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RADIO WAVES
The story of the rise and fall of offshore radio and how it affected the music industry.

THE CHART ROOM
Radio Caroline Top 500 Tracks 1964-1984

  1. Imagine : John Lennon
  2. Stairway to heaven : Led Zeppelin
  3. All you need is love : Beatles
  4. Caroline : Fortunes
  5. Riders on the storm : Doors
  6. Layla : Derek & The Dominoes
  7. Nights in white satin : Moody Blues
  8. All along the watchtower : Jimi Hendrix
  9. Radar love : Golden Earring
  10. Free bird : Lynyrd Skynyrd
  11. A whiter shade of pale : Procul Harlem
  12. Angie : Rolling Stones
  13. Bohemian Rhapsody : Queen
  14. Baker Street : Gerry Rafferty
  15. Born to run : Bruce Springstein
  16. Rock 'n' roll : Status Quo
  17. Satisfaction : Rolling Stones
  18. Your song : Elton John
  19. House of the rising sun : Animals
  20. Hey Jude : Beatles
  21. Space oddity : David Bowie
  22. Peace : Peter
  23. Sultans of swing : Dire Straits
  24. Hotel California : Eagles
  25. Albatross : Fleetwood Mac
  26. Caroline : Status Quo
  27. All right now : Free
  28. Hurricane : Bob Dylan
  29. Follow you, follow me : Genesis
  30. Silver machine : Hawkwind
  31. Hey Joe : Jimi Hendrix
  32. Without you : Harry Nillson
  33. Bat out of hell : Meat Loaf
  34. Music : John Miles
  35. Shine on you crazy diamond : Pink Floyd
  36. Every breath you take : police
  37. Fool if you think it's over : Chris Rea
  38. Walk on the wild side : Lou Reed
  39. The dock of the bay : Otis Redding
  40. Bridge over troubles waters : Simon & Garfunkel
  41. Itchycoo park : Small Faces
  42. Do it again : Steely Dan
  43. Born to be wild : Steppenwolf
  44. If you leave me now : Chicago
  45. Mr Blue Sky : ELO
  46. Dreamer : Supertramp
  47. Candle in the wind : Elton John
  48. Maggie May : Rod Stewart
  49. I'm not in love : 10cc
  50. Vienna : Ultravox
  51. Telegraph Road : Dire Straits
  52. Stay with me till dawn : Judy Tzuke
  53. Won't get fooled again : Who
  54. Make it easy on yourself : Walker Brothers
  55. Living for the city : Stevie Wonder
  56. Wondrous stories : Yes
  57. Love and affection : Joan Armatrading
  58. Like a hurricane : Neil Young
  59. Wherever I lay my hat : Paul Young
  60. Jessica : Allmann Brothers Band
  61. Child of the universe : Barclay James Harvest
  62. Ventura Highway : America
  63. Good vibrations : Beach Boys
  64. Sorry seems to be the hardest word : Elton John
  65. Sound of silence : Simon & Garfunkel
  66. Sunny afternoon : Kinks
  67. A day in the life : Beatles
  68. Paranoid : Black Sabbath
  69. Don't fear the reaper : Blue Oyster Cult
  70. Heroes : David Bowie
  71. I don't like Mondays : Boomtown Rats
  72. Existence : Loving Awareness Band
  73. Strawberry fields forever : Beatles
  74. White room : Cream
  75. Money : Pink Floyd
  76. Wuthering heights : Kate Bush
  77. Go your own way : Fleetwood Mac
  78. Living in the past : Jethro Tull
  79. Hocus pocus : Focus
  80. The jean genie : David Bowie
  81. Waiting for a girl like you : Foreigner
  82. I got you babe : Sonny & Cher
  83. Make it with you : Bread
  84. Romeo & Juliet : Dire Straits
  85. Concrete and clay : Unit 4+2
  86. Pearl's a singer : Elkie Brooks
  87. You've lost that lovin' feelin' : Righteous Brothers
  88. Brown sugar : Rolling Stones
  89. Superstition : Stevie Wonder
  90. Sweet dreams are made of this : Eurythmics
  91. Another brick in the wall : Pink Floyd
  92. Horse with no name : America
  93. Heart of gold : Neil Young
  94. Love the one you're with : Stephen Stills
  95. Hot love : T Rex
  96. Go now : Moody Blues
  97. Yesterday : Beatles
  98. Heart of glass : Blondie
  99. Thriller : Michael Jackson
  100. I guess that's why they call it the blues : Elton John
  101. Love is the drug : Roxy Music
  102. Sailing : Christopher Cross
  103. You're so vain : Carly Simon
  104. Woman : John Lennon
  105. Black is black : Los Bravos
  106. It takes two : Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston
  107. California dreaming : Mamas & Papas
  108. Flowers in the rain : Move
  109. Total eclipse of the heart : Bonnie Tyler
  110. Life on Mars : David Bowie
  111. Let it be : Beatles
  112. Red red wine : UB40
  113. What a fool believes : Doobie Brothers
  114. Year of the cat : Al Stewart
  115. Have you seen her : Chi-lites
  116. Sara : Fleetwood Mac
  117. Wonderful Tonight : Eric Clapton
  118. With a little help from my friends: Joe Cocker
  119. Make me smile : Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
  120. Senses working overtime : XTC
  121. Owner of a lonely heart : Yes
  122. You make me feel brand new : Stylistics
  123. Lucky Man : Emerson Lake & Palmer
  124. A town called Malice : Jam
  125. Fame : David Bowie
  126. Penny Lane : Beatles
  127. Crocodile Rock : Elton John
  128. Me and Bobby McGee : Janis Joplin
  129. My generation : Who
  130. Hello goodbye : Beatles
  131. Get off my cloud : Rolling Stones
  132. The sun ain't gonna shine any more : Walker Brothers
  133. I go to sleep : Pretenders
  134. Walking on the moon : Police
  135. Battle of Evermore : Led Zeppelin
  136. Billy Jean : Michael Jackson
  137. Ball of confusion : Temptations
  138. She's not there : Zombies
  139. Three times a lady : Commodores
  140. No woman no cry : Bob Marley
  141. Child in time : Deep Purple
  142. Number 9 dream : John Lennon
  143. When will I see you again : Three Degrees
  144. Like a rolling stone : Bob Dylan
  145. If you could read my mind : Gordon Lightfoot
  146. Everybody's talkin' : Harry Nillson
  147. Something in the air : Thunderclap Newman
  148. Substitute : Who
  149. Light my fire : Doors
  150. Bend me shape me : Amen Corner
  151. Maneater : Darryl Hall & John Oates
  152. Lyin' eyes : Eagles
  153. Summer breeze : Isley Brothers
  154. Beat it : Michael Jackson
  155. Haitian divorce : Steely Dan
  156. Creeque alley : Mamas & Papas
  157. Purple haze : Jimi Hendrix
  158. At seventeen : Janis Ian
  159. My sweet Lord : George Harrison
  160. Elenore : Turtles
  161. Mr Tamborine Man : Byrds
  162. Love you to know : Loving Awareness Band
  163. Jealous guy : Roxy Music
  164. Samba pa ti : Santana
  165. Funeral for a friend : Elton John
  166. Let it grow : Eric Clapton
  167. If leaving me is easy : Phil Collins
  168. Waterloo sunset : Kinks
  169. Johnny & Mary : Robert Palmer
  170. We've got tonite : Bob Seger
  171. Don't go breaking my heart : Elton John & Kiki Dee
  172. The boxer : Simon & Garfunkel
  173. When a man loves a woman : Percy Sledge
  174. Lazy Sunday : Small Faces
  175. Oliver's army : Elvis Costello
  176. Badge : Cream
  177. Bad moon rising : Creedance Clearwater Revival
  178. Tainted love : Soft Cell
  179. Ride like the wind : Christopher Cross
  180. Come on Eileen : Dexy's Midnight Runners
  181. Goodbye yellow brick road : Elton John
  182. I heard it through the grapevine : Marvin Gaye
  183. Macarthur Park : Richard Harris
  184. Hungry heart : Bruce Springstein
  185. Tubular bells : Mike Oldfield
  186. Rockin' all over the world : Status Quo
  187. Nobody does it better : Carly Simon
  188. I'm Mandy, fly me : 10cc
  189. Lay lady lay : Bob Dylan
  190. Burlesque : Family
  191. Drift away : Dobie Gray
  192. The best of my love : Eagles
  193. Star : Earth, Wind & Fire
  194. L A woman : Doors
  195. Abacab : Genesis
  196. Catch the wind : Donovan
  197. Voodoo Chile : Jimi Hendrix
  198. Livin' thing : ELO
  199. Virginia Plain : Roxy Music
  200. Dreams : Fleetwood Mac
  201. I hear you knocking : Dave Edmunds
  202. Reach out, I'll be there : Four Tops
  203. Let's dance : David Bowie
  204. The pretender : Jackson Browne
  205. She's gone : Darryl Hall & John Oates
  206. My girl : Otis Redding
  207. If : Bread
  208. For what it's worth : Buffalo Springfield
  209. Private number : William Bell & Judy Clay
  210. Ruby Tuesday : Rolling Stones
  211. Words : Bee Gees
  212. For you : Judy Tzuke
  213. New year's day : U2
  214. Joanna : Scott Walker
  215. Caroline Goodbye : Colin Blunstone
  216. What is life? : George Harrison
  217. Man with the child in his eyes: Kate Bush
  218. Maybe I'm amazed : Paul McCartney & Wings
  219. It's different for girls : Joe Jackson
  220. Oxygene IV : Jean Michelle Jarre
  221. See Emily play : Pink Floyd
  222. Desperado : Eagles
  223. Just like a woman : Bob Dylan
  224. What becomes of the broken hearted?: Jimmy Ruffin
  225. Piano man : Billy Joel
  226. The joker : Steve Miller Band
  227. White rabbit : Jefferson Airplane
  228. I saw her again last night : Mamas & Papas
  229. Exerpt from a teenage opera : Keith West
  230. Lovely day : Bill Withers
  231. Heartbreak hotel : Elvis Presley
  232. Blue Monday : New Order
  233. No regrets : Walker Brothers
  234. Only you : Yazoo
  235. Chestnut mare : Byrds
  236. After midnight : J J Kale
  237. Royal bed bouncer : Kayak
  238. American pie : Don McLean
  239. Immigrant song : Led Zeppelin
  240. Mind games : John Lennon
  241. I'm coming out : Diana Ross
  242. Sylvia : Focus
  243. It's only rock'n roll : Rolling Stones
  244. The wind cries Mary : Jimi Hendrix
  245. Black magic woman : Santana
  246. Fade to grey : Visage
  247. Baby love : Supremes
  248. The Eton rifles : Jam
  249. All out of love : Air Supply
  250. Can't get enough : Bad Company
  251. While you see a chance : Steve Winwood
  252. You took the words right out of my mouth : Meat Loaf
  253. Bright eyes : Art Garfunkel
  254. Amoreuse : Kiki Dee
  255. Alice's restaurant massacre : Arlo Guthrie
  256. Smoke on the water : Deep Purple
  257. Exodus : Bob Marley
  258. The logical song : Supertramp
  259. Making plans for Nigel : XTC
  260. Come back and stay : Paul Young
  261. Groovin' : Young Rascals
  262. Bring on home to me : Animals
  263. Tracks of my tears : Smokey Robinson
  264. Time in a bottle : Jim Croce
  265. She loves you : Beatles
  266. Solsbury hill : Peter Gabriel
  267. Honey : Bobby Goldsboro'
  268. Positively 4th Street : Bob Dylan
  269. Fun, fun, fun : Beach Boys
  270. Race with the devil : Gun
  271. My cherie amour : Stevie Wonder
  272. Silly love songs : Paul McCartney & Wings
  273. Yours is no disgrace : Yes
  274. Medicine man : Barclay James Harvest
  275. Wishful thinking : China Crisis
  276. Hi-ho silver lining : Jeff Beck
  277. Guitar man : Bread
  278. Lawyers in love : Jackson Browne
  279. Something : Beatles
  280. Seasons in the sun : Terry Jacks
  281. Sailing : Rod Stewart
  282. Hanging on the telephone : Blondie
  283. Someone saved my life tonight : Elton John
  284. I just don't know what to do with myself : Dusty Springfield
  285. China girl : David Bowie
  286. Brass in pocket : Pretenders
  287. All the young dudes : Mott The Hoople
  288. The air that I breathe : Hollies
  289. Invisible sun : Police
  290. The first time ever I saw your face : Roberta Flack
  291. Sergeant Pepper : Beatles
  292. World : Bee Gees
  293. Jessie's girl : Rick Springfield
  294. She's out of my life : Michael Jackson
  295. Since you've been gone : Rainbow
  296. San Francisco : Scott McKenzie
  297. Southern man : Neil Young
  298. Cottonfields : Beach Boys
  299. Avalon : Roxy Music
  300. Love child : Dian Ross & Supremes
  301. She's leaving home : Beatles
  302. Afterglow : Genesis
  303. Classical gas : Mason Williams
  304. Lilac wine : Elkie Brooks
  305. Rikki don't lose that number : Steely Dan
  306. Honky tonk woman : Rolling Stones
  307. Killer queen : Queen
  308. Rose of Cimarron : Poco
  309. Blue : Joni Mitchell
  310. Help : Beatles
  311. Visions : Stevie Wonder
  312. Suicide : Barclay James Harvest
  313. Breakfast in America : Supertramp
  314. Man of the world : Fleetwood Mac
  315. Who are you? : Who
  316. Wild is the wind : David Bowie
  317. Rocket man : Elton John
  318. Ben : Michael Jackson
  319. Moody blue : Elvis Presley
  320. Army dreamers : Kate Bush
  321. Welcome to the machine : Pink Floyd
  322. 25 or 6 to 4 : Chicago
  323. Do you really want to hurt me? : Culture Club
  324. The vibes inside : Loving Awareness Band
  325. On the road again : Canned Heat
  326. Sebastian : Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
  327. Suzanne : Leonard Cohen
  328. Forever autumn : Justin Hayward
  329. Where do you go to my lovely? : Peter Sarstedt
  330. California saga : Beach Boys
  331. Diary : Bread
  332. America : Simon & Garfunkel
  333. I shot the sheriff : Eric Clapton
  334. Telephone line : Electric Light Orchestra
  335. Elected : Alice Cooper
  336. Alone again, or : Love
  337. Take the money and run : Steve Miller Band
  338. Call me : Blondie
  339. I started a joke : Bee Gees
  340. It's all over now : Rolling Stones
  341. You can't hurry love : Phil Collins
  342. We're all alone : Rita Coolidge
  343. Time : Pink Floyd
  344. Roxanne : Police
  345. The killing of Georgie : Rod Stewart
  346. Ravine : Genesis
  347. Mull of Kintyre : Paul McCartney & Wings
  348. Sound and vision : David Bowie
  349. Steppin' out : Joe Jackson
  350. Saturday night's all right for fighting : Elton John
  351. I'm still waiting : Diana Ross
  352. Everlasting love : Love Affair
  353. Brown eyed girl : Van Morrison
  354. Carey : Joni Mitchell
  355. Innocent man : Billy Joel
  356. Starting over : John Lennon
  357. Proud Mary : Creedence Clearwater Revival
  358. Miracles : Jefferson Starship
  359. Crime of the century : Supertramp
  360. American tune : Paul Simon
  361. Arnold Layne : Pink Floyd
  362. Lola : Kinks
  363. The times they are a-changin' : Bob Dylan
  364. Waiting on a friend : Rolling Stones
  365. PS - I love you : Beatles
  366. I wish : Stevie Wonder
  367. Living on an island : Status Quo
  368. Oh well : Fleetwood Mac
  369. All my love : Led Zeppelin
  370. Alison : Elvis Costello
  371. You're my best friend : Queen
  372. Cortez the killer : Neil Young
  373. My ship is coming in : Walker Brothers
  374. Reeling in the years : Steely Dan
  375. The river : Bruce Springstein
  376. I am the walrus : Beatles
  377. Hello big man : Carly Simon
  378. Marrakesh express : Crosby, Stills & Nash
  379. My old man : Joni Mitchell
  380. Fly like an eagle : Steve Miller Band
  381. December 63 (oh, what a night) : Four Seasons
  382. Rhainnon : Fleetwood Mac
  383. Ebony & ivory : Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
  384. Give me the night : George Benson
  385. Pinball wizard : Who
  386. One day in your life : Michael Jackson
  387. He ain't heavy, he's my brother : Hollies
  388. Respect : Aretha Franklin
  389. Wishing well : Free
  390. Upside down : Diana Ross
  391. Back in New York city : Genesis
  392. Down the dustpipe : Status Quo
  393. Wishing on a star : Rose Royce
  394. The last time : Rolling Stones
  395. Need your love so bad : Fleetwood Mac
  396. Give peace a chance : John Lennon
  397. Question : Moody Blues
  398. Moondance : Van Morrison
  399. Walk on by : Dionne Warwick
  400. Sabre dance : Love Sculpture
  401. Down under : Men at work
  402. One day I'll fly away : Randy Crawford
  403. Happy together : Turtles
  404. Stay with me baby : Lorraine Ellison
  405. Tangled up in blue : Bob Dylan
  406. Eye in the sky : Alana Parsons Project
  407. Don't leave me now : Pink Floyd
  408. Give me love, give me peace on earth : George Harrison
  409. Band on the run : Paul McCartney & Wings
  410. You've got your troubles : Fortunes
  411. Rescue me : Fontella Bass
  412. Because the night : Patti Smith Group
  413. Gimme some lovin' : Spencer Davis Group
  414. Until you come back to me : Aretha Franklin
  415. Still crazy after all these years : Paul Simon
  416. Pictures of matchstick men : Status Quo
  417. Sha la la la lee : Small Faces
  418. Celluloid heroes : Kinks
  419. Moonlight shadow : Mike Oldfield & Maggie Riley
  420. Tunnel of love : Dire Straits
  421. Rock'n'roll is king : Electric Light Orchestra
  422. Monday, Monday : Mamas & Papas
  423. Strange brew : Cream
  424. Temptation : Heaven 17
  425. You didn't have to be so nice : Lovin' Spoonful
  426. Rubber Bullets : 10CC
  427. Streets of London : Ralph McTell
  428. Let's go to Sn Francisco : Flower Pot Men
  429. Peaceful easy feeling : Eagles
  430. Supergirl : Graham Bonney
  431. Truckin' : Grateful Dead
  432. Love won't let me wait : Major Harris
  433. Watching and waiting : Moody Blues
  434. Say a little prayer : Aretha Franklin
  435. Maggie's farm : Bob Dylan
  436. Carry on : Crosby, Stills & Nash
  437. Cinderella Rockefella : Esther & Abi Ofarim
  438. Comfortably numb : Pink Floyd
  439. Down down : Status Quo
  440. Best of both worlds : Robert Palmer
  441. Pretty Woman : Roy Orbison
  442. I heard it through the grapevine : Creedance Clearwater Revival
  443. Run for home : Lindisfarne
  444. Pinball : Brian Protheroe
  445. I saw the light : Todd Rundgren
  446. Those were the days : Mary Hopkins
  447. Its good news week : Hedgehoppers Anonymous
  448. Knock on wood : Eddie Floyd
  449. The green manalishi : Fleetwood Mac
  450. Johnny B Goode : Jimi Hendrix
  451. Eve of destruction : Barry McGuire
  452. Heaven can wait : Meatloaf
  453. Love over gold : Dire Straits
  454. A hard rain's gonna fall : Bob Dylan
  455. Whole lotta love : Led Zeppelin
  456. Macho city : Steve Miller Band
  457. Higher and higher : Moody Blues
  458. School's out : Alice Cooper
  459. Rock me baby : George McCrae
  460. Message in a bottle : Police
  461. I'm still waiting : Diana Ross
  462. Do ya think I'm sexy? : Rod Stewart
  463. Blackberry way : Move
  464. First cut is the deepest : P P Arnold
  465. Spirits : Bee Gees
  466. Hit me with your rhythm stick : Ian Dury
  467. Metal guru : T Rex
  468. Sundown : Gordon Lightfoot
  469. Rat trap : Boomtown Rats
  470. WOLD : Harry Chapin
  471. Midnight train to Georgia : Gladys Knight & The Pips
  472. The hustle : Van McCoy
  473. Let's stay together : Al Green
  474. Sing baby sing : Stylistics
  475. Band of gold : Freda Payne
  476. Moonlighting: Leo Sayer
  477. Just a smile : Pilot
  478. Autobahn : Kraftwerk
  479. Ice in the sun : Status Quo
  480. Both sides now : Judy Collins
  481. From the underworld : Herd
  482. Time passages : Al Stewart
  483. I wanna stay with you : Gallagher & Lyle
  484. The days of Pearly Spencer : David McWilliams
  485. Matthew & Son : Cat Stevens
  486. On my way back home : New Riders of the Puple Sage
  487. Netherlands : Dan Fogelberg
  488. Teach your children : Crosby Stills Nash & Young
  489. Jesus is just alright : Doobie Brothers
  490. What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? : Brinsley Schwartz
  491. The wanderer : Dion
  492. As tears go by : Marianne Faithfull
  493. Ma Baker : Boney M
  494. So you win again : Hot Chocolate
  495. Ruby, don't take your love to town : Kenny Rogers
  496. Lightnin' strikes : Lou Christie
  497. I feel love : Donna Summer
  498. Why can't we live together : Timmy Thomas
  499. Me and Mrs Jones : Billy Paul
  500. Midnight at the oasis : Maria Muldour


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