the history and the DJ's of Radio Luxembourg are published over the years. This is the ‘Shakin’ All Over’ list. Walker, 63, is sitting in his club in Greek Street, drinking sparkling water. Instead of 24-hour satellite television, there was the anarchic free-for-all of Saturday morning pictures and the Under The Bedclothes Club on Radio Luxembourg. "Fans would come out to visit the ship. ... find was this tiny little radio. The Teen and Twenty Disc Club (TTDC) was part of Jimmy Savile’s Decca-sponsored Radio Luxembourg show. by Janet Alldis, © published 1993. March 1964 Radio Caroline is founded by the Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly in international waters off Felixstowe. If there's one radio station that has won a warm spot in the collective memory of European radio listeners, it's no doubt Radio Luxembourg. In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Many years ago, I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes. Based only loosely on real events, the film has music, sex and a sinking, and bears about as much relation to marine broadcasting as Notting Hill did to Notting Hill. Like a prizefighter who can't hear the bell, Radio Caroline is still going. If you want to quickly find the pages about a particular topic as Who formed the 'Under the Bedclothes Club' on Radio Luxembourg? This article was amended on Thursday 12 March 2009. He is featured in composite form in the forthcoming Richard Curtis film The Boat That Rocked, a comedy about the last days of pirate radio in 1967, before the government made it illegal and sanctioned Radio 1 in its place. In working order. ... find was this tiny little radio. 2013/09/14 - Transistor Radios - listening to Radio Luxembourg (208) and Radio Caroline (259) under the bedclothes. Idle was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear (then County Durham) and lived at 11 North Avenue in Harton Village. Richard revisits childhood haunts, encountering an England changed beyond recognition – from the covered market which is now a 30-storey Dubai-style tower block to his old primary school, where pupils now speak 20 different languages as their mother … In a tame twist, the pirate spirit lives on at the BBC. The government and the BBC were pretty much the same thing back then." The pirates talked a full-blooded language, even those on Caroline North, a second ship moored near the Isle of Man, who were keen to foster the personality of "zany": Jerry "Soopa" Leighton, Mick Luvzit, "Daffy" Don Allen, and they found an outlet for new creativity. Radio Luxembourg 208 - Your Station of the Stars Noel Edmonds tells the story of Luxy, the original pop music station in the UK. He left the Marquee Club in 1970 to take a job in the offices of Radio Luxembourg. Jimmy Savile and The Under the Bedclothes Club. I used to hide under the bedclothes and find John Peel's show. "So on my show at about half nine, I said, 'I just want to say good evening to Dee in Kilburn, and we've run out of tea, love.' In his new film The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis replays those heady days when music, fashion and youth were redefining British culture. His addiction to music began in the mid fifties upon hearing Skiffle and Rock n’ Roll, and misspent many a happy hour listening under the bedclothes on his crystal set to Lonnie Donegan and Buddy Holly on Radio Luxembourg. ", Pirate DJs had more mundane things on the agenda. But the institutions that controlled the music - the stuffy record companies, the curfewed ballrooms, the weary, disbelieving parents - tried to keep the dampers on everything. The school had begun life as a Victorian orphanage, and during Idle's time was a charitable foundation dedicated to the … Examples of fair use include commentary, search engines, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. "But everyone knew what would happen if the government legitimised an onshore radio station - it's what we got when Radio 1 started, a terrible station to begin with. Episode 1 1 / 2 Noel Edmonds tells the story of Luxy, the original pop music station in the UK. All the information in our site are given for nonprofit educational purposes. ", When the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act made the ships illegal in the summer of 1967, Walker took a heroic stance. "Basically it was sleep in, read letters, pick records, eat and do your show," Walker says. "I said to him, 'You made me unemployed, Mr Wilson.' Walker tells a story that may have become amplified with repeated airings. He threatened he'd break my legs. With the BBC’s habit of rationing popular music and light entertainment in the 1930s, Radio Luxembourg had made a very profitable niche for itself putting out exactly those types of programmes for 6-8 hours a night every night, interspersed with advertising and … At 21, he is the youngest DJ on British radio. ', "A quarter to eleven, still no record. „As a listener you felt you were part of a secret club, under the bedclothes with your pop stars and your favourite jocks. On the Caroline website, founder Ronan O'Rahilly reveals that he was recently told by someone close to him that he had wasted his life on Radio Caroline, but he disagreed. He says that before the ban he was never told what to play ("The only memos from the office in London would be: 'There's a journalist coming out to the ship - don't be hanging out in your pyjamas.'"). Few people had a phone or a … Larapedia.com Terms of service and privacy page. It was, in fact, the 14th. Ah! He thought he could do the same at greater volume for the UK. The most famous member of the club – who Jimmy went to meet on behalf of the Club – was Elvis Presley. They didn't understand the half of it, but they did understand the unifying power of music. March 1967 John Peel begins his British radio career on Radio London's midnight-2am shift. But I was pleased, because the station was quite patently crap compared to its heyday.". This has been amended. The Boat That Rocked opens in the UK on 3 April. "Don Arden, the promoter [he managed the Small Faces and Lynsey de Paul, was Sharon Osbourne's father, and died in 2007], had recorded "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof, and it was dire. In December 1965 he moves to Radio Luxembourg. Then a myriad of groups sprang up, like the Beatles,… "We were infested with these awful records that had no right to be on the radio - pay for play," Tony "The Royal Ruler" Prince told me in the London office of his latest project, Wedding TV. It is now legal, headquartered in Maidstone, Kent, and available on Sky and the internet. O'Rahilly tried to instruct the DJs about his theory of "Loving Awareness", which entailed much free-spiritedness and hugging. Unlike at Stoke House, there were other boys there who appreciated pop music. Instead of 24-hour satellite television, there was the anarchic free-for-all of Saturday morning pictures and the Under The Bedclothes Club on Radio Luxembourg. "It was about 90% in favour of coming ashore and looking after myself, not doing anything silly. O'Rahilly had discovered something intriguing: unlicensed ships in Europe with pirate transmitters playing music of their choosing to a tiny audience in the Netherlands and Scandinavia. Unsurprisingly, Whitehall did not see this as innocent pleasure. I wouldn't call them groupies. In the early 60s, as a young boy growing up, I started listening to music. Then a myriad of groups sprang up, like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Animals, Spencer Davis Group who were predominately covering the songs of Black America – apart from the rock & roll we had been hearing for a few years, there was rhythm & blues, soul, Motown, jazz, blues. Answer to the follow question : Who formed the 'Under the Bedclothes Club' on Radio Luxembourg? It was better than Radio Luxembourg, which only played records in part, and whose DJs seemed emasculated. That's why the American government put Elvis in the army and why the British police hounded Brian Jones in an attempt to destroy the Stones. He's got a sheet, similar to mine: 'Between 10 and 11 your record will be on. The Musicians' Union claimed that the ships were not only failing to "keep music live" but didn't even pay for the records they played. Walker now had to return to Caroline not from Harwich but via Dutch waters. The English-language service of Radio Luxembourg began in 1933 as one of the earliest commercial radio stations broadcasting to the UK and Ireland. But it was goaded into action by the Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe and the postmaster-general, Anthony Wedgwood (Tony) Benn, and soon familiar battle lines were drawn: the suits versus the hairies. The following texts are the property of their respective authors and we thank them for giving us the opportunity to share for free to students, teachers and users of the Web their texts will used only for illustrative educational and scientific purposes only. At five to eleven, I say, 'I've been putting off playing this for a whole hour but I've got to play it now. Six weeks later, the BBC launches Radio 1, employing many pirate radio DJs, including Blackburn, Everett and Peel. I used to hide under the bedclothes and find John Peel's show. No wonder teenagers screamed at their idols at concerts: it was an orgiastic release, true unbound freedom even as they were being levered back into their seats. As a listener you felt you were part of a secret club, under the bedclothes with your pop stars and your favourite jocks. Who formed the 'Under the Bedclothes Club' on Radio Luxembourg? 'That's no good, let's try it at 33.' The breakfast show is broadcast from Los Angeles, and last week featured an interview with Bill Nighy about his role in The Boat That Rocked (he said he used to be a fan of Caroline as a teenager, lapping up anything by the Rolling Stones). December 1964 Radio London, brainchild of Texan entrepreneur Don Pierson, begins broadcasting in direct competition with Radio Caroline, 3½ miles off Frinton-on-Sea. His father had served in the Royal Air Force and survived World War II, only to be killed in a truck-crash shortly afterwards. My earliest memories is of 'Saturday Club' which was aimed at the teenage 'with it' population. 2013/09/14 - Transistor Radios - listening to Radio Luxembourg (208) and Radio Caroline (259) under the bedclothes. Instead of 24-hour satellite television, there was the anarchic free-for-all of Saturday morning pictures and the Under The Bedclothes Club on Radio Luxembourg. The radio was a portable (with difficulty) valve set - 110V lead-acid … ", Fellow DJ Tom Lodge once took his long-term partner on board, and she used to waft around the ship in a see-through negligee. It's not easy to get them. So fact was stranger than fiction: Tintin's fictional rocket was actually a real-world V2. I was amazed I could hear voices and music. When Radio Caroline began in March 1964, the world of British pop was a contradictory place. I don't think the little earphone is working. At night time, I would snuggle under the bedclothes to listen to Radio Luxembourg. He was the man who helped give The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Paul Anka, Donovan, Petula Clark and scores of others their big break. I spent most of my early youth listening to pop music from Radio Luxembourg on that old crystal set, sometimes late into the night and under the bedclothes when, unknown to my parents, I should have been sleeping. Focussing on the 208 service, which was opened by Pete Murray on July 2nd 1951 and closed down on 31-12-2015, Philip Champion elucidates the … The station provided a way to circumvent British legislation which until 1973 gave the BBC a monopoly of radio broadcasting on UK territory and prohibited all forms of advertising over the domestic radio … Idle is a former member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Spamalot (based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail).. It was better than Radio Luxembourg, which only played records in part, and whose DJs seemed emasculated. Ten to eleven. "But this was before the bill came in. "This explosion of music and fashion and teenage excitement - the lid had been kept on it for so long," Walker says. No one had a more moralising grip on entertainment than the BBC, which rationed pop to a few hours a week on the Light Programme. The radio was a portable (with difficulty) valve set - 110V lead-acid … It is 40 years since he joined Radio 1, a decade since graduating to Radio 2, but his spliff stories are newly in demand. Yesterday a blue plaque was unveiled at the station’s original London headquarters in Mayfair to celebrate almost 60 years of broadcasting to the British public. So basically I trash his record, and Don Arden goes absolutely ballistic. Former presenters Howard Pearce, Pete Murray, 94, David Jensen, 69, Timmy Mallett, 64, Mike Read, 72, Tony Prince, 75, Mark Wesley, 71, and Peter Anthony, 63, joined Luxembourg’s … I spent most of my early youth listening to pop music from Radio Luxembourg on that old crystal set, sometimes late into the night and under the bedclothes when, unknown to my parents, I should have been sleeping. "While you were broadcasting it was this really vibrant exciting place but if ever it went off air you realised you were just on this rusting hulk in the middle of the sea and you wanted to get off. This has been amended. As a listener you felt you were part of a secret club, under the bedclothes with your pop stars and your favourite jocks. In the caption for the picture attached to this article we said the ship in question came ashore on the 15th August. July 1964 Tony Blackburn joins Radio Caroline. “I grew up listening to Radio Luxembourg, having the transistor to my ear under the bedclothes.” His story takes place in 1984, “the last retro-futuristic year”, as he puts it. Marquee Club-Wikipedia. Source : http://api.ning.com/files/O*H55*IOAAELvlvbvLVnedmOt6ifMp0PkBiL5NQWaIcxNmrimGP30uDVg3JFpdefnrrkSKzNpps5SvSHstx6ZBRPoOxKMnUw/10000triviaQuestions.xls, Web site link of source : http://community.eflclassroom.com/forum2/topics/826870:Topic:70576?page=1&commentId=826870%3AComment%3A326973&x=1#826870Comment326973, Author : not indicated on the source document of the above text. Idle stated that the two things that made his life bearable were listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes and watching the local football team, Wolverhampton Wanderers. At night time, I would snuggle under the bedclothes to listen to Radio Luxembourg. But soon there was competition from other nearby ships, particularly "Wonderful Radio London", and they upped the tempo (the former Radio London DJ Keith Skues described his station as the "swingingest"); soon the Rolling Stones and the Byrds were enthralling anyone who, like a young Johnnie Walker listening in a suburb of Birmingham, could thread a long wire from their window and manipulate the spotty reception. But they went off-air mid-evening each day to make space for the granddaddy of popular music services: Radio Luxembourg. I told her that none of us smoked out there. Subject: RE: Radio Luxembourg 208 From: Newport Boy Date: 26 Jun 12 - 05:51 AM My main recollection of Radio Luxembourg is on summer evenings in 1954/5, sitting under the trees on the (ex)golfcourse. This is the worst record you've ever heard. was too posh in those days to play such rubbish. The movie features the usual pliable gang - Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Rhys Ifans - with Philip Seymour Hoffman filling the slot vacated by Hugh Grant. ", He comes upon a photograph of himself and Harold Wilson. Radio Caroline began out of self-interest - its founder was a chancing young Irish pop manager called Ronan O'Rahilly, frustrated by the lack of outlets for his new talents, but he soon realised what could be unleashed. Radio Luxembourg - your Station of the Stars, broadcasting on a network of 208 megacycles. The B.B.C. This is me in the studio - in the middle of the ship, so that when you were in a force nine gale it didn't move quite so much. The mid 1960s saw an extraordinary explosion of British pop music but the only radio stations broadcasting it were based on 'pirate' ships, like Radio Caroline, anchored off the coast. Under The Bedclothes. Aboard Radio London, Kenny Everett developed his alter-egos and parodied Tony Benn; John Peel's The Perfumed Garden planted the seeds of bearded progressive rock. Kenny Everett is in the line-up. [Emperor] Rosko used to throw them overboard. "I've got quite a good drugs story,' says the DJ Johnnie Walker. So we came ashore, and there was a double-page spread in the Mirror of Dave Lee Travis carrying me off the tender. Idle stated that the two things that made his life bearable were listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes and watching the local football team, Wolverhampton Wanderers. use the following search engine: Who formed the 'Under the Bedclothes Club' on Radio Luxembourg? Many spent time under the bedclothes with a transistor radio tuning in to Radio Luxembourg. 'My girlfriend in London was an Irish girl called DeeDee. '", Unlike Johnnie Walker, Tony Prince did jump ship in 1967, after seeking guidance from his listeners. This was the 60s - people were just making love all over the place, no Aids or anything. Walker says he has seen a BBC memo from 1967 addressed to the Radio 1 controller: "On no account should Johnnie Walker be employed for at least a year to let the taint of criminality subside.". Much used by my wife for listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes. If you may have a book or got some articles from the press, please let me know. "Unbeknown to me, Don has organised this big party at his house, and he's got radios in every room, and is telling people that 'my record is going to be on Radio Caroline'. He said, 'What were you - a miner? July 1949 The Wireless Telegraphy Act bans radio stations not sanctioned by the government or the BBC. "£25 a week, plus your on-shore leave paid for." September 1964 Keith Skues joins Radio Caroline. Instead of 24-hour satellite television, there was the anarchic free-for-all of Saturday morning pictures and the Under The Bedclothes Club on Radio Luxembourg. '", Walker got high with his friends and suddenly found himself popular. Yesterday a blue plaque was unveiled at the station’s original London headquarters in Mayfair to celebrate almost 60 years of broadcasting to the British public. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. This article was amended on Sunday 15 March 2009. I actually got three books and you'll find them here plus one more. Few people had a … I used to live with her in Kilburn on my week off, and one day she said, 'Johnnie, do you need some spliffs for the ship?' His mother had difficulty coping with a full-time job and raising a child, so when he was seven, she enrolled him into the Royal Wolverhampton School as a boarder. They both play big hits from their shipping days, though it is a cruel irony that something may be lost with high-quality digital reception. So I turn him into a chipmunk. In the caption for the picture attached to this article we said the radio station was Radio Caroline, it was in fact Radio London. O'Rahilly named his enterprise after Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the US president, who was six when he saw a photo of her in a magazine and considered her fresh and exciting - just the kind of image he was keen to promote. The choice on the radio was very limited: chart hits or middle of the road stuff. But from August 1967 things changed. May also exist other answers and more update, the answer indicated above is indicative not be used for medical and legal or special purposes. And three days after that, sackfuls of mail with Typhoo and Tetley in it.". Complete with its original box, case and earphone. And there was a tape recorder here for when things got really bad and the stylus started lifting off the record. Radio Luxembourg 208 / under the bedclothes. Noel Edmonds continues the story of the original pop music station in the UK - Radio Luxembourg. One of the biggest hits was the Dubliners' "Seven Drunken Nights", which wouldn't have been a hit if Caroline North and South hadn't been playing it every hour every day for weeks. Radio Luxembourg became one of the first English language commercial station to broadcast in Britain when it began transmissions in 1933, using a … You must get bored, and this is just what you need.' The DJs worked two weeks on, one week off. Radio Luxembourg played records and carried advertisements, but only after dark. As a listener you felt you were part of a secret club, under the bedclothes with your pop stars and your favourite jocks. ', "So we're getting to half-ten, and where's your record, Don? Richard revisits childhood haunts, encountering an England changed beyond recognition - from the covered market which is now a 30-storey Dubai-style tower block to his old primary school, where pupils now speak 20 different … If you are the author of the text above and you not agree to share your knowledge for teaching, research, scholarship (for fair use as indicated in the United States copyrigh low) please send us an e-mail and we will remove your text quickly. The following texts are the property of their respective authors and we thank them for giving us the opportunity to share for free to students, teachers and users of the Web their texts will used only for … But that's another story. We described how the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act forced "all stations" to close in August 1967. Listened to for many a happy hour every night in the 60's. With no advertising revenue, slots on the playlist were sold, for about £100 a week. Many years ago, I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes. Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg. Extracts from Under the Bedclothes, 1993 biography by Janet Alldis, his daughter; Aircheck Legends: Barry Alldis page; Dick Offringa's Radio Luxembourg page (includes a very rare 21-second video clip of Barry Alldis at work in the Luxembourg studio in 1964) He banned supplies to the ships from British ports, and his support strengthened in 1966 when a takeover dispute between the unlicensed stations Radio Atlanta and Radio City resulted in the fatal shooting of Radio City's owner. Most of his fellow DJs had other ambitions; some had contracts for Radio Luxembourg, others for the newly announced Radio 1. Two days later a padded envelope arrives with four big spliffs in. One of my favourite broadcasters is Brian Matthew still going strong today on Radio 2 with 'Sounds of the Sixties' on Saturdays. I wonder if we can improve it by whipping it up to 78?' The man who had millions of listeners tuning into his programme under the bedclothes. Instead of 24-hour satellite television, there was the anarchic free-for-all of Saturday morning pictures and the Under The Bedclothes Club on Radio Luxembourg. In May 1962, the power of Radio Luxembourg was displayed in Britain when B Bumble and The Stingers took the instrumental Nut Rocker into the UK Top 10 without a single play on the national BBC … Initial output was dignified, with shows aimed at housewives and children home from school; they did play the Beatles, but also the Searchers and Ken Dodd. Just say you've run out of tea. 2 / 2 How 208 was influential for millions of under-the-bedclothes listeners starved of music. Harold Wilson's Labour government of 1964 was initially slow to respond to the pirate ships, not least because it held a narrow majority and feared alienating potential voters. This article was amended on Tuesday 10 March 2009. Keith "Cardboard Shoes" Skues, now 70, presents Pirate Radio Skues on BBC Radio Norfolk on Sunday nights, while Johnnie Walker has a Saturday-night show on Radio 2 called Pirate Johnnie Walker. It probably represents the most useful way I could have spent my life.". Benn railed against the unlicensed use of wavelengths that might interfere with emergency signals and confuse ships at sea. Here, the original pirate DJs revisit their vivid lives of sex, drugs... and music, Staff of ship-based pirate radio station Radio London arrive at Felixstowe after the station's closure, 14th August 1967. What is the answer to the follow question : Who formed the 'Under the Bedclothes Club' on Radio Luxembourg? Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, author, comedian and musician. Or as Ken Dodd used to parody on his Radio 2 (Light Program) Show - Radio … BBC Radio 1 Listen to BBC Radio 1, home of the Official Chart, the Live Lounge and the world's greatest DJs including Nick Grimshaw, Scott Mills, Fearne Cotton, Greg … He left the Marquee Club in 1970 to take a job in the offices of Radio Luxembourg. We knew the BBC were recording all our output from Caversham, and they were hoping we would get political and start having a go at Harold Wilson, but we never did. Several of them have been useful; the Swivel Sweeper, Tobi Steamer and Magic Bullet are all television purchases I don't regret. Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. Johnnie Walker begins his career here before moving to Radio Caroline. Many spent time under the bedclothes with a transistor radio tuning in to Radio Luxembourg. But as the main text made clear, Radio Caroline defied the new legislation and stayed on the air on various vessels, the last of which was shipwrecked in 1990, when it was obliged to seek new ways of broadcasting. But you will not hear waves in the background. Photograph: Terry Disney/Getty Images. Within 18 months, the Beatles, the Stones and the Who had thrown off not only post-war austerity and authority but also any notion that young people would ever be governable again. The record programmes, brought to you by each label in turn or by various shampoo and chocolate manufacturers, were very different from the American-style output of the “pirates” but still very cool. "She said, 'If you want any more, I'm always listening around half nine. There was a big farewell party in a ballroom with Procol Harum and many eager girls, but he always planned to return to the ship and defy the law. The information of medicine and health contained in the site are of a general nature and purpose which is purely informative and for this reason may not replace in any case, the council of a doctor or a qualified entity legally to the profession. So girls would come to the ship, and we'd tie their boat alongside, and we used to get the engineer to take their boyfriends off to look round the transmitters and the generators, and we'd take them downstairs to the cabins. There were a lot of fans in mourning. "So when it burst, it really burst, and it did scare the government. In fact, Brian has been a long time resident broadcaster on Saturdays over the years on the BBC. ", On Caroline North, another popular DJ was seeing similar compromises.
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