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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson; their cousin Mike Love; and their friend Al Jardine. Distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The band drew on the music of jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and black R&B to create their unique sound, and with Brian as composer, arranger, producer, and de facto leader, often incorporated classical or jazz elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways.
The Beach Boys began as a garage band, managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, with Brian's musicianship dominating their creative direction. In 1963, they gained national prominence with a string of top-ten hits reflecting a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance, later dubbed the "California Sound". After 1964, they abandoned beachgoing themes for more personal lyrics and ambitious orchestrations. In 1966, the Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single raised the group's prestige as rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following the dissolution of the group's Smile project in 1967, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The group's commercial momentum subsequently faltered, and despite efforts to maintain an experimental sound, they were dismissed by early rock critics as the archetypal "pop music cop-outs".
Carl took over as the band's musical leader until the late 1970s. Personal struggles, creative disagreements, and the continued success of the band's greatest hits albums precipitated their transition into an oldies act. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits and use of the band's name transpired. Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carl's death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston continued to tour into the 2000s while other members pursued solo projects. Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnston's band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys' corporation, Brother Records Inc (BRI).
The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and widely influential bands of all time. The group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band), four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Beach Boys have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling bands of all time and are listed at No. 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2017, a study of AllMusic's catalog indicated the Beach Boys as the 6th most frequently cited artist influence in its database. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

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Cabin Essence lyrics
2011

Cabin Essence Single

Fun Fun Fun lyrics
1996

Fun Fun Fun Single

Still Cruisin' lyrics
1989

Still Cruisin' Single

Sail On, Sailor lyrics
1973

Sail On, Sailor Single

Holland lyrics
1973

Holland

Marcella lyrics
1972

Marcella Single

Long Promised Road lyrics
1971

Long Promised Road Single

1971

Cool, Cool Water Single

Tears in the Morning lyrics
1970

Tears in the Morning Single

1970

Slip On Through Single

Cotton Fields lyrics
1970

Cotton Fields Single

Break Away lyrics
1969

Break Away Single

I Can Hear Music lyrics
1969

I Can Hear Music Single

20/20 lyrics
1969

20/20

1968

Do It Again Single

Friends lyrics
1968

Friends Single

Darlin' lyrics
1967

Darlin' Single

Wild Honey lyrics
1967

Wild Honey Single

Gettin' Hungry lyrics
1967

Gettin' Hungry Single

Heroes and Villains lyrics
1967

Heroes and Villains Single

Good Vibrations lyrics
1966

Good Vibrations Single

Wouldn't It Be Nice lyrics
1966

Wouldn't It Be Nice Single

Caroline, No lyrics
1966

Caroline, No Single

Sloop John B lyrics
1966

Sloop John B Single

Barbara Ann lyrics
1965

Barbara Ann Single

California Girls lyrics
1965

California Girls Single

Help Me, Rhonda lyrics
1965

Help Me, Rhonda Single

1965

Do You Wanna Dance Single

Dance, Dance, Dance lyrics
1964

Dance, Dance, Dance Single

I Get Around lyrics
1964

I Get Around Single

Little Saint Nick lyrics
1963

Little Saint Nick Single

Surfin' U.S.A. lyrics
1963

Surfin' U.S.A. EP

Ten Little Indians lyrics
1962

Ten Little Indians Single

1962

Barbie Single

Surfin' lyrics
1961

Surfin' Single

Forever Single

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