Love details his childhood and school years - surrounded by musical siblings and cousins but feeling a remoteness from his parents - and also makes clear the contrasts between the Loves and Wilsons, particularly financially. Given the melancholy underpinnings of some of their most famous hits, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that if everybody goes surfing, odds are some are going to wipe out.įrom the early, sun-dappled years as the band rose alongside California surf culture to the descent into the deep - presaged by a history of family dysfunction and exacerbated by fights over both creative and personal matters, betrayals, untimely deaths and the grind of endless touring - the Beach Boys story is as murky as its records are pristine. As Love puts it, the Beach Boys - initially made up of three brothers, a cousin and a friend - were all about harmony on record but often about discordance outside the studio. Which is, of course, the ultimate Beach Boys irony.
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