The Beach Boys I Get Around

The Beach Boys vocal harmonies are among the most unmistakable and enduring of the rock and roll era. Among rock and roll groups of the Sixties, the California quintet place second only to the Beatles in terms of their overall impact on the Top 40. They were the Fab Four s most serious competitors on a creative level, too. Paul McCartney has allowed that the Beatles masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band, was their attempt to address the challenge posed by the Beach Boys magnum opus, Pet Sounds which itself was inspired by the British foursome s Rubber Soul. This creative dialogue between two of rock s greatest bands pushed popular music to an artistic peak. Paul McCartney noted that both Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper have more than held up. To me it s like, What have people been doing in the meantime Where s the progress I can t see anything as modern as that around at the The Beach Boys were a family affair that came together in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, California