The Beach Boys - Did You Know?
March 9, 2018Music facts, music trivia, interesting stories and much more. Introducing the "Did You Know" page about American rock band, The Beach Boys.
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band that was 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The original lineup of the band consisted of brothers Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine.
The Beach Boys are considered to be one of the most influential acts of the rock era, with their music style, drawing the music of jazz-based vocal groups, 1950s rock and roll, and black R&B, creating their own unique sound, and with Brian Wilson as composer and producer, the band also incorporated classical or jazz elements and unconventional recording techniques in ways that were different and innovative.
The did you know fact of today talks less about the band's music and more about the interesting personal life of band member Dennis Wilson. In 1968, Dennis Wilson became friends with Charles Manson, who thought of himself as a songwriter.
Dennis let Manson and his followers stay at his place and even paid most of their expenses. When it became clear that Charles Manson was not of sound mind, Dennis was afraid to evict Manson, so he decided to let the lease end on the house and never came back to it.
Manson and his "family" went on a notorious murder spree in 1969, but before he killed anyone, The Beach Boys recorded one of Charles Manson's songs, "Learn Not to Love."
Back to the band itself and their music career, The Beach Boys are without a doubt, one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and widely influential bands of all time.
They had more than 80 songs chart all over the world, with 36 of them US Top 40 hits, which is the most by an American rock band. They have sold approximately 100 million records worldwide, which made them one of the world's best-selling bands of all timem, listed at No. 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
In 1988, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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The song "I Get Around" by The Beach Boys does not have deep lyrical content, but it's a fun song about a teenage lifestyle featuring cars, girls and friends.
Musically, however, this song was incredibly innovative, with an opening fuzz guitar, stop-start rhythms and a keyboard line working in and out of the song.
The song was written by Brian Wilson with contributions from Mike Love, it became the first Beach Boys recording after The Beatles took hold in America, and Brian Wilson responded with this rather complex creation.
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