Pearce Reginald Hartley Calvert[1][2] (1928[3] – 21 June 1966)[4] was an English artist manager, born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England.
They had a summer of fun, but when Sutch decided to return to performing, Reg Calvert carried on, renamed it Radio City, and put it onto a more professional footing.
[6] Calvert was shot and killed by Oliver Smedley, the former owner of a rival offshore station, Radio Atlanta, who was later acquitted of murder on the grounds of self-defence.
[7] Calvert then embarked on a career as a music manager, and set about assembling a stable of young musicians, who would tour the country and play the hits of the day, while imitating the looks and style of the popular stars of the time.
[8] In 1961, Calvert bought Clifton Hall, a former stately home near Rugby, Warwickshire as a base for his operations, where he assembled, created and managed an array of bands.
These included Danny Storm, Buddy Britten, The Fortunes, Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, and Robbie Hood And His Merrie Men.
[7][8] Calvert established the pirate station Radio City,[9] which broadcast from a Second World War marine fort off the Kent coast, seven miles from Margate.
[citation needed] Smedley's response was to hire a group of riggers, who boarded Radio City on 20 June and put the station's transmitter out of action.
[citation needed] On 21 June, Calvert visited Smedley's home at Wendens Ambo, Essex, to request the removal of the raiders and the return of vital transmitter parts.
[13] Radio City stopped broadcasting after Calvert's wife Dorothy, whom he had married in 1946,[15] appeared in court charged under the older Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949, because the station was sited within the 3-mile (5 km) limit.