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“I just shut up and didn’t talk and did whatever Brian told me to do”: Bruce Johnston and the surviving Beach Boys talk about the making of Pet Sounds

Brian Wilson’s masterpiece turns 60 this week

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“I figured nobody would pay any attention to me. But those kids, they jumped on me, started yankin’ my hair. They tore off my shirt”: From Pet Sounds to playing Brian on tour, Glen Campbell’s hair-raising tenure as the Beach Boys’ guitarist

He became a country icon, but for a stint in the mid-’60s, Campbell was a Beach Boy

Guitar World

Al Jardine loved making The Beach Boys’ masterpiece Pet Sounds. He hated making the album cover

Exclusive: As the album celebrates its 60th anniversary, one of The Beach Boys’ surviving original members recalls the moment Brian Wilson called them to the studio, and how he made an enemy out of his cover art co-star

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Pet Sounds is getting its definitive audiophile vinyl pressing for its 60th birthday next month

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Keith Altham obituary

Journalist who pioneered the role of rock music PR in the UK and looked after the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Beach Boys

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“I was just throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck”: Beach Boys hire new bass player from social media – after he made a video on how to sound like the Beach Boys

Chris Cron's unassuming clip went viral, and soon he was learning Carol Kaye’s basslines for the real deal

Guitar World

"I don't know what to think. This was never on my bingo card." The Beach Boys replace Bruce Johnston with singer found on social media

Three years ago Chris Cron made a video entitled How To Sound Like The Beach Boys and uploaded it to Instagram: Now he's in the band

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John Stamos gets first tattoo

John Stamos has got his first tattoo - at the age of 62 - and wants it to be a reminder to take "bigger swings" with his life and career.

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'Forever grateful' Beach Boys icon quits live touring band after 61 years

Bruce Johnston is stepping back from touring with Mike Love's Beach Boys.

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From Amarillo to Stockport: 15 of Neil Sedaka’s greatest songs, and their extraordinary stories

From being a writer for hire in the 1950s to his solo pop stardom and emphatic 1970s comeback, the late musician’s catalogue is stuffed with stunning, surprising songcraft

The Guardian - UK

The Beach Boys: We Gotta Groove review – box set of lost 70s music has all of Brian Wilson’s turmoil and talent

Spanning 1974-77, this collection shows Wilson was capable of stunning pre-rock’n’roll homage – on the previously unheard Adult/Child – while also writing wayward songs about organic food

The Guardian - UK

The Beach Boys to release scrapped album Adult/Child for first time as part of gigantic boxset

Adult/Child has long been bootlegged, but now fans have the chance to own the collection.

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Meghan Markle has been dubbed a ‘holiday hypocrite’ – there’s a good reason for that

COMMENT: In her Netflix special, ‘With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration’, the Duchess of Sussex manages to ignore the reality of her own family estrangement with her “perfect” Christmas. No wonder she’s been named on a ‘holiday’ villain list, says Charlotte Cripps.

The Independent UK

“This amp has taken me about 10 years to nail down”: A long-lost Beach Boys Dumble that has spent the past 35 years in Hawaii has surfaced – and Jason Momoa is using it on his new album

This early 1980s holy grail took a decade to hunt down – and there's another one out there in the wild

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Melania Trump 'Looks Like Hostage' At Tree Lighting: Viewers Spot Odd Moment

Melania Trump's shocked 'lip-drop moment' at the Christmas Tree lighting goes viral. Body language experts decode the fleeting grimace next to Donald Trump.

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The price of fame? Experts find being a celebrity can shorten your life

Despite the glitz and glamour – researchers found that life in the limelight can shorten lives

Cinemablend

Disney Had The Beach Boys (And John Stamos) Play At Epcot, And The Crowd Was Absolutely Nuts

Disney Adult John Stamos visited Epcot, and he brought a band.

Tom’s Guide

Forget the Springsteen movie — you should stream this music biopic instead

Why you should stream 'Love & Mercy,' a biopic about Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys

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“He sent back a really beautiful letter, allowing us the usage of one of his most famous and brilliant songs ever”: the 90s alt-rock anthem that stuck a Beach Boys chorus in the middle of the track and got the seal of approval from Brian Wilson himself

The band’s drummer didn't think they could get away with it, but the band’s drummer was wrong.

Guitar World

“These guys are pros. Brian handpicked these people to represent his music”: Al Jardine on good times with Brian Wilson (and his band), the legacy of his genius, and how the Beach Boys transformed ‘60s surf and guitar culture

As Jardine reflects on the pop-cultural miracle of the Beach Boys and their rising tide of musicality as Brian Wilson's genius crested, he talks about the guitars behind it, and says it was fun, fun, fun

Guitar World

“I had to learn to play electric guitar when I formed the Beach Boys with the guys. I had togo electric. It was like Dylan”: These two Beach Boys classics might have been misunderstood, but with Al Jardine’s guitar work, they stand the test of time

Surf’s Up and Holland confused some listeners when they were released in the early ’70s but they capture a band being a real functioning band. Jardine shares the stories – and the gear – behind them

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Mackenzie Phillips’ Family Breaks Silence On Explosive 10-Year Incest Allegations With Father

“Very, very dark."

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“Brian asked me if I wanted to do a lead. I got excited and was ready to shred”: The Lost Beach Boy on the classic song he overdubbed on

Brian Wilson typically turned to his brother, Carl, for leads, but David Marks got a rare chance to buck that trend in 1964

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"We had no idea that what we were doing was groundbreaking or revolutionary": Read our classic interview with Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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“I didn’t feel the compassion, let’s put it that way”: Al Jardine criticises Mike Love’s speech at Brian Wilson’s funeral

He says his bandmate has some “serious megalomania problems”

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