The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys biography

The group's 1966 releases-Pet Sounds and "Good Vibrations"-frequently rank among critics' lists of the greatest albums and singles of all time. Pet Sounds is on the greatest-albums lists Time, Rolling Stone, New Musical Express, Mojo, and The Times. The record was profoundly influential on The Beach Boys' contemporaries; Paul McCartney named it one of his favorite albums of all time (with "God Only Knows" as his all-time favorite song). McCartney has frequently said that it was the inspiration behind the seminal Beatles' album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Echoing this sentiment, Beatles producer George Martin is quoted saying, "Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds."

The Wilsons' Hawthorne, California house, where the Wilson brothers grew up and the group began, was demolished in 1986 to make way for Interstate 105, the Century Freeway. A Beach Boys Historic Landmark (California Landmark #1041 at 3701 West 119th Street), dedicated on May 20, 2005, marks the location.

See also

• The Beach Boys lineups
• List of songs by The Beach Boys

References

• Whitburn, Joel, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 1992.
• Wilson, Brian (with Todd Gold), Wouldn't It Be Nice, My Own Story, 1991.
• Complete Guide To The Music Of The Beach Boys, a book updated in 2004 as Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys: The Complete Guide To Their Music, author Andrew Grayham Doe.
• Endless Summer Quarterly Endless Summer Quarterly, the "World's Leading Beach Boys Publication"

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