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Rock Pirates

Rock with humor

Living for the Rock and Roll

Ricardo Martínez García

The existence of radio in the world of rock is as necessary as water for life. According to the tape of Richard Curtis Rock The Boat ( The Boat That Rocked, 09), in Britain in 1966, the pop rock that was "at its highest point, BBC official radio empire, only programmed a few minutes of rock and roll day. The emergence and blossoming of pirate radio was the solution to this need of the soul of music, especially rock.

With a cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh, the film shows moments of joy and dancing household full of such moments underground daily in incurred by listeners to tune the pirate station Radio Rock mounted on a ship anchored in the North Sea off the British jurisdiction, but near the heart and the taste of the population.

Somewhat comical, the film observes a certain need for control by the British government officials on the radio, especially Radio Rock, whose High ratings are due to the wide variety of speakers and their styles, ranging from profanity and sexual mischief more acidic, to an almost expressionless D'J with the sexy, velvety voice.

With a script written by the Curtis, author of the screenplay of films like Bridget Jones's Diary and Beanfield Notting Hills, and television series Mr. Bean , this entertaining film is fun thanks to the phlegmatic and ingenious British way of joking for most of the protagonists, as the star speaker Gavin Kavanagh (Rhys Ifans), the station manager Quentin (Bill Nighy) and the "doctor" Dave (Nick Frost) and Duke (Hoffman), although the U.S. is not at odds at all.

The tape has a first-line music of whose songs deserve special mention, since they show an entire golden age of pop rock from a wide spectrum, from hard rock of The Who ( My generation), The Animals (House of the rising sun), Jimmy Hendrix (The Wind Cries Mary) and The Kinks (All day and all of the night), through the Romantic Soul full of groups like The Supremes (The Happening ), The Isley Brothers (This old heart of mine) or Smokey Robinson and The Miracles (Ooo baby baby) until rolas classic bands like The Box Tops (The letter), Tommy James and the Shondells (Crimson and Clover), The Moody Blues (Nights in White Satin). Do not stop watching it.