The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961, whose popularity has lasted into the twenty-first century. The original group comprised singer-musician-composer Brian Wilson, his brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Alan Jardine. Many changes in both musical style and personnel occurred in their sometimes stormy career, which has been marked by the mental and drug-induced illnesses of Brian Wilson, the deaths of Dennis Wilson in 1983 and Carl Wilson in 1998, and continuing legal battles among surviving members of the group. The Beach Boys continue to tour, albeit with but a fraction of the original members, as of 2005. They have recorded dozens of top-forty hits, many best-selling albums, and four US #1 singles, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

External links

• Official Jan & Dean Fan Site (Related)
• Official site
• www.BeachBoys.com
• Vocal Group Hall of Fame page on The Beach Boys
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame page on The Beach Boys
• Brian Wilson's official site
• Beach Boys Britain
• Eric Aniversario's Beach Boys Setlist Archive
• The Mike Love Fan Club
• Bellagio 10452 - Timeline & Discography
• Mike Wheeler's Brian Wilson Page - CabinEssence
• Recording Industry Association of America Awards