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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson; their cousin Mike Love; and their friend Al Jardine. Distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The band drew on the music of jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and black R&B to create their unique sound, and with Brian as composer, arranger, producer, and de facto leader, often incorporated classical or jazz elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways.
The Beach Boys began as a garage band, managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, with Brian's musicianship dominating their creative direction. In 1963, they gained national prominence with a string of top-ten hits reflecting a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance, later dubbed the "California Sound". After 1964, they abandoned beachgoing themes for more personal lyrics and ambitious orchestrations. In 1966, the Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single raised the group's prestige as rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following the dissolution of the group's Smile project in 1967, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The group's commercial momentum subsequently faltered, and despite efforts to maintain an experimental sound, they were dismissed by early rock critics as the archetypal "pop music cop-outs".
Carl took over as the band's musical leader until the late 1970s. Personal struggles, creative disagreements, and the continued success of the band's greatest hits albums precipitated their transition into an oldies act. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits and use of the band's name transpired. Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carl's death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston continued to tour into the 2000s while other members pursued solo projects. Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnston's band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys' corporation, Brother Records Inc (BRI).
The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and widely influential bands of all time. The group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band), four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Beach Boys have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling bands of all time and are listed at No. 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2017, a study of AllMusic's catalog indicated the Beach Boys as the 6th most frequently cited artist influence in its database. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Albums
Cabin Essence Single
20 Great Love Songs
Fun Fun Fun Single
Summer in Paradise
Friends / 20/20
Still Cruisin' Single
The Beach Boys Best
The Beach Boys Medley / God Only Knows Single
L.A. (Light Album)
M.I.U. Album
15 Big Ones
California Saga: California Single
Sail On, Sailor Single
Holland
Marcella Single
Mount Vernon and Fairway EP
You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone Single
Long Promised Road Single
Cool, Cool Water Single
Tears in the Morning Single
Slip On Through Single
Cotton Fields Single
Add Some Music to Your Day Single
Break Away Single
I Can Hear Music Single
20/20
Bluebirds Over the Mountain Single
Do It Again Single
Friends Single
Darlin' Single
Wild Honey Single
Smiley Smile
Gettin' Hungry Single
Heroes and Villains Single
Good Vibrations Single
Wouldn't It Be Nice Single
Caroline, No Single
Sloop John B Single
Barbara Ann Single
Beach Boys' Party!
The Little Girl I Once Knew Single
California Girls Single
Help Me, Rhonda Single
Do You Wanna Dance Single
The Man With All the Toys Single
Dance, Dance, Dance Single
Four by The Beach Boys EP
All Summer Long
I Get Around Single
Shut Down, Volume 2
When I Grow Up (to Be a Man) Single
Little Saint Nick Single
Be True to Your School Single
Little Deuce Coupe
Surfin’ USA
Surfin' U.S.A. EP
Ten Little Indians Single
Surfin' Safari Single
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Surfin' Single
Forever Single
Popular Songs
- No‐Go Showboat
- Papa-Oom-Mow-Wow
- Heads You Win – Tails I Lose
- Chug‐a‐Lug
- “Cassius” Love vs. “Sonny” Wilson
- Bull Session With the “Big Daddy”
- Drive‐In
- Bull Session With “Big Daddy”
- Mortified
- Trombone Dixie
- Unreleased Backgrounds
- The Beach Boys Medley
- Papa-Oom-Mom-Wom
- Johnny B. Good
- Brian's Back
- All Alone
- Barbara
- Wonderful / Don't Worry, Bill
- Sail Plane Song
- Medley: Surfin' Safari / Fun, Fun, Fun / Shut Down / Little Deuce Coupe / Surfin' U.S.A.
- Radio Concert Promo 2
- Radio Concert Promo 1
- My Old Sunshine
- When a Man Needs a Women
- Barbi
- Luan
- Reprise
- Help Me Roanda
- George Fell Into His Horn
- Bicycle Rider Theme