KISS Pirate Enterprise
Cynthia Rose, Sunday Correspondent, 29 April 1990
The duties of KISS pirate radio DJs once included rigging rooftop transmitters and guarding the door. Now Saatchis are telling them: "Your account is worth more than a million smackers to us." Cynthia Rose tracks the lead-up to the legal launch this August.
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