Radio London

…hippy-trippy Perfumed Garden on pirate Radio London. While his fellow deejays cultivated wild and crazy personalities, Ravenscroft, having adopted the last name Peel as a pirate mask, was droll and unflappable but ever the iconoclast. Still, when the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established Radio 1 in September 1967 in response…

But by the time Radio London, a station with a slickly professional sound and commercial clout, opened in December, the airwaves of the United Kingdom were cluttered with unlicensed broadcasters operating from either ships or disused marine defense emplacements. Audience figures grew through 1965 as listeners embraced the formula…