How did Piccadilly change the UK radio landscape?
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Piccadilly Radio Philip Birch founded Piccadilly Radio in Manchester after managing pirate station Radio London
One morning in April 1974, Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys was faded up and, with it, Greater Manchester's newest radio station was born. Piccadilly Radio 261 went on to become a Mancunian institution and one of the most popular news, music and entertainment radio stations in the UK. The city's first independent radio station, which joined the airwaves four years after BBC Radio Manchester, helped launch the careers of broadcasters Andy Peebles, Chris Evans and BBC Radio Manchester's Becky Want and Mike Sweeney.
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