Chris Cary's first wife writes pirate radio memoir

Chris Cary’s first wife Kate has written a book about the former Radio Nova boss’ formative pirate radio years, The DJ From The Boat That Rocked My World.
Operating under the nom de studio of Spangles Muldoon, Cary helped Ronan O’Rahilly refloat Radio Caroline in 1972 and then went on to work for Radio Northsea International and Radio Luxembourg.
The tome also deals with the setting up of the Comp Shop, which made Chris one of the UK’s first computer millionaires and his selling of pirate Sky de-coder cards, which earned him four years in prison when Rupert Murdoch failed to appreciate his entrepreneurial cunning. Slade, Deep Purple, The Move and Pink Floyd all cameo in what is a stranger than fiction tale.
Shortly before passing away in 2008, Cary attended the Hot Press Music Show where he recalled Nova’s domination of the Dublin market in the ‘80s and some of the people – Declan Meehan, Gareth O’Callaghan, David Harvey, Chris Barry, Greg Gaughran, Bryan Dobson, John Clarke and Ken Hammond among them – who got their big break working for the FM superpirate.
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