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Category: UK/Pirates
Launch of Capital Radio 539 London | October 16 1973
The launch of Capital Radio in London, was a big deal. It was the first of the UK general entertainment stations. Until the 1970s, British radio waves were the exclusive domain of BBC Radio, which usually lagged behind the times, especially when it came to Rock & Roll. This is why Pirate…
Keith Fordyce, Radio Luxembourg | December 24, 1966
You’ve been listening to the Good Times and their record, “Powder Your Face With Sunshine” and it’s on Decca American Radio in the 1960s had it’s own sound. DJs who were funny, Newscasts every hour and tons of commercials. Some stations had reverb. Some didn’t. The processing of each station was particular to an individual…
Peter Young, Capital Radio London (UK) | March, 1990
Contributor Bob Jones writes: Listened to the Capital Radio aircheck. Unreal how clean it is, isn’t it? Hard to believe I recorded it in the newsroom at KCEE in Tucson! I went ballistic when I found that feed and started rolling 12 inchers on the news R2R. The extra nice surprise of course, it being…
John Sachs, Capitol Radio 95.8 London (U.K.) | April, 1989
Bobby Brown‘s “Prerogative“, in at the chart at number 6 on Capitol. It’s half past two… From Contributor Bob Jones comes this high-quality, fantastic listen to one of the UK’s few independent radio stations. This one is GOOD, The jock in charge reads the traffic reports himself. He also does the contests (which are low-key)…
Bob Stewart, Capital Gold 1548 AM London | January 21, 1996
Bob Stewart (left) and friends, legends of U.K. Broadcasting Courtesy of Contributor Russ Horton, we have a unique recording of a DJ whose voice sounds quite similar to “The Duke of Louisville”. It’s not him, of course, but Bob Stewart definitely has a great set of pipes! Listening to Capital Gold, one can understand why…
Tony Prince, 1520 (199 Meters) Radio Caroline North | March 1, 1966
Here is a slightly restored (to remove noise and enhance the fidelity) aircheck of Tony Prince, donated to us by Russ Horton. There is a huge connection here, in that, Tony Prince is still very active in radio and in 2018, launched a new internet radio station called “United DJs”, featuring many names from the…
