Movie Review: Pirate Radio

A mere 40 years ago rock and roll was all but banned on British airwaves. Other than a few hours a week on the BBC, the only way to hear tunes from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, and other trailblazing artists on the radio in the mid-'60s was to tune in to pirate radio. Bunked in a ship off the coast of England, a batch of rebel deejays served up rock and roll 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to listeners who would otherwise have had to go without.

Now writer/director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill) has taken that era of pirate radio and used it as fodder for a music-filled tale of sex, almost no drugs, and rock and roll in Pirate Radio (also known as The Boat That Rocked). Read On...

More on Pirate Radio:

• Talulah Riley on '60s Music, '60s Clothing and Pirate Radio
  
• Pirate Radio Photos

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