Why the Beach Boys Matter

"An excellent introduction to the band that might have evolved, [the author] suggests, into the Beatles." —New York Journal of Books

Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later hippie, countercultur...