Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Alan Crawford initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. Unlicensed by any government for most of its early life, it was a pirate radio station that never became illegal as such due to operating outside any national jurisdiction, although after the Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 it became illegal for a British subject to associate with it.
John F. Kennedy, Caroline and JFK Jr. in the photograph that inspired the name of Radio Caroline.
The MV Mi Amigo, c. 1974, the home of Radio Caroline South from 1964 to 1967
MV Caroline
Emperor Rosko
Aodogán Ronan O'Rahilly was an Irish businessman best known for the creation of the offshore radio station, Radio Caroline. He also became manager of George Lazenby, who played James Bond in one film.
O'Rahilly in 1967