What I Did On My Holidays, By Andrew Aged 33 3/4
Or a review of the two Beach Boys gigs I was at in Italy. Before I start… the Beach Boys (in whatever configuration) tailor their sets to their audiences and venues, and so the sets I saw (in open-air...
View ArticleThe Beach Boys On CD: Surf’s Up
Shortly after the release of Sunflower, the Beach Boys hired former journalist and DJ Jack Rieley as their manager. Outside of the band members themselves, Rieley rapidly became the most important...
View ArticleThe Beach Boys On CD: Carl And The Passions (So Tough)
Carl & The Passions feels very much like the work of a totally different band from the one that recorded Surf’s Up, and that’s because to a great extent it is. After Dennis Wilson damaged his hand...
View ArticleThe Beach Boys On CD: Holland
Holland is, in many ways, the last gasp for the Beach Boys as an artistic group. They would produce good work again, both as a band or as individuals, but in future their work would be driven by one or...
View ArticleThe Beach Boys On CD: The Beach Boys In Concert
Ask ten different Beach Boys fans their favourite period for the band as a live act, and you’ll get ten different answers. Over the years, the band’s stage show changed radically, and each period...
View ArticleThe Beach Boys On CD: The Beach Boys Love You
The follow-up to 15 Big Ones may well be the most controversial album the band ever did, with fans almost evenly divided between those who love it and those who hate it. In a recent (totally...
View ArticleThe Beach Boys On CD: Looking Back With Love
OK, I suppose I have to get it over with… I have tried, in these essays, to be as objective as I can. Yes, some of the reviews have been harsh, but I have tried wherever possible to find something...
View ArticleMike Love’s Beach Boys, 7th July 2013
Nobody in the music business polarises opinion like Mike Love. To some he’s the essential element in the Beach Boys’ success — the nasal-voiced singer of their biggest hits, “Mr Positivity”, the...
View ArticleThe Beach Boys on CD: Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks of THE BEACH...
And so we come to February 1998, the worst month in the Beach Boys’ history. Mike Love and Alan Jardine had, over the previous few years, grown increasingly distant, to the point where it was almost...
View ArticleThree Books For Every (Beach) Boy…
You wait all your life for an autobiography by a member of a classic surf vocal group, and then three come along all at once. Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love with James S Hirsch...
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