Over the weekend I went to see the Beach Boys perform at Wembley Arena.
Californians are still putting vehicles in their songs, but it's not the Beach Boys anymore.
Backing vocals are taken from the Beach Boys school of rock, sung in carefully orchestrated group harmony.
The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson also took the pre-telecast stage to accept the Grammy for best historical album.
He once had the opportunity to compere the Beach Boys tour of Britain, which Roger describes as a 'marvellous experience'.
And US veterans The Beach Boys' studio album, That's Why God Made the Radio, reached number 15 in its opening week.
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Songwriters and bands like the Beach Boys and the Beatles began laying down the soundtrack that we still tap our feet to.
An Edwardian barbershop quartet sings "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys.
American band The Beach Boys are to headline Henley Festival in Oxfordshire.
The Brian Wilson-Mike Love version of the Beach Boys has just arrived in London for the final two dates of their reunion tour.
Right now, he doesn't know who he'll be working with on the record, but adds that he'd like it to be the Beach Boys.
Bassist and guitarist Jardine joined the Beach Boys before their first recording on the recommendation of Murray Wilson, father of Brian, Carl and Dennis.
Tracks from Atomic Kitten, Eminem, Destiny's Child make the top 100 as do more established songs from The Beach Boys, Michael Jackson and Simon and Garfunkel.
After writing a succession of major hits for the Beach Boys, Wilson's mental health began to deteriorate under the pressure of success in the late 1960s.
Sitting out on duty, I was prisoner of whatever music blasted from the bathhouse radio, including this song from a later edition of the Beach Boys.
Just before the Grammy Museum celebration, Love and Johnston issued a press release announcing they would be hitting the road with their own incarnation of the Beach Boys.
From The Beach Boys and The Zombies to Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes, nothing makes a pop song sunnier than layer upon layer of vocal harmonies.
Add the magic of Hollywood and later the sound of the Beach Boys' pop and cool West Coast jazz: no wonder the world thought California to be especially blessed.
We listened to The Cure and some retro songs for a half-second (Europeans have a thing for The Beach Boys, no?), then headed downstairs to hear more European vibes.
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For Doors admirers, the band symbolized the darker side of the Los Angeles lifestyle, what happened to the city after the sun went down and the Beach Boys fans headed home.
He hinted that the Beach Boys have "a lot of stuff in the can that hasn't been heard" and that the group would "try to get an album together" this year.
Sir Paul McCartney's Kisses on the Bottom record was named best traditional pop vocal album, while The Beach Boys won best historical album, their first ever Grammy, for The Smile Sessions.
Original members Mike Love, Brian Wilson and Al Love last year performed with band members David Marks and Bruce Johnston at London's Wembley Arena on The Beach Boys' 50th anniversary world tour.
The five-piece experimented unsuccessfully with folk, and then in 1967, primary songwriter Mitch Margo (dazzled by the horizon-expanding works of The Beach Boys and The Beatles) began working on an attempt at contemporary pop.
The Beach Boys are headlining this year's event.
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They played behind Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and all the rest, played on more monster hits than the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys combined.
They hardly sparkle with the sunshine pop of the Beach Boys or the gleaming funk of Dr. Dre, but Feist's pleasant brand of melancholy strikes the right mood for winding in (Unintelligible) city, feeling comfortably lost and alone.
We kind of tweaked the interest of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, and he wanted to make us the first act that he produced on Brother Records, and we go in, and he writes two songs for us.
All the North Beach boys sold papers, if they didn't have some other job.
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