“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. "Fans would come out to visit the ship. In December 1965 he moves to Radio Luxembourg. So I turn him into a chipmunk. This was the 60s - people were just making love all over the place, no Aids or anything. Listened to for many a happy hour every night in the 60's. So fact was stranger than fiction: Tintin's fictional rocket was actually a real-world V2. I used to hide under the bedclothes and find John Peel's show. And three days after that, sackfuls of mail with Typhoo and Tetley in it.". 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. When Radio Caroline began in March 1964, the world of British pop was a contradictory place. Radio Luxembourg 208 - Your Station of the Stars Noel Edmonds tells the story of Luxy, the original pop music station in the UK. was too posh in those days to play such rubbish. In working order. Idle was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear (then County Durham) and lived at 11 North Avenue in Harton Village. It did not die in the late 60s, and it has survived sinkings, seizures, numerous wavelength changes and parodies (Smashie and Nicey set their pirate years on Radio Geraldine). It is known in most non-English languages as RTL. In fact, Brian has been a long time resident broadcaster on Saturdays over the years on the BBC. 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. 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. It's the first pirate station to broadcast solely in English. 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. ', "So we're getting to half-ten, and where's your record, Don? This is the ‘Shakin’ All Over’ list. He threatened he'd break my legs. 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. September 1964 Keith Skues joins Radio Caroline. So basically I trash his record, and Don Arden goes absolutely ballistic. 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. 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 … Many years ago, I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes. 2013/09/14 - Transistor Radios - listening to Radio Luxembourg (208) and Radio Caroline (259) under the bedclothes. The most famous member of the club – who Jimmy went to meet on behalf of the Club – was Elvis Presley. In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. The Boat That Rocked opens in the UK on 3 April. 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.'"). 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. 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. "Basically it was sleep in, read letters, pick records, eat and do your show," Walker says. 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. It was better than Radio Luxembourg, which only played records in part, and whose DJs seemed emasculated. 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. We described how the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act forced "all stations" to close in August 1967. Few people had a … 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. 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. Episode 1 1 / 2 Noel Edmonds tells the story of Luxy, the original pop music station in the UK. If you may have a book or got some articles from the press, please let me know. What is the answer to the follow question : Who formed the 'Under the Bedclothes Club' on Radio Luxembourg? 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). ", When the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act made the ships illegal in the summer of 1967, Walker took a heroic stance. Johnnie Walker begins his career here before moving to Radio Caroline. Radio Luxembourg - your Station of the Stars, broadcasting on a network of 208 megacycles. Larapedia.com Terms of service and privacy page. This article was amended on Thursday 12 March 2009. In the caption for the picture attached to this article we said the ship in question came ashore on the 15th August. '", Walker got high with his friends and suddenly found himself popular. I wouldn't call them groupies. The English-language service of Radio Luxembourg began in 1933 as one of the earliest commercial radio stations broadcasting to the UK and Ireland. 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) I have owned many gadgets over the years, they litter my kitchen cupboard and my attic. 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. "I said to him, 'You made me unemployed, Mr Wilson.' March 1967 John Peel begins his British radio career on Radio London's midnight-2am shift. "She said, 'You've got to be kidding. 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. The school had begun life as a Victorian orphanage, and during Idle's time was a charitable foundation dedicated to the … "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.". It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. So she rolled me up three joints, and I took them back to the ship. Radio Luxembourg played records and carried advertisements, but only after dark. May 1966 Pierson starts Swinging Radio England not far from WRL in the North Sea. My favourite gadget at the moment is probably my … It is now legal, headquartered in Maidstone, Kent, and available on Sky and the internet. ", 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. Many years ago, I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes. Few people had a phone or a … Ten to eleven. Kenny Everett is in the line-up. "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'. "She said, 'If you want any more, I'm always listening around half nine. 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. Photograph: Terry Disney/Getty Images. Just say you've run out of tea. Who formed the 'Under the Bedclothes Club' on Radio Luxembourg? At 21, he is the youngest DJ on British radio. 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?' Benn railed against the unlicensed use of wavelengths that might interfere with emergency signals and confuse ships at sea. "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. Radio Luxembourg played records and carried advertisements, but only after dark. 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. Marquee Club-Wikipedia. 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. '", Unlike Johnnie Walker, Tony Prince did jump ship in 1967, after seeking guidance from his listeners. And there was a tape recorder here for when things got really bad and the stylus started lifting off the record. There were a lot of fans in mourning. I don't think the little earphone is working. I was amazed I could hear voices and music. "£25 a week, plus your on-shore leave paid for." 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. O'Rahilly tried to instruct the DJs about his theory of "Loving Awareness", which entailed much free-spiritedness and hugging. Much used by my wife for listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes. Six weeks later, the BBC launches Radio 1, employing many pirate radio DJs, including Blackburn, Everett and Peel. But from August 1967 things changed. 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", Pirate DJs had more mundane things on the agenda. The DJs worked two weeks on, one week off. December 1964 Radio London, brainchild of Texan entrepreneur Don Pierson, begins broadcasting in direct competition with Radio Caroline, 3½ miles off Frinton-on-Sea. Marquee Club-Wikipedia. He bought the record on to the station. August 1967 The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act outlaws pirate radio; all stations are forced to close. This is the worst record you've ever heard. They didn't understand the half of it, but they did understand the unifying power of music. 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? Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. 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 … "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. Two days later a padded envelope arrives with four big spliffs in. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use). The Teen and Twenty Disc Club (TTDC) was part of Jimmy Savile’s Decca-sponsored Radio Luxembourg show. With no advertising revenue, slots on the playlist were sold, for about £100 a week. 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. "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. The B.B.C. 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. 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).. 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 … The government and the BBC were pretty much the same thing back then." 'Oh, it'll be on. Many spent time under the bedclothes with a transistor radio tuning in to Radio Luxembourg. ", On Caroline North, another popular DJ was seeing similar compromises. 'My girlfriend in London was an Irish girl called DeeDee. May also exist other answers and more update, the answer indicated above is indicative not be used for medical and legal or special purposes. In the early 60s, as a young boy growing up, I started listening to music. It drove the listeners crazy. This article was amended on Sunday 15 March 2009. By the 1960s, Radio Luxembourg, Your Station of the Stars, had embraced popular music in a way that even early BBC Radio 1 would never manage. Like a prizefighter who can't hear the bell, Radio Caroline is still going. 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. "It was about 90% in favour of coming ashore and looking after myself, not doing anything silly. 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...". He left the Marquee Club in 1970 to take a job in the offices of Radio Luxembourg. 'That's no good, let's try it at 33.' In a tame twist, the pirate spirit lives on at the BBC. 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. 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. 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. It was better than Radio Luxembourg, which only played records in part, and whose DJs seemed emasculated. 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. 2 / 2 How 208 was influential for millions of under-the-bedclothes listeners starved of music. But you will not hear waves in the background. As a listener you felt you were part of a secret club, under the bedclothes with your pop stars and your favourite jocks. And beneath the official complaints lay the festering establishment unease that young people were simply having too much fun. Examples of fair use include commentary, search engines, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. "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 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 … But I was pleased, because the station was quite patently crap compared to its heyday.". The radio was a portable (with difficulty) valve set - 110V lead-acid … 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. It probably represents the most useful way I could have spent my life.". "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. The music was unprecedented, an extraordinary burst of energy and frustration that still reverberates. All the information in our site are given for nonprofit educational purposes. My earliest memories is of 'Saturday Club' which was aimed at the teenage 'with it' population. Then a myriad of groups sprang up, like the Beatles,… Several of them have been useful; the Swivel Sweeper, Tobi Steamer and Magic Bullet are all television purchases I don't regret. 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.". July 1949 The Wireless Telegraphy Act bans radio stations not sanctioned by the government or the BBC. I wonder if we can improve it by whipping it up to 78?' 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. ... find was this tiny little radio. But they went off-air mid-evening each day to make space for the granddaddy of popular music services: Radio Luxembourg. Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, author, comedian and musician. ... find was this tiny little radio. 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. Jimmy Savile and The Under the Bedclothes Club. Walker tells a story that may have become amplified with repeated airings. Complete with its original box, case and earphone. 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. As a listener you felt you were part of a secret club, under the bedclothes with your pop stars and your favourite jocks. It was, in fact, the 14th. 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. 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. March 1964 Radio Caroline is founded by the Irish businessman Ronan O'Rahilly in international waters off Felixstowe. by Janet Alldis, © published 1993. 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. 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. The choice on the radio was very limited: chart hits or middle of the road stuff. His father had served in the Royal Air Force and survived World War II, only to be killed in a truck-crash shortly afterwards. 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. Unsurprisingly, Whitehall did not see this as innocent pleasure. "This explosion of music and fashion and teenage excitement - the lid had been kept on it for so long," Walker says. I actually got three books and you'll find them here plus one more. If you want to quickly find the pages about a particular topic as Who formed the 'Under the Bedclothes Club' on Radio Luxembourg? Radio Luxembourg 208 / under the bedclothes. In the caption for the picture attached to this article we said the radio station was Radio Caroline, it was in fact Radio London. "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. 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. 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. You must get bored, and this is just what you need.' 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. This has been amended. 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. A lot of books about the history and the DJ's of Radio Luxembourg are published over the years. Many spent time under the bedclothes with a transistor radio tuning in to Radio Luxembourg. It is 40 years since he joined Radio 1, a decade since graduating to Radio 2, but his spliff stories are newly in demand. 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. "So when it burst, it really burst, and it did scare the government. 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. Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg. And remember, Radio Luxembourg being a commercial station, we will have to include some of those nostalgic radio advertisements, and teach everyone how to spell K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M, remembering that we listened to 208 on a transistor radio under the bedclothes… "But this was before the bill came in. 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. 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. 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. July 1964 Tony Blackburn joins Radio Caroline. Ah! Walker, 63, is sitting in his club in Greek Street, drinking sparkling water. Noel Edmonds continues the story of the original pop music station in the UK - Radio Luxembourg. 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.
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