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Kiss Fm: The Inside Story of a London Pirate Radio Station's Path to Success: from Radical Radio to Big Business

Kiss Fm: The Inside Story of a London Pirate Radio Station's Path to Success: from Radical Radio to Big Business

The first book to document the long struggle of London pirate radio for a legal black music station, started by Radio Invicta in 1970

2011

Stories

LBC 97.3 FM, London’s whitest conversation? : 2007 : ‘Is Radio Racist?’, The Radio Academy

The conversation at the Radio Academy event in London entitled ‘Is Radio Racist?’ became heated when the chairman, ‘ LBC’ morning show…

Nov 14

LBC 97.3 FM, London’s whitest conversation? : 2007 : ‘Is Radio Racist?’, The Radio Academy

Nov 14

My application wins our tiny black music pirate station a valuable London-wide radio licence …

It was only just daylight when I suddenly realised that the phone was ringing. It seemed to take me ages to drag my weary body out of bed…

Sep 29

Sep 29

The customer is always “a crazy, crazy man” : 2000 : Indian Consulate visa office, Toronto

India? I might have loved the 1980 song of that name by ‘ The Psychedelic Furs’ but had never entertained going there. Then an email…

Sep 9

The customer is always “a crazy, crazy man” : 2000 : Indian Consulate visa office, Toronto

Sep 9

Congratulations on the birth of music genre ‘world music’! : 1987 : The Empress of Russia, London

WORLD MUSIC? The phrase is used with such regularity by the media in recent times that you might think the term had existed forever. But ‘…

Aug 27

Congratulations on the birth of music genre ‘world music’! : 1987 : The Empress of Russia, London

Aug 27

Caribbean drubbing on such an “Armageddon-like” day : 2024 : Hurricane Beryl, Carriacou

“Clackety-clack clackety-clack, from Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back!”

Jul 30

Caribbean drubbing on such an “Armageddon-like” day : 2024 : Hurricane Beryl, Carriacou

Jul 30

Teach your children well? : 1960s-1970s : vegetable-free adolescence, Camberley

“How often do you wash your face?” asked the doctor.

Jul 5

Teach your children well? : 1960s-1970s : vegetable-free adolescence, Camberley

Jul 5

… and the award for car-crash Olympic flame live TV coverage goes to … : 2024 : La Premiere…

1995. The evening weatherwoman was standing in front of a wall map of the nation, reading the forecast for tomorrow’s conditions. In her…

Jun 26

… and the award for car-crash Olympic flame live TV coverage goes to … : 2024 : La Premiere…

Jun 26

The genesis of black music radio in London … still unfulfilled : 1970–1984 : Radio Invicta 92.4

I only knew ‘Roger Tate’ (real name Bob Tomalski) through listening to his programmes on the radio. He was a DJ on ‘ Radio Invicta’…

May 30

The genesis of black music radio in London … still unfulfilled : 1970–1984 : Radio Invicta 92.4

May 30

Sacked by a boss desperate to steal my success : 1991 : Gordon McNamee, KISS 100 FM, London

It was a little after seven o’clock in the morning when the phone rang. Normally, I would already have been out of bed by that hour on a…

May 22

Sacked by a boss desperate to steal my success : 1991 : Gordon McNamee, KISS 100 FM, London

May 22

Welcome to the terrordome : 2006 : Enders Analysis at Denton Wilde Sapte, City of London

The first of April proved not such an innocuous date on which to have started my new job. Within weeks, I began to wonder if I was the…

May 17

Welcome to the terrordome : 2006 : Enders Analysis at Denton Wilde Sapte, City of London

May 17

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