The Beach Boys

Genres:	Holiday & Seasonal, Music & Radio Books, Pop / Rock
Descriptive "tags":	pop, classic rock, rock, oldies, Surf, 60s, indie, alternative, psychedelic, indie rock, seen live, surf rock
Decades Active:	1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Biography

The seminal line-up of this celebrated US pop band comprised brothers Brian Wilson (20 June 1942, Hawthorne, California, USA), Carl Wilson (b. 21 December 1946, Hawthorne, California, d. 6 February 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA) and Dennis Wilson (b. 4 December 1944, Hawthorne, California, USA, d. 28 December 1983), their cousin Mike Love (b. 15 March 1941, Baldwin Hills, California, USA), and school friend Al Jardine (b. 3 September 1942, Lima, Ohio, USA). When the aforementioned quintet formed a casual singing group in Hawthorne in summer 1961, they unconsciously created one of the longest running, compulsively fascinating and bitterly tragic sagas in popular music.

As Carl And The Passions, the Pendletones and Kenny And The Cadets, the quintet rehearsed and played high-school hops while elder brother Brian began to demonstrate his songwriting ability. He was already obsessed with harmonics and melody, and would listen for hours to...

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