After The Beach Boys’ domestic album sales started suffering in the late 1960s and their squeaky clean surfer image fell out of favor, they co-wrote a song that helped them connect with America’s shaggy, drug-taking counterculture and regain their popularity. This is the story of that song, and the story of American pop music after the Summer of Love.
The Forgotten Song That Made The Beach Boys Cool Again
J.P. Robinson | Medium | June 12, 2017 | 3,520 words
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