Archive Fever

The Bee Gees are a music super group featuring the extraordinary talents of three brothers, Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. Selling over 220 million records worldwide during their career the brothers became synonymous as a pop and disco act during the late 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s. This programme is packed full with memorable moments and through classic archive footage it tells their incredible story.

This is the incredible story of Uther Pendragon, a lost psychedelic band from San Francisco whose music has remained buried until now. Formed in the Bay Area in 1966 as a teen garage group called Blue Fever, Uther Pendragon lasted from 1966 until 1978. During that time, the band went through different names and phases, as their music evolved from garage to psychedelia to hard rock, but the core of the band always remained the same: Mark Lightcap (rhythm guitar, vocals), Bruce Marelich (lead guitar, vocals), and Martin Espinosa (bass, vocals). After finding their ultimate drummer in Mike Beers, the group finally settled on the Uther Pendragon name in the early '70s. But despite being active for all that time and recording at numerous studios (including their own in Palo Alto), Uther Pendragon never released any recordings…