Paul McCartney at the MTV European music awards Liverpool _460
STARS including Sir Paul McCartney, Rhys Ifans, Gemma Arterton, Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy turned out last night for the world premiere of The Boat That Rocked.
A red carpet wound through the middle of London’s Leicester Square as women dressed in skimpy 60s’ outfits danced on a plinth with vinyl record discs in the background.
The movie, from the director of Love Actually, Richard Curtis, is about young people, the 1960s and pop music.
It centres around a band of DJs who captivate Britain by playing music that defines a generation as pirate radio plays rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day.
Those behind the film said that more than half the population of Britain listened to the pirates every single day.
Arterton described the film as “fun, fun, fun all the time. It was brilliant”.
