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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
- Paul McCartney
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We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
- Decca Records’ rejection letter to The Beatles, 1962
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because look at America.
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So this is America.
They all seem to be out of their minds.
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Just look at it.
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There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.
- Mick Jagger
On the BBC, six hours of "pop music" a week was allowed, AFTER passing censorship and approval . . . .
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I don’t know anything about music. In my line, you don’t have to.- Elvis Presley
because really,
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I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.
- Mick Jagger |
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Rock 'n' roll will never die.
There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.
- Dave Edmunds
Ironically, the British invasion did more than just look . . .
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The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't. - Mitch Miller
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and Amercian youth did what American youth does . . .
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun. - Paul McCartney
went mental and made some people very, very rich.
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Apparently, rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.
- Emma Thompson
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The dilemma for Brits opposed to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and other debauchery, was an inability to control what happened past British territorial limits.
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| Pirate Radio, The Boat That Rocked |
Vessels of questionable sea-worthiness and abandoned ocean platforms became offshore pirate radio stations.
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At dinner, the captain . . . said, 'Just for Dave's benefit, we'll have to go through the lifeboat drill.' . . .
I'd only been asleep for a couple of hours when the alarm went off. I got out of bed, was about to put my trousers on when someone grabbed my hand and said, 'No time for that, quick quick!'
So I was in my underpants in the North Sea, I went up to my post by a boat on top deck and I stood there almost naked, freezing my arse off, waiting for instructions.
After five minutes, I thought, Nobody's given me orders, I can't hear anything, this is crazy – and as I went downstairs, I heard muffled laughter. It was a first-night wind-up. I unloosed a lot of expletives. - Dave Lee Travis, pirate radio DJ
The acoustics were terrible and records would skip when the ships bobbed.
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| Dave Lee Travis, pirate radio DJ |
When the weather was really rough, we had to attach an old two-shilling piece on to the arm of the record player to keep the needle weighted down on the record against all the pitching and tossing. And when it got really bad out there, we'd call it a Half-Crown Day.- Dave Lee Travis, pirate radio DJ
The DJs became celebrities.
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| Dave Cash, DJ for Radio London |
The stations were also able to tap into advertising funds, something the BBC did not do.
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| DJ Tom Lodge explained why women were banned. |
In August 1967, the government implemented the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act, making it illegal to work on, supply or advertise on pirate ships which killed the stations.
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| Pirate DJs become BBC DJs |
The BBC set up its pop channel Radio One in 1967 and recruited many of the pirate DJs.
The Principality of Sealand, a micronation, is a remanent of pirate radio.
HM Fort Roughs, is an abandoned WWII anti-aircraft gun platform, off the coast of Suffolk, England. In the 1960's, pirate radio broadcaster Paddy Roy Bates ejected a competing pirate radio operator from the platform and declared that the structure was an independent nation-state.
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| Princess Joan of Sealand |
Bates, now the prince of his own nation, decided not to continue broadcasting. Instead, he created a national flag, stamps, currency, and constitution.
A few years later, after thwarting an occupation effort by another pirate radio broadcaster, Roy and his son Michael were arrested on weapons charges. The courts ruled that the area was outside of the British territorial limits.
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| The Sealand invasion. |
In 1978, a German businessman, Alexander Achenbach, calling himself Prime Minister of Sealand, invaded platform and took Bates's son, Michael, hostage. Bates launched a counterattack and held Achenbach and company as prisoners of war.
Germany then sent a diplomat to Britain to ask for intervention but Britain claimed they did not have jurisdiction. Germany then sent a diplomat to Sealand directly to negotiate their release.
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| Roy Bates stands under the Sealand Flag |
In 1987, the UK extended its territorial waters from 3 to 12 nautical miles moving Sealand inside British jurisdiction. 150,000 Sealand passports were revoked.
An attempt was made to sell Sealand in 2007 but the $900 million asking price was evidently beyond the market for a WWII platform nation-state.
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| Michael Bates, Prince Regent of Sealand |
Roy Bates died in 2012 leaving his son Michael as the royal heir.
The Principality continues to sell a variety of items including titles of nobility and publishes an online newspaper, Sealand News.
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Protecting the micronation Sealand
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Sealand is currently occupied by a caretaker.
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