The pirate radio era of England is fascinating.
The Who Sell Out, paid tribute to the pirate stations, complete with ads in between the songs. It’s still my favorite Who album.
I find that album a little tough to listen to. Their pirate radio mimicking takes me out of the album early, but then when I get used to it they drop it. But there is a lot of good stuff on there, it just suffers structurally. But it does show who these pirate stations got big enough to get advertising, like big deal advertising. Mostly American cause what do they care about British laws.
I’ll also recommend the movie The Boat That Rocked, very fun movie, great soundtrack.