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2/2/2020

Ronan O'Rahilly declared that the UK major record labels had Radio Luxembourg to themselves back in 1960-64. It was as simple as that, there was no room at the Inn for independent music promoters. In fact it is the single reason that Radio Caroline was planned and delivered, just check your Caroline Bible, it's all there!

We have already blown some of this apart by a simple case study on Joe Meek and his independent record label that had a regular show on Radio Luxembourg, not bad considering the monopoly exploitation described by Mr O'Rahilly as the cause to set up Radio Caroline.

In a new series we plan to examine older and original evidence that has recently come our way. Documented and time-lined, our focus is on Radio Luxembourg from 1956 through to 1963. You can decide for yourself, just consider the details and form your own conclusion. Foundations are vital and however old the building is, when they start to crumble, the whole house might just come tumbling down.

44 Comments

Radio-Noir

3/2/2020 07:32:45 am

While the Radio Luxembourg programme magazines of the 50s and 60s do provide some core details, the '208' story about the rise and fall of Alan Freed, and the programme contractors Towers of London and Ross Radio Productions, remains totally unexplored - until now. Part of the problem is with the focused interests of radio enthusiasts who want to stay away from politics, and yet, that is where the story of these "influencers" is to be found. What the casual observer sees is the tip of an iceberg that all but disappears in the very early 1960s when the original post-WWII '208' disappeared forever. Once that visible 'tip' disappeared, all interest interest in discovering what was beneath it, also disappeared. Then came a new slate of publications that totally ignored everything that Radio Luxembourg had been from about 1946 to about 1963. That story is very dark and very political. It is documented within the world of geopolitics, but that is not where most radio fans want to go, they want to bounce along with happy memories about what they are told to remember.

James McGregor

6/2/2020 01:06:21 pm

The facts are that when you change over to a new month in slavish devotion to the calendar, no one else's bookmarked browsers notice and they continue to live in the past 28 days

Captain Alchemist Smith

6/2/2020 01:50:13 pm

Knowing James quite well, this observation is probably just the tip of the iceberg he hopes will take any criticism of the unsinkable blarney down like a stone.

James McGregor

6/2/2020 01:58:10 pm

Knowing Captain Alchemist just as well as he knows himself I suggest yet again that 208 was in on the game. If not directly as a fellow pirate, certainly very well aware. Look at the history of aviation, no internet or telephone to mass communicate but extremely quickly for the age man is suddenly very lighter than air

Captain Alchemist Smith

6/2/2020 02:06:38 pm

Your plane is full of hot air and no fuel Alkie

James McGregor

6/2/2020 02:09:09 pm

Your ship is full of unexplained holes and sinking Malkie

New Castle Under Lyme

6/2/2020 02:13:35 pm

Scuse please James, I am a humble warehouse worker from Poland but are you not the self appointed defender of Camelot Camp?

James McGregor

6/2/2020 02:22:27 pm

I am a wise guy. A galley slave no more. Radio Scotland can scratch and sniff. I am with swingers and Radio England. LA La Land confidential - men of honour, and a valour paraffin rub on the back

Keven Spackery

6/2/2020 02:32:35 pm

I tell you, the court, my fellow inferior thespian peers, that in all seriousness I have never heard of this idiot and when I did what I wanted he did not listen, he just squealed

Acceptable lights out missionary position?

6/2/2020 08:02:48 pm

Wow, thank you James, amazing re evaluations of the secret history of the Chris Evans Lemon Closet. I am so sorry for implying you were a troll. I can now understand your fruit abuse fetish and my team will be working it into my (next) new book provisionally titled The Secret Life of Sherbert Armstrong's Domestic Waste McGregor Digestor. You are doing a sterling job here James regurgitating valuable mulch to save the planet from this pseudo religion of going on the internet every day to spew out slabs of absolute compost. It is extremely unlikely you will have any grandchildren but if you do and if they can communicate through their inherited genetic deformity, they will surely thank you in spades by digging your grave and spitting on it like a video nasty. DO YOU NOT GET IT YET JAMES???? RADIO CAROLINE IS EVIL EVIL EVIL AND YET EVEN MOORE EVIL DEAD THAN WHEN SHE WAS ALIVE .
ANYONE WHO APPROACHES HER WITH PRAISE IS SICK, TWISTED, DELUDED, STUPID AND HAVING NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGES BRAIN WHEN MY BOOK IS RELEASED FROM 50 YEARS OF CAPTIVITY THIS YEAR THE ANORAK CLAD ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS WILL BOIL IN THEIR OWN BLOOD AND DRINK THEIR OWN URINATED WORDS WITH ICE CUBES. Excuse me James I must go and assist the cream of my make up foundation team. We have a deadline of the rest of our lives to check our made up lies, lies and more lies about the wholesome honest to goodness truth about the founding of a legendary household name by the dream team of O Rahilly and his sidekick Ross Now currently cared for by Moore and his adoring and fawning admirer Camelot Camp James. Anyone who obfustycakes from my bible bashing ill will have to challenge my sidekick Micro Fone Admin who will suck his little finger and mince Oh shut that stable door, while I still have some GOODWILL left

Ted Rogers Swerving and Testing the Micro Fone 123

6/2/2020 08:36:30 pm

Is it just us or are there a lot of 2 spammers on here tightening the same old rusty bolts in their necks and then complaining they are deep throat choked?

Bolland and Holland and Purdy

6/2/2020 08:40:37 pm

The pecker head muzzle loaded chickens should have used Optibore chokes for deep satisfying long lasting shot penetration and spread

Shrinking Micro Fone Psychiatrist Admin

6/2/2020 08:47:49 pm

Great Stuff Bog Brush Bore. Have you got a U Bend or Red Tube link to assist this essential research into the blow me down I never jobs of the 208 station of the crossed fingers of the stars. Keep up the good work fowling up the toilet.

Contentious Plot

6/2/2020 08:58:48 pm

208 Weak Bladder Street. Conversation Central Club. The top banned frequency for discerning gentlemen with no taste buds left

Fred Bramlea

7/2/2020 02:54:57 pm

Your an idiot

David Hive

7/2/2020 07:42:18 pm

Back to the spelling bee again

James McGregor Queany Coffee Been

7/2/2020 08:10:06 pm

En Guard or all you unemployed Stokies will be working for the Royal mail van at Anguard Management. It's not Rich Mond Toto. It is no dear in the Festival Park. I've got nothing else to do so I might err no I won't I'll say nothing. LIAR That Lime and Apple 20/20 is so potent it impairs. Fascinating to hear that Kevin Turner has turned into a zombie. Mum says alkies love trigger words like annoyed and can't stand it and can't cope and I want and I need and it's all their fault. It is the defect in the user that they either cannot appreciate a difference in taste or find a cask that is or stop drinking at the last chance saloon full stop before their internal organs and speakers succumb to major irreversible internal failure

I am not sucking on a honeycomb while I write this. I am wearing it on my head. My swollen ankles and feet tell me there is something very wrong with my circulation and internal plumbing but sometimes we have to accept that turning on a radio dial is self inflicted. We do not NEED IT and No one made us do it. Three words that are divine I LOVE CAROLINE.

(happy)ling away had a nice half hour this morning with Barry James. Very undermentioned in his musical tastes I think. He hits the right consistent tempo without going ship to shore sentimental like some I could mention

(confused)Sorry if I have auctioned off some trigger words trigger for sale to the next highest bidder(smart)

(smile)(smile)(smile)(smile)(smile)(smile) CCC there is the answer to your original question. Kindly excuse I must take your leave and shore up Hadrians Horribalis Flame Walls elsewhere. Once more into the Capitol Breaches dear aching cartilage. A sleep perchance to dream...of unnecessary pretension and malice .. is not something that necessarily bothers the President PM

Barrymore

7/2/2020 08:16:29 pm

Please Susan boil Hagger and McGregor in my duck pond

Inspector Harry Callahan CID

7/2/2020 08:19:42 pm

Your Duck Pond is Stewart Admins Dead Pool

Dr Dave the House Martin Coroner

7/2/2020 08:25:53 pm

Being a highly experienced undertaker of engineering I can vouch that the baseball bat would have had to been highly trimmed and tuned to achieve resonance with the Ronan worshipping dead sheep floating in the water

North Sea Gas and Oil

7/2/2020 08:27:43 pm

If you see CID tell them

Marvin Haggler Brand

7/2/2020 08:29:36 pm

No, tell me first. I NEED to finish MY BOOKY WOOKY

David Long Wave

7/2/2020 08:32:28 pm

I just love the quintessential James McGregor Band

Mike Strimminator

7/2/2020 08:37:25 pm

That you for sharing David but please change the record. You and you and you and your friend can just wave bye bye

Password Protection

7/2/2020 08:43:43 pm

Arriving here sooner than you think

Garry Nixon Stevens

7/2/2020 08:59:06 pm

Not before time Sir I must say. Other boards have been stealing my staff and ideas for far too long

I will not lie two you. I am a legendary pirate radio Presswiget and still have some of my own congressional moderators left. Hare right at the Catchapalosi traffic lights. Do not play board monopoly with me you nancy boys. Free radio is not a game of chance. You are playing with the wrong man

RNI ATLANTIS NOVA

Slenderman

8/2/2020 12:43:43 am

Hi, tubers, I have done it. I walked in the woods and cracked a nut . I have found McGregor's dream red haired English woman. I claim my £5 and sole stabbing rights
https://youtu.be/UtuCn-YzzKI

MichaealKnightmightdoabit Ofdminsomeday

8/2/2020 02:17:16 am

Welcome new poster Slenderman. We are sorry to hear of your spinal tap the board difficulties and dental deficiencies that lead you to wander around the internet late at night like a lunar tick who has been hit with a hammer on the head and the consequent problems you have had influencing teenagers and forming meaningful relationships with employment or sex or indeed the mutual building society industry of both. We can see why "James?" identifies with this strange fish Samantha. He likes a girl with curvature but I think she got there first and stabbed him backstage at the DV8 physical theatre

However if he survived the sharp tongued attack he is on short notice from us, The Committee, that he is now uncomfortably exceeding the acceptable tolerances of our high speed limits. There is no way he is being clocked at 25+ and claiming just 5 or 7 of our boards very generous state benefits. If you do not hear from him tomorrow he is legally and officially dead. To get some sense of closure we offer our warmest congratulations on your amazing hunting Mr Salamander. If we let the chameleon live and thrive the revolutionary counter Marxist pig he is will continue to be a parasite and turn on brains to sponge.

Kind Regards
MightCall Adminbaywatch (Klaxon Amusement Park- Part Owner)
https://youtu.be/EVzxrLZ8TqI the need for speed
https://youtu.be/nehzckle-vA monkey tennis
https://youtu.be/WQ_wO0r16ww talking parrot
https://youtu.be/um1ym9u8XaA come up for air
https://youtu.be/e4E9yrGczbk Big Hug Bear

Catchpa Challenge

8/2/2020 02:20:09 am

Looking for the nutter on the bus was easy this morning

TESLA KITT KARR

8/2/2020 02:22:53 am

It usually is Michael

Mid Atlantic Film Critic

8/2/2020 08:31:20 am

Is this a trailer for Universal Trolls starring James McGregor and Mervyn Hagger cos if it is it they looks as bad as 2 girls on their moron cycles. Kindly exit the stage door you 2 and fight with handbags. You are both producing trailer park trash. Zero Stars Review

Legal Eagle

8/2/2020 09:42:19 am

T's & C's No.23. Use of Intellectual Property. In the mad Rush, has permission been obtained to use the logo?

Colonel Augustine Sparrow Hawk Tiger Moth. Arlington National Enquirer Cemetery Virginia USA

8/2/2020 10:17:45 am

Dear Sir, Being retired from the evil 5 star pentagon circle after wagging my old rooster Johnson at the Superbowl I was most concerned to read in the fog of the Whitewash Washington Post about The Town and Country Club? Sounds kinda unsavoury and most likely highly to be biased with un Amuurrican honest values. Is it the kinda Uropeein Union bar that would welcome Phillip Schofield as a member? We saved their peckers in the last big push to get rid of pinkos and commies and now all they do is strut around playing chase my candy ass

Lydia A Barista LLP

8/2/2020 10:29:41 am

OBJECTION YOUR HONOUR
This is clearly more slanderous supplication and suffocation from the intoxicating smell of the James McGregor Brand. If anyone ought to life in a State that reflects themselves he is the one who should give his address as Virginia.

Supremo Court Judge Malcolm Smith HND MBA LA

8/2/2020 10:36:50 am

COMPLETELY OVERRULED MSSSZZ COFFEPOT
On the grounds that the old bean is my mate and reads the news rather well.

COMPLETELY EXONERATED and is at liberty to return to Camelot Camp David

A doctor writes

8/2/2020 11:30:28 am

After studying his web site texts I am of the professional opinion that he is a remarkably sad and pathetic individual who is receiving an auto erotic thrill from suffocating obfuscation. The other one is a borderline personality, a pendulum swinging between genius and insanity. A complete wind up cuckoo clock. Lock them both up and throw away the key

James McGregor 33 runs and not called out

8/2/2020 12:06:42 pm

Well, here you have it. The opinion of medical science is that Mervyn and Malcolm should both share a secure room. Or maybe they do have a connecting door already. Remember the sheriffs promised book? What a surprise that would be if it was a tasteful relatively bombshell exposure increasing his credibility and hence that of the bloodline legacy even moore. Stranger things have happened. Watch this space.

Mid Atlantic Films A O'Rahilly Caroline Tribute Production Update

9/2/2020 04:35:51 am

The whatever the weather home page says yesterday, today and tomorrow we are all free over here coming out the underpass of of hate and extremely grateful for the very warm bloodline of helping us see the light, the soul, the hopes, the fears, tears and dreams of our founders message to us here on the ship and on the shore line. Never surrender, never give up. The baseline is we will rendevous again having amassed to share even more amazing tales of the world's greatest radio station ever. Sleep well, all our love. Further Mid Atlantic film updates from New York, Mayfair and Paris will follow on a daily basis. I have an idea that events will move quite quickly and for now we return you to our regular programmes, thank you.

The End

9/2/2020 08:05:26 am

Mike Wilson created an interesting Forum in which he presented new topics for discussion. But a handful of trolls who support a tiny and insignificant radio station decided that Mike Wilson's Forum for freedom is something dangerous that must be destroyed. Led by someone called James McGregor they have plastered this site with total rubbish as part of a concerted campaign. Mike Wilson's Forum is now dead.

James Mcgregor

9/2/2020 11:22:22 am

What a load of Nancy Paloni Baloni. "A concerted campaign". By jingle, top spook I am. Excuse me a message from the master on the God phone. He says I was not seen in church today.. Sorry God I will make up for it by laying more "slabs" of bible defence studies down on the free radio hating alter tomorrow

The Other End

9/2/2020 11:57:56 am

Yep, it's been well and truly Haggered.

New Mid Atlantic Films Unit

9/2/2020 11:00:38 am

We are now moving into public information films
We can see that certain people keep running off at the mouth and are heading on a collision course. PLEASE DRIVE CAREFULLY. That included you two horrors Hagger and McGregor. First and only warning.

The Two Flying Scotchmen

9/2/2020 11:14:47 am

What a slllluueeerr. We are both excellent drivers or my name is not Dustin Hoffman and his is not Rainman.https://youtu.be/2mZdMLKaU34

Paul Rusling link

22/2/2020 11:04:13 am

MH lies above thus: "In fact it is the single reason that Radio Caroline was planned and delivered, just check your Caroline Bible, it's all there! "

Clearly, MH can't read, as over a page of the Radio Caroline Bible is spent describing the FOUR (itemised and numbered) key reasons that Radio Caroline was started. This forum mashes each into one para, so I won't even try and format it here. In the interests of sharing research. In fact it is the single reason that Radio Caroline was planned and delivered, just check your Caroline Bible, it's all there! See the relevant page to the Radio Caroline Bible's web site - link on the Samples page,Then all can see how MHs' unfair comments about the book are so wide of the mark.

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