ShipRocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline Review

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(More customer reviews)Shiprocked: Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline offers a memoir by a Phantom FM DJ who spent years on Radio Caroline, the pirate radio ship. His life was full of storms, drama, and a pirate radio ship's struggle for survival. The station still runs today on satellite. Its heyday comes to life, here, in a lively read perfect for any general-interest collection.

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This witty, revealing memoir tells the story of the author's years spent as a broadcaster on a pirate radio ship for Radio Caroline. Radio Caroline was the iconic pirate radio station, immediately capturing the imagination of millions of people when it started broadcasting cutting-edge music to Britain and Ireland from international waters in 1964. When he first went out to the radioship, the Ross Revenge, in December 1985, Steve Conway was fulfilling his dream of working on Caroline. He soon became a vital part of Caroline's ship-board team, broadcasting music and news programs, helping to keep the vessel seaworthy during fierce storms, and making sure that the station ran smoothly on a shoestring budget, despite staffing problems, technical crises and harassment by the authorities.In this gripping memoir, Steve Conway tells of his time aboard the Ross Revenge: the excitement and danger of living on board ship for long spells, the constant challenge of keeping complex electronic equipment working in sometimes treacherous conditions and the camaraderie of working alongside people who, like him, were completely committed to the radio station. In the dramatic climax to the book, he tells of the sad demise of Radio Caroline as a ship-based station, and how he and his few remaining companions narrowly escaped drowning after the ship ran aground in hurricane-force winds. ""Fluidly written and idiosyncratic...""--Library Journal.

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