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    Introduction The Beach Boy's unique performances inspired their fans. The beginning. Family inspired the Beach Boys to come together and create the band. The Wilsons family lived farther from the ocean then anyone else in the band. Their parents murry and Audree had a house rented at that time it was very cramped a couple months past and they got married in 1939. The Wilson brothers grew up in an encouraging and talented family. Their father was a songwriter when he was not working at a machine

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    What would you do if the one thing you enjoyed the most in the world became your career? You’d enjoy going to work everyday, right? The Beach Boys got to live their dream of being musicians. This group of five teenagers started off as a regular high school band, and their successes as ended as they changed the future of pop culture. Each band has their own story to tell of their group’s origin and their successes. Let’s be real. When you start to admire someone, you usually want to know about them

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    Known for their sleek guitar sounds, and captivating harmonies, the group labeled the Beach Boys, dominated the up and coming surf culture of the early 60s. The Beach Boys are a famous boy band, formed straight out of Hawthorne, California, a surfer’s paradise. Parents Murray and Audree Wilson, raised their three sons, Brian, Carter, and Dennis, to be largely influenced by sports as well as music. Growing up with a songwriter as a father, the children came together and began playing around with various

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    The Beach Boys first released “Good Vibrations” as a single in 1966, and The Beatles released “A Day in the Life” in their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. These two songs can be thought of as both bands experimenting with something new after they had their hits years before. Both songs are more complicated than what they had before with simple pop songs, and both were stepping stones to psychedelic rock. “Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys “took [Brian Wilson] more than six months

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    The Beach Boys were a band that started in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The band consisted of: Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson (all brothers), Mike Love (cousin of the three Wilson brothers), and Al Jardine. Jardine speaks of Pet Sounds’ title with Huffington Post: “After making more inquiries, Jardine found out that another Beach Boy, Mike Love, had claimed Wilson could hear things only a dog could hear — due to the

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    The Beach Boys My research essay topic is the Beach Boys. This Essay is about a group of boys that worked together through good and bad times to create a band and produce music. They had many hits that took them to the top of the charts. They also had many problems on their way up to fame. The Beach Boys were important because they helped music evolve from different types, or categories of music. Their goal was to be the next generation of music. They wanted to be the ones to evolve what we now

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    The Beach Boys In a decade of colossal controversy, political partition and civil war, it was The Beach Boys who offered many people liberation from the chronic oppression of the time with their music in the 1960s. The Beach Boys attempted to ease the spirits of the nation by singing songs about an idyllic life - where surfing and cars were the most important things to consider on a day-to-day basis. The public took to the music well, but The Beach Boys felt they had to push boundaries in order

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    The Beach Boys are extremely well known for their song “Surfin’ USA” which was released on March 4, 1963. The Beach Boys had signed with Capital records in 1962 and that year released their first album Surfin’ Safari (Carlin, 2006). “Surfin’ USA”, produced by Nik Venet, was released as a single after their success with Surfin’ Safari. “Surfin’ USA” quickly rose on the Billboard “Hot 100” chart to number three in 1963 (Convach & Flory, 2012). The group featured Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, Mike

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    from famous rockers and many diverse genres of music. The Beach Boys were part of the surf genre in rock and roll. In 1988, the Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of their many great hits and influences they had on the surf genre. Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine all made up the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys were all born in the 1940s. The Wilson’s and

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    The album Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys was released on May 16, 1966. The band decided to step out of their norm and brought forth a key piece of rock and roll history. Pet Sounds has been critiqued by many because of how different this album is compared to their other discography. Not only is it critiqued for its difference but the fact that it was the first of its kind to be a concept album. The concept of Pet Sounds was that of a relationship from beginning to the end. It pits the youthful optimism

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