GEMMnews: Music That Makes You Feel Good!

GEMMnews: Music That Makes You Feel Good!

The Beach Boys are the premiere rock vocal group in the world. Formed in 1961, brothers Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson along with their cousin Mike Love and schoolmate Alan Jardine blended rootsy Chuck Berry R&B, The Four Freshman's intricate vocal harmonies, and the topical splendor of California's mythos of an Endless Summer into a unique, new form. Crafting a series of hit singles the equal of anything of their contemporaries, the band, under the creative muse of their leader, songwriter and producer Brian Wilson, began to evolve their sound, moving quickly away from their surf, car and sand topicality towards more deeply passionate, introspective songs that examined love, heartache, and longing.

This website begun in 1993 as a novice's fan site hoping to share my love of The Beach Boys' music, has grown and expanded over the years to include ALL the works of the Beach Boys, as well as their antecedents, contemporaries, and musical heirs. The Beach Boys music, which seemed on the outset to be so much of its time and place, continues to gain new fans and admirers their sunny, feel-good music, deeply-felt compositions, and still-astounding experimentation have made them the quintissential American Band. The Beach Boys sound music that simply makes you feel good.

Since the 1980s, there has been much legal-wrangling among the group members over royalties, songwriting credits, and use of the band's name. While The Beach Boys released their last studio album in 1996, a number of versions of the band, each fronted by a surviving member of the original quintet (Dennis and Carl Wilson died in 1983 and 1998, respectively), continue to tour.

The Beach Boys have often been called "America's Band", and Allmusic has stated that "the band's unerring ability... made them America's first, best rock band. The group has had 36 United States Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band) and 56 Hot 100 hits, including four number-one singles.Rolling Stone magazine listed The Beach Boys at number 12 on their 2004 list of the "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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