The New Music Of A Once Upon A Time

The New Music Of A Once Upon A Time 

By Paul McCann

Once upon a time there were these pirate Radio stations like Radio Caroline and other radio stations like Radio Luxembourg that always provided a vehicle for new music to be broadcast and heard . 
Emerging bands like The Moody Blues with songs like Floating or A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harem . These new and interesting sounds took us all somewhere else in the days before music became a market place for the music industry with a commercial interest driven by the wheels of a money making machine . 
I loved how these pirate radio stations were able to bring out an alternative platform to present new music for its time 
People I knew would say , 
We love this new music around today “

It was different but good and even though some of it was so strange , it’s was all part of 
new music .
It was time for a change and it was something we all needed and loved a lot . There was nothing 
else that sounded the same as this new music we had got .
The lyrics made more sense , they were easy to hear and could relate to what the songs meant .
They helped us cast off our fears and they opened up our mind and our ears . 
New music lived for its day and set the fashion and created a passion that meant something unique . 
It had a lot of love and nothing was the same as the love we felt.
It never had aggression , there was no oppression to the sound and fed discovered a brand new dimension .
It was 1968 and we all listened to the peaceful sounds of silence beginning to appear in the mush scene . 

The hits on the charts were beginning to change with new songs like Children Of The Revolution by T-Rex and Look Wot You’ve Done by Slade .
Something about this new music echoed 
O was now in Australia just after interment was introduced and every week I got a letter from my friends in Belfast

Fo me I listened to Radio Caroline all the time with their music that was just so fine. It was like sunshine on the airwaves and a lifeline for me to enjoy every day .
The music filled my head with 
peace and love .
Tambourine Man , by Bob Dylan 
and All Right Now by Free . Scott Mc Kenzie’s song , if You’re Going To San Francisco really hit the right chord for many then other songs lines arrived like a rolling stone and it was Baby you’re out of time , or You Can’t do that and 
I feel fine and so on . They were all different and perfect for the time we lived in .
Radio Caroline did a fantastic job presenting songs that were rare , and good to hear . They were the songs of our time and I somehow 
miss them being around still .
You were the voice that we heard 
transmitting free , like a star in the night , shinning for us all . 
You showed a new way with music as a guide and you took us all along for the ride .
The End 

By Paul McCann