THE BEACH BOYS - LIVE 1968 -

This Music Video features a great live version of a Beach Boys classic.
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961.

The group's original and best known lineup consisted of brothers
Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine.
Initially managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, the Beach Boys
signed to Capitol Records in 1962. The band's early music gained popularity
across the United States for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics
reflecting a Southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance.
 By the mid-1960s, Brian Wilson's growing creative ambition and songwriting ability
would dominate the group's musical direction. The primarily Wilson-composed
Pet Sounds album and "Good Vibrations" single (both released in 1966)
 featured a complex, intricate and multi-layered sound that represented
a departure from the simple surf rock of the Beach Boys' early years.

Starting in 1967, Wilson gradually abdicated control to the rest of the band,
assuming a level of input due to mental health and substance abuse issues.
Though the more democratic incarnation of the Beach Boys recorded
a string of albums in various musical styles that garnered
international critical and commercial success, the group struggled
to reclaim their commercial momentum in America
despite once being seen as the primary competitors to the Beatles.

Since the 1980s, there has been much publicized legal-wrangling over royalties,
songwriting credits, and use of the band's name. Dennis Wilson drowned in December 1983,
and Carl died of lung cancer in February 1998. After Carl's death,  versions of the band,
each fronted by a surviving member of the original quintet, toured into the 2000s.
In 2012, the surviving Beach Boys put aside their differences,
recorded a new album, and embarked on a full-scale reunion tour.

The Beach Boys have often been called "America's Band",
and Allmusic has stated that their "unerring ability ...
made them America's first, best rock band."]
The group have had over eighty songs chart worldwide,
thirty-six of them United States Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band),
four of those reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Beach Boys have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide
and are listed at number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list
"100 Greatest Artists of All Time". The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

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