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Product Description (Book). Beginning their career as a popular surf band, The Beach Boys had emerged by 1966 as America's preeminent pop group, the only act able to challenge the success of The Beatles with both mainstream listeners and the critical community. This book reconstructs their evolution to one of the best-produced groups of the '60s, and also profiles Brian Wilson, one of the most gifted songwriters, producers, and arrangers in popular music. The book's easy-to-browse, day-by-day format details their entire concert history, all known recording sessions, their broadcast history, and all records issued in the U.S. and the U.K. Review "It's great to see the details of the best years of our career collected with such love in one place." -- Brian Wilson About the Author Keith Badman is a regular contributor to Record Collector and Mojo magazines, and writer of three groundbreaking works on the Beatles, one of which (‘The Beatles After The Break Up’, was voted in the top ten essential Beatles book by Q magazine). Badman has also co-authored definitive works on The Rolling Stones and The Small Faces and been a film and video archive consultant for the BBC and others.