Pirate radio was one of the most important things to ever happen to popular music. When Radio Caroline began broadcasting, very few had heard such a sound. This was the sound of youth culture. Playing everyone from Screamin’ Lord Sucth, The Detours (later on becoming The Who) and Pink Floyd, there is no arguing pirate radio is undeniably a turning point in popular music.
Now you turn on Radio 1 and you hear the same, nostalgic sounds of the current crop of guitar based bands. Alex Turner and Peter Doherty rule the airwaves, the latar being, some may say one of the more important song writers of the twenty first century. We have had The Beatles, we have had Bob Dylan, and we aren’t going to have another act like either of these any time soon. Or do we even need them?
The sound’s we have coming from our radio these days sadly aren’t as exciting as past years. Gone are the days of chart fighting on a Sunday evening whilst eating a roast round you’re grandmothers house.
Step up, whoever you are Music is an evolving sound. We don’t need another Libertines or Kooks. We need a visionary.
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