Radio Caroline without doubt changed British radio broadcasting for ever. The station came on air easter 1964 from a ship anchored 4 miles off the essex coast. Within weeks it was joined by other pirate stations and for the next 3 years the air around Britain was filled with magic. The British government banned the pirate stations in august 1967 but Radio Caroline continued until it ran out of money and closed down at 5.21am on Sunday March 3rd 1968.

Then...... in 1972 the ship was bought by a boutique owner from the Hague who took it out to sea, anchored off of the Dutch coast, refitted it..... and turned it on!

It is debatable as to what the "recreated" Radio Caroline was trying to achieve. To pay its way the daytime airtime from 6am until 7pm was sold to a Belgian company who pre recorded programmes on land so in the daytime the station was called Radio Mi Amigo.

Caroline, when I was there was an evening station and I could and maybe one day will tell some interesting stories abouth those crazy days!

I was on board in the summer of 1973 when my first job was to scrape the paint off the walls in the toilets and showers!

I rejoined again in January 1974 and stayed until the end of August when the Dutch government banned the pirate stations operating from the Dutch coast.

After I left I never again listened to it.

What would have been the point?

Life moves on.

It is all now just a distant memory.

I was so much older then.......... I'm younger than that now.