Pirate Radio a movie

Well, it looks like I picked the English version of "Pirate Radio".

We watched this the other evening - now if you know me well, you know that I do not use/nor care for the "F" word, this film has its share of it. On the other hand, the music in Pirate Radio is from my junior and senior high school years, and it brought back so many memories. The setting is just off the English coast, during the 60's, when it was "forbidden" to play "rock and roll" music on English broadcast radio, based on actual events. A "wild and woolly" group of pirate dj's get together and broadcast "rock and roll" 24 hours a day. It would appear that half of England listened to their broadcasts on a daily basis.

Some of the cast are quite notable for other types of movies, Philip Seymour Hoffman was really great as the ex-patriot American "the Count", Emma Thompson as the inebriated mother "Charlotte", Bill Nighy as the skipper "Quentin", Rhys Ifans as "Gavin", and the real kicker Kenneth Branagh as "Sir Alistair Dormandy" who looked like a British version of Hitler......

They must have a had a really great time making this one.

So, if you are of the '60's generation, this movie has great music - sort of an English version of "American Graffiti".