Tuesday, October 5, 2010 11:56AM - By Seraphina L.
The Beach Boys have given us some pretty timeless music throughout their extremely long career as a band. Pet Sounds anyone? Who else has combined pop and rock together as successfully as they have? There are few we can count and The Beach Boys are definitely near the top of that list.
So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that many find their songs beyond inspiring. In fact, the word on the street is that there will be a musical with the music of only The Beach Boys coming our way soon! It should also come out right in time for the band’s 50th anniversary. Think along the lines of Mamma Mia! and Across the Universe… Details after the jump!
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Friday, August 6, 2010 2:40PM - By Laura Aguirre
California Girl Katy Perry should’ve seen this coming, I mean, California girls isn’t just any phrase, it’s a logo, a stamp, a freaking brand name given to us by the Beach Boys, or more specifically members Brian Wilson and Mike Love who wrote “California Girls” way back when. Wilson and Love are digging the song, but Roncor Music, the company that owns the copyright on their behalf, wants their share of Perry’s “California Gurls.”
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Monday, June 21, 2010 9:44AM - By Travis Woods
Mike Love, current frontman for the Beach Boys and all-around Darth Vadar of the group, has always been a pretty honest, accurate guy. After all, this is the guy who once derisively called ex-Beach Boy and pop genius Brian Wilson’s classic Smile record a “whole album of Brian’s madness,” and even further, once dropped this nugget on an unsuspecting populace while discussing why you should catch the current Brian Wilson-less live incarnation of the Beach Boys (a.k.a., not really the Beach Boys): “Close your eyes and not only do we today replicate exactly how the original songs sounded, but the technology has gotten better so we even sound better.” Because “Kokomo” always sounds good, no matter what half-assed reconfiguration of a once-classic band is performing it, am I right?
So when Spinner reports Love saying that all of the original surviving members of the Beach Boys are reuniting, including Brian Wilson (members Carl Wilson died of cancer in 1998 and Dennis Wilson drowned in 1983), you know you can believe it.
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