Beach Boys
If you ever dreamed of grabbing your girl and your stick and heading to the strand to catch some curls, you dreamed of being a Beach Boy.#
If you can't instantly recall a Beach Boys tune there is something seriously wrong with you...really. And if you can, you will never get it out of your head. No other band so completely defines an American idiom. If you ever dreamed of grabbing your girl and your stick and heading to the strand to catch some curls, you dreamed of being a Beach Boy.
The quintessential summertime band formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, which was home to a community of teenage surfing addicts. Dennis, the middle brother in the Wilson family, was the hopelessly addicted. It was his idea to write songs about surfing; Brian and Mike agreed the idea was a good one, and they began working on the lyrics to what was to become "Surfin". From their sandy origins, The Beach Boys launched a very impressive musical career, bringing the world classic tunes like, "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Help Me, Rhonda," "California Girls," and "Good Vibrations." Their Pet Sounds album even inspired a British group to come up with a "concept album" of their own, which they titled Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ... Continue here
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