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He later said that he thought of himself as “a behind-the-scenes man, rather than an entertainer.” The other band members, ...
The Beach Boys were one of the most iconic bands of the 1960s and their name came to define the breezy, sun-kissed harmonies ...
The 1970s were a strange time to be a kid. The world was caught between post-hippie naivety and the gritty realities of ...
Fun” and “Surfer Girl” made the Beach Boys into America’s biggest-selling band. But after five years of prodigious songwriting, in which he produced 200 odes to sun, surfing and sun-tanned ...
Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, an inventor of what would ... Songs of All Time”; “Don’t Worry Baby,” “Surfer Girl,” “Surfin’ Safari,” “In My Room,” “Be True ...
They would change their name to the Beach Boys in late 1961. Wilson was responsible for writing more than three dozen top-40 U.S. hits, including "God Only Knows," "Surfer Girl," "Surfin' USA ...