The real story is even better - possible spoilers

Rating: 7/10 (27 September 2009)

OK I haven't seen the movie just the trailer and read the comments here, but the actual saga of Pirate radio is raunchier, racier and more sinister than this movie portrays. Go find a copy of Robert Chapman's "Selling the Sixties" published by Routledge in 1992. He was a teenage Caroline fan. Recorded hundreds of hours on tape, and built his PhD thesis around the story of the pirates. Just think: the BBC went on with "legitimate" pop music radio in 1967. The Beatles had already conquered the world. There was nowhere else to hear the sound of the sixties as they happened but pirate radio. Some of the DJS in the movie ended up on other stations - Emperor Rosko, Kenny Everett, Tony Blackburn and DLT. They all had such an impact on popular culture - to this day. Eddie Izzard is the comedic son of Kennt Everett.