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The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band on Stage and in the Studio
by
Keith Badman
Beginning their career as a popular surf band, The Beach Boys had emerged by 1966 as America's preeminent pop group, the only act able to challenge the success of The Beatles with both mainstream listeners and the critical community. This book reconstructs their evolution to one of the best-produced groups of the '60s, and also profiles Brian Wilson, one of the most gifted...more
Paperback, 399 pages
Published
October 10th 2004
by Backbeat Books
(first published October 2004)
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This is a very good read. To be honest, I only really bought this book for the SMiLE material, however I found the information from Wild Honey on to Holland very, very insightful. I only gave it 4 stars because the SMiLE details are sketchy in some areas. This is not due to Keith Badman. The SMiLE era is just so undocumented in general. There are more than one reason why SMiLE is considered "the greatest unreleased album of all time." I believe some of the "Wonderful" session...more
This is for anyone who's ever wanted to know a day by day overview of the Beach Boy's lives (outside of a masturbation schedule). Studio time, tour reviews, detailed Smile sessions, musician lists (actual copies of the musician union tallies), amazing pictures, this book has it all and more. Although pricey and I had to hit on the girl at Chapters a month before she'd give me the 30% off on this book (even the po' gotta read) it is totally worth it. I mean, just to have a chronology of Mike ...more
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Beach Boys completists, worshippers at the church of Brian Wilson, and nobody else
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I guess the problem is that the BBs did not do as many interesting things as the Beatles and Bob Dylan did. So this eventually makes your eyes go crossed and you now realise you're not quite as huge a BBs fan as you thought you were.
Pure pop madness.
Pure pop madness.
An exhaustive account of an underrated band who's story is stranger than fiction.
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