The Beach Boys’ story gets more tangled by the minute
“All bands are sad stories,” Peter Doggett points out, but is there a more woven, moving and, at times, farcical tale than that of the Beach Boys? It gives the sound of them a greater melancholy and resonance with every passing year. As his fascinating new book Surf’s Up reveals, nothing that happened is straightforward and very little as simple as it sounds. We talk here about … … Dennis Wilson and the Beach Boys’ creation myth … what started their revival … why they’d never have survived beyond 1962 without Mike Love … was Derek Taylor’s ‘Brian is a genius’ campaign partly to explain his…
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