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Beach Boys, The

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Founded: 1961

Headquarters: Hawthorne, CA

Website Link(s): Official Site

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The primary competition for The Beatles as a forgotten band that put out one 45, then disappeared. The Beach Boys were the project primarily of Brian Wilson and his brothers, cousin (Mike Love) and family friend (Al Jardine), along with his father who initally managed the group (though he was abusive and was the source for songs like "In My Room". Brian Wilson's mental state being as it was, he stopped touring with the band in 1965, and decided to work solely in the studio, being one of the first to use the studio like an instrument. The culmination of this was the unreleased Smile album, intended to be the follow up to Pet Sounds. After the collapse of Smile, his control over the band faded and Mike Love took more of a leading role (though Brian Wilson still had more of a say than people think). In the 1980s, the band collapsed a bit with the deaths of two of the Wilson brothers, and Brian and Al leaving the group, Mike Love was left to put together a touring band of session musicians to continue making money off the group's name and sue the other Beach Boys (Al Jardine for using "of The Beach Boys" to advertise his shows and Brian Wilson for using the Beach Boys name to promote his recently completed Smile).

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