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He called himself Larry West, but that was not his family name.
At one time Larry, who sometimes reverted to referring to himself as Lawrence, which was his given name at birth, was our Texas business partner. When Larry attended meetings where business proposals were laid on the table for consideration, he would often turn his head to us and whisper: "SWTM?"
It was Larry's shorthand for cutting to the chase and asking: "So where's the money"?
Business ideas, as a saying goes, are a 'dime a dozen'.
But for a business proposal to be turned into action, someone, somewhere has to have enough money to begin the transformative process of turning worthless billowing hot air into a positively perpetuating bank account. If money is the medium, and music is the message, then we should pay attention to some lyrics.
Barry Gibb sang "words are all I have to take your heart way," while Elvis, or was it his manager Colonel Tom Parker (?) who sang "before I say I love you so, I want money, honey, uh uh ...."
In other words: no money, no music.
Years ago during the days of our friendship with Larry West, we encountered a very brief recording by comedian Steve Martin. He had a stand-up routine on a US television show, and on one skit he focused upon seeking answers from his audience.
He told them that "you can be a millionaire and never pay taxes. Then he quickly repeated his statement, and followed it up with a detailed explanation of what to tell the tax man about failing to pay the taxes on a million Dollars. The secret to the success of Steve Martin's skit was in the speed and timing of his delivery. What Steve Martin failed to do was explain to his audience how they could get a million Dollars. This is really the process by which the story of 'Radio Caroline' has been told over the years.
The first tests broadcasts from the radio ship 'Caroline' were made late on the evening of Friday, March 27, 1964, and they were followed by a transmission beginning at Noon the following day, which was a Saturday. The identity of the station was announced by 20 years old Stephen Christopher Moore from on board the ship.
At the age of 8, Moore had arrived in England with his mother at the Port of Southampton. They had board Cunard White Star liner 'Queen Elizabeth' at the Port of New York without his birth father. How Stephen Moore, who preferred to be known by his middle name of Chris, had originally came into contact with the 'Caroline' venture in 1964, needs to be explained in depth.
In 1990, a barrage of totally false information was unleashed upon the general public via the BBC-TV screening of an independently scripted show. It retroactively broadcast a totally false narrative about the 1964 creation of 'Radio Caroline', and the manuscript for that 1990 television program was tied to a 1990 book manuscript. In other words, what is now understood to have happened in 1964, is the result of a deliberate myth created in 1990, and therefore it is essential to separate the two storylines from each other because one is true and one is false. To do just that, is no simple task.
In 2013, an erstwhile local BBC disc jockey named Ray Clark, who was age 11 in 1964, decided to interview Ian Cowper Ross for a book that was published in 2014 with the title 'Radio Caroline: the true story of the boat that rocked'. However, that book by Ray Clark was anything but true, even though it was supposed to be a counterweight to the 2009 nonsense movie called 'The Boat that rocked'.
What Ray Clark did was pave the way for a load of rubbish to be then thrown on to the market in every kind of medium possible. All of it built upon the false narrative spun by Ian Cowper Ross with the latter embellishments of Ray Clark.
Therefore, in addition to revealing the factual story about the life of Stephen Christopher Moore, it is also necessary to document the actual life story of Ian Cowper Ross.
Then there is the advent of Ronan O'Rahilly.
He appeared in cameo within the same 1990 BBC-TV show as Ross and Moore, but O'Rahilly spun his own fictitious narrative about a musician named Georgie Fame, and that tied into the rubbish that mass media originally published about the 1964 advent of 'Radio Caroline', in 1964!
In the past we have tried to deal with these two seemingly parallel versions of the same story, one being true and the other one being false, in a simultaneous narrative, but this has not helped matters at all. If anything, it led to an even more cloudy, more obscure and more confusing narrative. In other words we played into the hands of the deceivers, only we were trying to find the truth in a totally fake story.
But then, was it totally untrue, or were elements of the true story woven into it? That is what we are now able to explain for the very first time. After many attempts to unscramble this mess, we will can now reveal the actual and factual account of how 'Radio Caroline' came into existence, why it came into existence, and in whose financial interests is it in 2023 to keep the public mystified and believing a lie?
We are finally able to unveil the lies and distortions spun by the fake story, and show why it was created, who created it and who financially gains from it today.
At one time Larry, who sometimes reverted to referring to himself as Lawrence, which was his given name at birth, was our Texas business partner. When Larry attended meetings where business proposals were laid on the table for consideration, he would often turn his head to us and whisper: "SWTM?"
It was Larry's shorthand for cutting to the chase and asking: "So where's the money"?
Business ideas, as a saying goes, are a 'dime a dozen'.
But for a business proposal to be turned into action, someone, somewhere has to have enough money to begin the transformative process of turning worthless billowing hot air into a positively perpetuating bank account. If money is the medium, and music is the message, then we should pay attention to some lyrics.
Barry Gibb sang "words are all I have to take your heart way," while Elvis, or was it his manager Colonel Tom Parker (?) who sang "before I say I love you so, I want money, honey, uh uh ...."
In other words: no money, no music.
Years ago during the days of our friendship with Larry West, we encountered a very brief recording by comedian Steve Martin. He had a stand-up routine on a US television show, and on one skit he focused upon seeking answers from his audience.
He told them that "you can be a millionaire and never pay taxes. Then he quickly repeated his statement, and followed it up with a detailed explanation of what to tell the tax man about failing to pay the taxes on a million Dollars. The secret to the success of Steve Martin's skit was in the speed and timing of his delivery. What Steve Martin failed to do was explain to his audience how they could get a million Dollars. This is really the process by which the story of 'Radio Caroline' has been told over the years.
The first tests broadcasts from the radio ship 'Caroline' were made late on the evening of Friday, March 27, 1964, and they were followed by a transmission beginning at Noon the following day, which was a Saturday. The identity of the station was announced by 20 years old Stephen Christopher Moore from on board the ship.
At the age of 8, Moore had arrived in England with his mother at the Port of Southampton. They had board Cunard White Star liner 'Queen Elizabeth' at the Port of New York without his birth father. How Stephen Moore, who preferred to be known by his middle name of Chris, had originally came into contact with the 'Caroline' venture in 1964, needs to be explained in depth.
In 1990, a barrage of totally false information was unleashed upon the general public via the BBC-TV screening of an independently scripted show. It retroactively broadcast a totally false narrative about the 1964 creation of 'Radio Caroline', and the manuscript for that 1990 television program was tied to a 1990 book manuscript. In other words, what is now understood to have happened in 1964, is the result of a deliberate myth created in 1990, and therefore it is essential to separate the two storylines from each other because one is true and one is false. To do just that, is no simple task.
In 2013, an erstwhile local BBC disc jockey named Ray Clark, who was age 11 in 1964, decided to interview Ian Cowper Ross for a book that was published in 2014 with the title 'Radio Caroline: the true story of the boat that rocked'. However, that book by Ray Clark was anything but true, even though it was supposed to be a counterweight to the 2009 nonsense movie called 'The Boat that rocked'.
What Ray Clark did was pave the way for a load of rubbish to be then thrown on to the market in every kind of medium possible. All of it built upon the false narrative spun by Ian Cowper Ross with the latter embellishments of Ray Clark.
Therefore, in addition to revealing the factual story about the life of Stephen Christopher Moore, it is also necessary to document the actual life story of Ian Cowper Ross.
Then there is the advent of Ronan O'Rahilly.
He appeared in cameo within the same 1990 BBC-TV show as Ross and Moore, but O'Rahilly spun his own fictitious narrative about a musician named Georgie Fame, and that tied into the rubbish that mass media originally published about the 1964 advent of 'Radio Caroline', in 1964!
In the past we have tried to deal with these two seemingly parallel versions of the same story, one being true and the other one being false, in a simultaneous narrative, but this has not helped matters at all. If anything, it led to an even more cloudy, more obscure and more confusing narrative. In other words we played into the hands of the deceivers, only we were trying to find the truth in a totally fake story.
But then, was it totally untrue, or were elements of the true story woven into it? That is what we are now able to explain for the very first time. After many attempts to unscramble this mess, we will can now reveal the actual and factual account of how 'Radio Caroline' came into existence, why it came into existence, and in whose financial interests is it in 2023 to keep the public mystified and believing a lie?
We are finally able to unveil the lies and distortions spun by the fake story, and show why it was created, who created it and who financially gains from it today.
Parasites, Players and Puppets
In order to make sense of this story it is necessary to know who the Players were, who the Puppets were, and who the Parasites are. The reason why nothing seems to be straightforward about this story, is because instead of clear-cut chronological biographies about the key people involved, readers have been confronted with a jumble-pile of events in which huge gaps have been left in the storyline, until now.
There are no shortages of so-called 'experts' who are willing to tell all and sundry, for a fee of course, their own interpretation of the story behind the creation of the original 'Radio Caroline', and not one of them is true. Their accounts now appear in a plethora of documentary programs, books and articles. The authors of those works of misdirection either do not understand the story, or, worse still, they are playing along with a gameplan that was intended to obfuscate any chance of understanding what the actual story really is. Here is a brief overview of the three groups. They were led by Players with a masterplan:
There are no shortages of so-called 'experts' who are willing to tell all and sundry, for a fee of course, their own interpretation of the story behind the creation of the original 'Radio Caroline', and not one of them is true. Their accounts now appear in a plethora of documentary programs, books and articles. The authors of those works of misdirection either do not understand the story, or, worse still, they are playing along with a gameplan that was intended to obfuscate any chance of understanding what the actual story really is. Here is a brief overview of the three groups. They were led by Players with a masterplan:
The Players were led by Charles Orr Stanley, who became Chairman of the Pye Group of Companies until 1966. It was Charles Orr Stanley who led a consortium to pressure the Crown GPO to issue licenses for independent radio and television stations. Stanley's raison d'être was that more stations would increase the need for more radio and television transmitters and related equipment that his companies manufactured.
He partially succeeded in his quest during 1954 when the Crown GPO licensed a shadow version of the BBC. It was called Independent TeleVision Authority (ITA), and it intended to cover the entire nation with alternative programming. ITA owned and operated all of the transmitter stations, but it franchised off exclusive geographical zones to programming contractors. They were limited to non-political and non-religious advertising sales in order to provide income and profit for their various companies. In comparison, BBC stations derived income from mandated receiver licenses bought by both radio listeners and television viewers.
While Charles Orr Stanley's campaign for additional television stations did succeed in generating a demand for more equipment, his quest for independent radio stations was a failure. He had created a Pressure Group to achieve his partial ITA success, and beginning in 1959, this same Pressure Group was revived in a new campaign to obtain GPO licenses for independent radio stations. Charles Orr Stanley worked with programming interests at 'Radio Luxembourg'; broadcasting interests on the Isle of Man and in the Republic of Ireland, before turning to create a de facto situation first with a model 'packaged' station called 'Radio Cambridge', and then, a few years later, with an offshore station known as 'Radio Caroline'.
The people who were paid to mislead seem to be still in business today, and their 'client' who is the beneficiary, seems to be the British Broadcasting Corporation. They are the Puppets:
The Puppets were led by Ronan O'Rahilly; Ian Cowper Ross and Stephen Christopher Moore was used and abused in the process. Ronan O'Rahilly trotted out the first cover-version of the story behind 'Radio Caroline'. Long after 'Radio Caroline' (1964-1967) had come and gone, others began to use that name to promote a hodge-podge operation using the same name but unconnected to the original 'Radio Caroline'. In 1990 the UK law was changed to bring back a form of the 'Hovering Acts' under the guise of broadcasting legislation. At that time Ian Cowper Ross, in conjunction with BBC interests, unleashed a totally fake account of the real 'Radio Caroline' which operated between 1964 and 1967. In its wake came a bevy of radio, television and print accounts, all based upon the fake 1990 story by Ian Cowper Ross.
The last category are still in business and led by academics with works supporting the legacy of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and a fake operation that calls itself 'Radio Caroline' which embraces the fake claims of Ronan O'Rahilly while denouncing him as a cheat and a fraud. The Parasites sought and still seek personal aggrandizement and financial gain:
The Parasites were scripted by Ian Cowper Ross who joined Ronan O'Rahilly during later attempts to use the name 'Radio Caroline', but he was pushed aside to promote a new venture with a UK Crown broadcasting license. It is being managed by an individual named Malcolm Smith, who calls himself Peter Moore, and is aided and abetted by a sometime BBC local broadcaster named Ray Clark who has become the main channel for pushing the fake story about 'Radio Caroline', in order to promote the non-related Malcolm Smith venture which is presently continuing to using that eponymous name.
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