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25. Radio Caroline?! Seriously?

Thu May 12, 2016, 06:57 PM

May 2016

When I was a kid in England, that was THE station. I used to lay awake at night listening to them. I figured out how to take apart the old tube radio and connect one of those little what we would call earbuds today, and I could listen with no risk of my parents finding out i was listening to "rock and roll". Apparently that really used to piss Jesus off something fierce.

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