The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group’s original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. In 1963, the group gained national prominence with a string of top-ten singles reflecting a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love, & Jardin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group’s original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. In 1963, the group gained national prominence with a string of top-ten singles reflecting a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. They were one of the few American rock bands to sustain their commercial standing during the British Invasion. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Beach Boys number 12 on its list of the greatest artists of all time. Between the 1960s and 2010s, they had over 80 songs chart worldwide, 36 of them in the US Top 40, and four topping the Billboard Hot 100. Their influence on other artists spans musical genres and movements such as psychedelia, power pop, progressive rock, punk, alternative, and lo-fi. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love, & Jardin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. As of 2020, Brian and Jardines do not perform with Love’s Beach Boys, but remain official members of the band. The Beach Boys have sold over 100 million records worldwide, with over 80 of them topping the US Hot 100, and four in the Top 40. They have been inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. The band has been awarded a Grammy Award for the song “Surfin’ Safari” in 1994. The first single to be released by the group was “The Pendleton Effect” in 1961, which is a pun on a style of woolen shirt popular at the time.
The song was written by Mike Love and Brian Wilson, with lyrics inspired by the sport and lifestyle that it had inspired in Southern California, and called ‘Sur Fin’ Safari’ The group has also recorded several albums, including “Pet Sounds” and “Good Vibrations” In 1966, the Pet Sounds album and \”Good Vibes” single raised the group’s prestige as rock innovators. After scrapping the unfinished album Smile in 1967, Brian’s contributions diminished due to his mental health issues. Dennis drowned in 1983 and Brian soon became estranged from the group. In the 1990s and 2000s, the members filed numerous lawsuits against each other. Following Carl’s death from lung cancer in 1998, the band and its corporation granted Love legal rights to tour as \”the Beach Boys\”. As of 2010, Brian, Love and friends performed at Hawthorne High School with Brian’s sister Maureen and a friend of his, Mike Love’s cousin and brother Carl, and gave the band its fledgling name: ‘Surfin’s Safari’ Brian suggested the name ‘Pendleton’ and Mike Love gave it to his cousin and his brother Carl. The name ‘Sur fin’ Safari is a reference to a popular surf shirt popular in the time, and he suggested that the group write songs that celebrated the sport.
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