Days of Radio Caroline

Days of Radio Caroline

"Radio Caroline" - a true short story by Clive Warner, can be found HERE . The year is 1974, and the characters include reclusive  Irish millionaire Ronan O'Rahilly, George Harrison and friends, Harold Wilson,  Johnny Jason, Andy Archer, John B Mair and the late Tony Allan. A tale of  madness and rock music set in the gale-thrashed English Channel.

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Recruitment

It must have been September 1974, or thereabouts. For the last year - since  the start - I'd been working for Capital Radio, London's first commercial radio  station. That had all changed with the introduction of a new 'national  agreement' that had resulted in most of the engineers being downgraded in  status, pay, and conditions. It was time to move on.

The MI AMIGO radio ship [...].

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I accepted a one-year contract in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But the visa took forever to come through. Russ Tollerfield,  one of the engineers at Capital, knew I wanted 'out' and surprised me one day,  saying "Why don't you go to work for Radio Caroline until the Saudis sort out  your visa?"

I thought he was joking. He wasn't. Russ knew Ronan O'Rahilly, legendary  Irish Outlaw of the Aether, a good-looking rich batchelor who toured London in  his Range Rover; one of the 'in crowd' Ronan was always seen with the prettiest  debs and was a good friend of George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, the famous  Indian sitar player.

A few days later Russ said, "If you're interested, be at the Casserole  restaurant on King's Road, (Chelsea), at 6 o'clock."

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