TIL that in the 1960s the BBC refused to play popular music for young people, which created the need for off-shore pirate radio stations

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/radio-reinvented/the-pirates/#:~:text=The%20first%2C%20Radio%20Caroline%2C%20had,up%20an%20audience%20of%20millions.

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