some meaty insights, new stories even the most diehard Beach Boys fan has never heard, and Love's own take on much-told tales.

'More than a half-century's worth of inside information about the Beach Boys.' - The New York Times ' is rich with Beach Boys info.

A husband, a father, and an avid environmentalist, Love has written a book that is as rich and layered as the Beach Boy harmonies themselves. The band's unprecedented durability also provides a glimpse into America's changing cultural mores over the past half century, while Love himself has experienced both the diabolical and the divine-from Charles Manson's family threatening his life to Maharishi instilling it with peace. His partnership with Brian has few equals in American pop music, though Mike has carved out a legacy of his own-he cowrote the lyrics to eleven of the twelve original Beach Boy songs that were Top 10 hits while providing he lead vocals on ten of them.

Love describes the stories behind his lyrics for pop classics such as Good Vibrations, California Girls, Surfin' USA, and Kokomo, while providing vivid portraits of the turbulent lives of his three gifted cousins, Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson. His own story has never been fully told, of how a sheet-metal apprentice became the quintessential front man for America's most successful rock band, singing in more than 5,600 concerts in twenty-six countries. The Beach Boys, from their California roots to their international fame, are a unique American story-one of overnight success and age-defying longevity of musical genius and reckless self-destruction of spirituality, betrayal, and forgiveness-and Love is the only band member to be part of it each and every step. As a founding member of the Beach Boys, Mike Love has spent an extraordinary fifty-five years-and counting-as the group's lead singer and one of its principal lyricists. Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling Good Vibrations tells the story of Mike Love's legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of the Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history.

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