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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys' saga encompasses triumph and tragedy, innovation and excess, success and disappointment. It also involves some of the most acclaimed popular music ever created, thanks largely to the prodigious talents of sonic architect and main creative force Brian Wilson.  To the generation that came of age in the first half of the 1960s, the Beach Boys will forever be identified with the vision of an innocent, carefree pre-flower power America. The quintet's lengthy string of early hits – “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “I Get Around,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “Surfer Girl” — mythologized middle-class teenage life and the golden ideal of California, with...