Tagged: The Beach Boys

December 12, 2023

Sunshine Pop a ’60s Soundtrack

Influenced by the Beach Boys, sunshine pop performers gave popular music a light touch in the ’60s. What Is Sunshine...

May 25, 2023

‘Strawberry Fields Forever,’ Penny Lane,’ and ‘A Day in the Life.’ Imagine if all three were on Sgt. Pepper. Prologue...

February 7, 2023

All of these acts thrived amid the screaming roar of the Fab Four. Prologue In March 1963, after being brushed...

December 15, 2021

‘Sloop John B’ and ‘Sail On, Sailor’ were off the charted course from the Beach Boys’ idealized California culture. ‘If...

August 23, 2017

The late hit-maker was once a part of an elite group of LA session musicians We mourn the passage of...