The first offshore radio stations (in as much as they were certainly off the British coast line) get very little attention from anoraks even though Ronan O'Rahilly told a rather large whopper about one of them in relation to Georgie Fame. Yet these were the original pioneers of free radio for the UK, trying to bust the BBC's monopoly and loved by their listeners. Ironically a number of sixties offshore DJ's ended up on Luxy some because they could not get a gig on Radio One or in some cases didn't want to sell out to them.

It say's much about UK radio that even in the late 1980's Radio Luxembourg felt that there was still a market for high powered radio broadcasting into the UK as they and RTE set up Atlantic 252 (in part based on how good Laser 558 had been). So here are a few reminders of the 'other type' of British offshore radio along with the occasional fade in and out, when the real pioneers of UK commercial radio did their stuff.