This may have been, as the trades predicted, the bitchinest summer ever for the Beach Boys, what with their new album, their tour, and Brian Wilson finally getting out of bed. But as far as I’m concerned these last four months have been one endless bummer. I couldn’t seem to come...
The surfin' boys of summer try to figure it all out October 28, 1971 The Beach Boys on the cover of Rolling Stone.Annie Leibovitz Brian began murmuring . . . “World Climatic Regions . . . Face of the Moon . . . Geodetic Satellites. What does geodetic mean? Of the earth? Of the ...
One Of The Boys: Piano/Vocal/ChordsPVG PersonalityPop sensation Katy Perry's breakthrough release, featuring the worldwide smash hit single "I Kissed a Girl." Also includes all the other songs from the album, color photos, and more. (Hal Leonard)Perry / Katyalfred publishing...
And with “tell me”, she’ll actually make you want to dance, like she did for tens of thousands of fans when she opened for Beyoncé on the Renaissance tour’s London stop last summer. Sammy Virji, “Moonlight” U.K. producer Sammy Virji is one of the r...
The Beach Boys had definitely been aware of that record — on their 1965 album Summer Days… And Summer Nights! they recorded an answer song to it, “The Girl From New York City”: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, “The Girl From New York City”] And you can see how influenced Brian was ...
s hugely successful 1967 LPSurrealistic Pillowbecame the soundtrack to theSummer of Love, with singles “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit” ranking among the era’s most identifiable hits. The group would adopt a heavier sound toward the end of the decade, and by the dawn of the ‘...
then in the final stages of his own battle with the virus. Neil said the duo had planned to perform a cover ofThe Beatles’ The Fool On The Hill,“because I knew the chords”,until Chris Lowe overruled Neil and dug out this marginalised and almost forgotten track by a band he had alw...
The comparison is a little unfair – a summer pop record versus an avant garde jazz protest album – but the judgement is telling. It was 1970: the height of the counterculture. Violent protests were consuming the streets; New Hollywood was punching its way through cinema screens; Vietnam was...
Much of Bruce's solo work was done while he was not in the band, and therefore falls outside the scope of this Entry, but a couple of things deserve noting. The first is his work with Terry Melcher, which produced (as the Rip-Chords) the top 5 hit 'Hey Little Cobra' and which ...
9, 8, 7 and 6 (no votes)“Let’s Go Surfin” and “California Girls” by The Beach Boys, “Summertimes Blues” by Eddie Cochran, “The Boys of Summer” by Don Henley, and “Summer Mood” by Best Coast: So I guess I should start off by saying that this poll is full of meddlin...