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Radio Invicta (London)

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Radio Invicta was a pirate radio station that broadcast in London from 1970 to 1984. Most of the time, Radio Invicta operated on VHF on 92.4 MHz. It used the slogans "Soul over London" and "Europe's first and only all soul station". Radio Invicta was the first UK station to play only soul music.[1][2][3]

A great many of the DJs on the soul, funk, and jazz-funk scenes at the time played on the station, including Froggy, Chris Hill, Steve Chandler, and Tony Johns. The station also would launch the careers of Steve Walsh, Gilles Peterson, and Pete Tong.

In 1974 up until 1977, the station broadcast solely on bank holidays. Eventually, it began broadcasting every Sunday night.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Radio Invicta - London pirate radio history - AM/FM". Amfm.org.uk. 17 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Radio Invicta: the genesis of black music radio in London .... still unfulfilled". Grant Goddard Radio Blog. 1 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Soul over London". Radioinvicta.com. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  4. ^ Kate Coyer; Tony Dowmunt; Alan Fountain (2007). The Alternative Media Handbook. Routledge. pp. 19–20. ISBN 978-0-203-82121-3. Retrieved 14 April 2020.