Christopher Moore (16 April 1940 – 2 January 2021) was a co-founder of the
offshore pirate radio
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In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are received—especially w ...
ship
Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly and Alan Crawford initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. ...
, and the first voice to be heard on the air from that station. His opening words were "This is Radio Caroline on 199, your all-day
music station
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".
The first song played on Radio Caroline was by the
Rolling Stones
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. At its peak in 1967, the station had millions of listeners, and it revolutionised
radio broadcasting
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in the
UK. In 1991, Moore was interviewed extensively for the
BBC TV
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A Pirate's Tale where he described his key role in detail.
Moore is a member of the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. Moore, who had variously been a
club DJ
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,
merchant naval steward, and photographer, had become involved in Radio Caroline when he met the station's founder,
Ronan O'Rahilly
Aodogán Ronan O'Rahilly (21 May 1940 – 20 April 2020) was an Irish businessman best known for the creation of the offshore radio station, Radio Caroline and the band Sheep On Drugs. He also became manager of George Lazenby, who played James ...
. Moore's Chelsea flatmate, Ian Ross (later a
novel
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ist), introduced O'Rahilly to his father, New Zealand-born Charles Ross, who in turn helped O'Rahilly raise the £250,000 needed to start what became Britain's first pirate radio station in April 1964.
Although Moore was the first voice to be heard on Radio Caroline, the first programme was hosted by
Simon Dee
Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd (28 July 1935 – 29 August 2009), better known by his stage name Simon Dee, was a British television interviewer and radio disc jockey who hosted a twice-weekly BBC TV chat show, ''Dee Time'', in the late 1960s. Aft ...
, who subsequently became a TV chat show host of Dee Time on the
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Moore died on 2 January 2021 at the age of 80.