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The Boat That Rocked (titled Pirate Radio in North America [5]) is a 2009 comedy-drama written and directed by Richard Curtis about pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. The film has an ensemble cast consisting of Philip Seymour Hoffman , Bill Nighy , Rhys Ifans , Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh .
The following is a list of bands and artists which have been described as belonging to yacht rock. Yacht rock. 10cc [1] Ace [2] [1] Airplay [3] [4] Air Supply [1]
With a crew of some 30, Elettra was able to sail long distances without needing to refuel; in 1922 she first crossed the Atlantic to New York, surviving the effects of a severe storm. [15] An important crew member was the radio officer, Adelmo Landini, who was known as the 'marconista', the Italian term equivalent to 'sparks' in English. [16]
The term yacht rock did not exist contemporaneously with the music the term describes, [6] which was produced from 1975 to 1984. [7] [8] It refers to "adult-oriented rock" [6] or "West Coast Sound", [4] [3] which became identified with yacht rock in 2005, when the term was coined in J. D. Ryznar et al.'s online video series of the same name.
The Ship That Rocked the World: How Radio Caroline Defied the Establishment, Launched the British Invasion, & Made the Planet Safe for Rock & Roll. Tom Lodge. Bartleby Press. Austin, Texas 2010 ISBN 978-0-910155-82-3 – The story of Radio Caroline in the 1960s by one of its foremost DJs. Radio Caroline: The True Story of the Boat that Rocked ...
Thirty-five thousand by land and more by sea when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band hit the Asbury Park beach on Sunday, Sept. 15.
A rock formation in the Mississippi River normally only reachable by boat is accessible by foot for the second year in a row as water levels plummet.
HMS Tristram – submarine in His Majesty's U-Boat by Douglas Reeman, 1973; HMS Tynecastle – frigate in Trapp and World War Three by Brian Callison, 1988; U-174 – Kriegsmarine U-boat, Fatherland by Robert Harris, 1992; U-246 – Kriegsmarine U-boat in Away Boarders! by J._E._Macdonnell, 1962 (There was a real, unrelated U-246)