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The Beach Boys’ immortal “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” relates a fantasy of grown-up happiness imagined by a pair of young lovers, a wholesome daydream of an unsupervised, unmediated union; the word “you” ...

The Beach Boys loom so large in our shared cultural imagination that it’s surprising to remember that the group only appeared in a single feature motion picture. Yes, the “beach party” movies of the ...

Mike Love is sitting in a blah-looking room in a Sheraton hotel in North Carolina, the garish pattern of his signature Hawaiian shirt popping against the ochre wallpaper behind him. The 83-year-old ...

At a time when most of their peers have retired, threatened to call it quits or died, the Beach Boys continue to perform 120 shows per year. Led by original singer Mike Love and longtime ...

In 1968, Dennis Wilson first met Charles Manson after picking up two female hitchhikers on the Sunset Strip and invited them back to his home. When Wilson brought his involvement with the Maharishi ...

Streaming has yielded bounties in numerous areas, but nowhere more than in the field of music documentaries catering to Baby Boomers. Those projects have also been enriched not just by nostalgia for ...

Mike Love was obviously pleased to see the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” holding strong at No. 2 in the latest update of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in Rolling Stone, with only Marvin Gaye’s “What’s ...