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The Beach Boys and the California Myth

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Leaf added in the 1985 appendix that when he later saw Mike Love at a Beach Boys fan convention, Love "tried to burn a hole in my head with an endless, icy stare, and began his speech with acerbic remarks so obviously aimed at me that all heads in the room turned to see my reaction." Love referred to
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decreed, "If there is a flaw to Leaf's writing, it's that its praise of Brian Wilson is often unabashed, and his dominant creative role in the group arguably overstated." Music historian Luis Sanchez argued that Leaf's book presented a reductive view of the band's music being "meaningful exclusively
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Throughout the book, Leaf advances the argument that Brian had been victimized and artistically stifled by his record company and his bandmates. He writes, "If Brian sought refuge within drugs, in reaction to all the pressure, then everybody must share the blame—the record company, the family, the
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The book marked the first "serious study" devoted to Wilson's music, with photos and clippings interspersed throughout. Substantial coverage is devoted to the Wilson brothers' upbringing and Brian's formative musical influences. Leaf characterizes Brian during his adolescence as an affable
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as a "matchless" biography that "overshadows any book that documents the group's most successful years." Similarly in 2012, biographer Mark Dillon wrote that while the book remained "long out-of-print and succeeded by other bios about Brian and the group, its shadow looms over them all."
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contributor Gillian G. Gaar deemed the book "required reading", however, she bemoaned that Leaf "treads more carefully in discussing Beach Boys matters in the updates", surmising that it "may be due in part to Leaf's wariness about provoking more controversy."
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in terms of Brian Wilson's genius", although he applauded the addition of "Shades of Grey" in the 1985 edition, for it "adds some valuable insight to Leaf's original narrative, allowing it some breathing room where it seemed stifled and strict before."
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I came to California to test the myth, to meet the Beach Boys, looking for symbols. It wasn't long before my journey went too far. My journalistic investigations and excavations discovered more human suffering than I really wanted to know.
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called the book "an immersive, thoughtful, and incisive biography of Brian and the Beach Boys a perceptive and emotionally-centered look at complex genius".
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as "near-Shakespearean" in its telling of "innocence, hope, greed, and brutality", and an enlightenment of "the depth and wonder of Brian's work".
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Some reviewers found that Brian's bandmates, especially Mike Love, were marginalized in the original edition. Rock critic
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personality who was popular with his schoolmates, although shy and prone to follow the crowds to avoid social conflicts.
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with the ambition of authoring a book about Brian Wilson. After forming connections with the group, in 1977 he started a
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cover story on the band, "The Beach Boys: A California Saga". Following his college graduation in 1975, Leaf moved to
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In its significance to the band's mythology, Sanchez referred to the book as the first work that "put the '
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The book was influential in cementing a popular narrative of the band – one that caricatured
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God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
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God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
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Wouldn't It Be Nice: Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
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Beach Boys, and Brian’s entourage." The book contains negative depictions of
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Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
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cipher—essentially suburban yet somewhat inscrutable."
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sessions. Leaf draws upon new interviews with former
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Index


David Leaf
The Beach Boys
Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN
978-0448146256
OCLC
4333916
the Beach Boys
David Leaf
fanzine
Brian Wilson
tortured genius
Heroes and Villains
Catch a Wave
New Rochelle
New York
Tom Nolan
Rolling Stone
Los Angeles
fanzine
Pet Sounds
Grosset & Dunlap
Mike Love
Marilyn
Smile
Brother Records
David Anderle
Omnibus Press
Jimmy Webb

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