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Psychedelic Britannia

Documentary exploring the rise and fall of the most visionary period in British music history: five kaleidoscopic years between 1965 and 1970 when a handful of dreamers reimagined pop music. When a generation of British R&B bands discovered LSD, conventions were questioned. From out of the bohemian underground and into the pop mainstream, the psychedelic era produced some of the most ground-breaking music ever made, pioneered by young improvising bands like Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, then quickly taken to the charts by the likes of the Beatles, Procol Harum, the Small Faces and the Moody Blues, even while being reimagined in the country by bucolic, folk-based artists like the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan.

English
  • Originally Aired October 23, 2015
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code b06jp24b
  • Network BBC
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Name Type Role
Nigel Planer Guest Star
Sam Bridger Director