In The Days Before Rock 'N' Roll - Van Morrison & Paul Durcan video free download

Robin Waltham

One of my all time favorites!!!!

KrackowKid

Why did they let the Goldfish go ?

Charles W

Thank you GreenBadger and R R Rubin & J Hooton - spent some evenings in the 60s in Europe searching the bands for Luxembourg but Caroline was more popular - Pirate Radio -- paid for by advertising for various British football betting schemes -- perhaps earlier it was betting on ponies per Van's lyrics. Great, evocative music as always from Van!

oreilly4oreilly

wireless yearless do you remember jem 

Edmund Vitale

Who's Justin???

paul muldoon

I'm too young to have been around and actually know of the radio references on this song but listening to Van's voice just transports you to that time..I was introduced to van Morrison by an older fella I worked with who was a bit of an ageing hippy but what a voice, Pure musical genius.

R. R. Rubin

Justin was THE man to open Europe up to Rock and Roll..Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly. Unlicensed by any government for most of its early life, it was a pirate radio station which only became formally illegal in 1967.I was living in Europe 1966--67, and shit man, i was working those wireless knobs---so i could hear all those artists that Van the man listened to...

John Hooton

This song takes me back to when I was a 12 year old boarding school boy back in 1958 with my friend Simon Betts. We both hunched over the old valve radio every night in the library at about 8:00pm, trying to get a few tunes from radio Luxembourg by twiddling the tuner knob while songs faded in and out as the waves skipped off the ionosphere. A few songs before bed at 9:00pm. We wrote to Beryl Reid and requested ‘All in the Game’ by Tommy Edwards. She didn't have it but played us ‘Basin Street Blues’ instead. One of my happier school memories in the days before rock ’n’ roll.

Peter Piper

Sorry Rob, the reference to Justin is not with regards to Seamus Justin Heaney!

Janice Roseingrave

Sorry....for posting!

Janice Roseingrave

Just absolutely fantastic. Many thanks forosting!

R. R. Rubin

wrong knob, Rob

R. R. Rubin

Many people ask "who is/was Justin"? This is a reference to the pioneer Irish businessman Ronan O'rahilly who brought Pirate Radio to UK/Europe via Radio Caroline.The words "climb aboard" refer to him getting the station underway back in the 1960's when, in the UK there was no rock and roll played on the radio.

King Wasp

Where did this come from? Haha

King Wasp

Where did this comrade from ?

brendan hayes

Amazing: the squall of bleep and white noise on the short-wave: I was listening to the sound of the 'Big Bang'...and nascent sounds of 'dance music'...

sweetsensationmusik

very good song , yes i live in athlone , i listened to radio luxemburg , in the hills at the back of my house looking over the river shannon in one distance and the slieve bloom mountains in the other i sang to all that songs and in the end i did play all the best venues in the world , as a musicain it inspired me this song ,

Rob Noxious

Playing this today following the sad news about the passing of Seamus Justin Heaney, the 'Justin' of this song reportedly.

KrackowKid

He should do more songs like this

RUDI UK

Love the 'music centre'

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