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Apr 1, 2014 · Surfin' by The Beach Boys with lyrics on screen.Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love.
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Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! In 1966, Brian Wilson entered the studio to compose Smile, a Beach Boys album that he believed would change the band, and perhaps the face of popular music, forever. What happened next became legend.
This is from Jules Siegel’s Cheetah Magazine essay titled “Goodbye Surfing, Hello God.” I have it in Byron Preiss’ 1979 authorized biography, The Beach Boys: At home, as the black acetate dub turned on his bedroom hi-fi set, Wilson tried to explain the words. “It’s a man at a concert,” he said.
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The recording sessions for Smile started sometime in August of 1966 and the main backing tracks were completed by the end of the year. What came out of these sessions were two simply brilliant singles – “Good Vibrations”, which turned out to be their best song ever, and also their best selling one, and “Heroes and Villains”, a song that never reall...
Actually, along with all the insider stories seeping out of The Beach Boys’ camp during the recording sessions, the whole Smile ‘myth’ had its beginning while the tracks for the album were being recorded.The first in the series was the documentary Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, filmed in November 1966 and which included classical composer Leonard...
What Wilson, Parks, and the band attempted to do both musically and lyrically is left to all that has been said and written (including academic treatises) about Smile. The list that includes the ideas presented by Wilson and Parks themselves reads like an encyclopedia index and includes everything from a general overview of American popular music, ...
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