This one-sheet for Pirate Radio is hilarious, I love it. If anyone was around during the time when producers took over the radio airwaves and became independent of the conservative suits, you know if was a great time for radio – longer songs on the airwaves and wild activities, bringing the next generation out of control.

Pirate Radio is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music.

The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing Rock n Roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down. The band of rebels is lead by The Count, played by the Academy Award Winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, Quentin the boss of Radio Rock, Gavin the greatest DJ in Britain, Midnight Mark, Doctor Dave and Young Carl who comes of age amidst the chaos of sex, drugs and rock n roll.

The film features an unbelievable selection of music including The Beatles, The Stones, Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, David Bowie, Otis Redding, Cat Stevens just to name a few. The film is laugh out loud funny and speaks to the rock n roll rebel in all of us.  I’d love to have this soundtrack!

Richard Curtis is the director.  Does his name sound familiar?  Of course, he directed Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually.