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The Beach Boys are an American rock and roll band. They have the honor of recording thirty-six U.S. Top 40 hits (including four #1 singles) and many best-selling albums. Their distinctive vocal harmonies have earned them great recognition. The band is matchless by any other American rock band as far as sale of singles and albums are concerned.

The act first gained popularity as the musical spokesmen for surfing, girls, and cars, but they were successfully transformed into a more artistically innovative combo by their chief composer Brian Wilson's growing creative ambitions.

The group had to experience a stormy career with Brian Wilson's mental illness, drug addiction, and eventual withdrawal from the group; the deaths of Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson in 1983 and 1998 respectively; and continuing legal battles among surviving members of the group. These happenings led to many changes in both musical style and personnel of the band. After Carl Wilson's death, Mike Love fired the founding member Al Jardine. However, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston continue to officially tour as The Beach Boys after leasing the rights to the name from Brother Records.

History
Early years
The group was formed in 1960. Wilsons' musician father, Murry and the close vocal harmonies of groups such as The Four Freshmen were the early inspirations of the group. The group heavily relied on Brian Wilson right from the beginning.

Initially, the group performed as The Pendletones. The heavy wool jacket-like shirts were worn by the band in their earliest performances. These were favored by surfers in the South. The Beach Boys began wearing white pants and candy-striped button-down shirts as their touring uniforms in 1962,. The shirts had blue/gray and white stripes, a vertical front opening with buttons, short sleeves, a button-down collar, and a front patch pocket on the left. This was the band's signature look through 1966.

Brian's innovations and personal difficulties
Brain could not bear the stress of maintaining a high level of creativity. Brian suffered from an anxiety attack while a flight to Houston on December 23, 1964. Therefore, he withdrew from touring and focused his attention entirely on songwriting and record production.Wilson was replaced by Glen Cambell on tours. He could not continue with the group for a long time. He left the group after his own career success.

Brian was encouraged by Jan & Dean to use session musicians in the studio. Jan & Dean were the close friends with the band and opening act for them in concert in 1963 and 1964. This, along with Brian's withdrawal from touring, enabled him to expand his role as a producer.

Surf City for his opening act was also written by Wilson. The Jan & Dean recording hit #1 on the U.S. charts in the summer of 1963.

Traces of Brian Wilson's increasing studio productivity and ideas were noticeable by 1964.

Bars of silence between two verses are featured in "Drive-In," an album track from All Summer Long while "Denny's Drums," the last track on Shut Down, Vol. II, is a two-minute drum solo. On tracks such as "I Get Around" and "When I Grow Up.", the group relied more on nimble session players.

Wilson made greater experimentation behind the soundboard in 1965. There was less focus on guitars, more emphasis on keyboards and percussion, as well as volume experiments and increased lyrical maturity in the album Today! Side A of the album was devoted to sunny pop tunes, with darker ballads on the reverse side.

The Boys followed up their #3 smash "California Girls" in November 1965 with another top 20 single, "The Little Girl I Once Knew." . It was only the band's second single not to reach the top 10 since their 1963 breakthrough.

A highly successful joint concert tour with Chicago was staged by the Beach Boys in 1975. In this tour, each group performed some of the other's songs, including their previous year's collaboration on Chicago's hit "Wishing You Were Here". Beach Boy vocals were also heard on Elton John's 1974 hit "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me."

The Beach Boys suddenly became a hit again with the release of "Endless Summer". But the group could not produce albums of new material from 1973 to 1976, they were considered an oldies band.

At concerts, they would play old material, especially their hits from the 1960s. The Beach Boys were in great need of new material, and they looked to Brian Wilson for help.

Band Members
Al Jardine
Bruce Johnston
Mike Love
Brian Wilson
Old Members
Carl Wilson
Dennis Wilson
David Marks
Ricky Fataar
Blondie Chaplin
Glen Campbell
Latest Hits
good vibrations
kokomo
surfin? Usa
help me
rhonda
wouldn't it be nice
california girls
shut down
i get around
fun fun fun
i get around
god only knows
endless summer
forever

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