![]() The Beach Boys Today! album, the first fruit of that arrangement, turned out to be one of the best LPs the group ever released. While he stayed home cutting backing tracks, they spread his music all over the world. I knew I should have stopped going on tours much earlier to do justice to our recordings.”ġ965 saw the “new” Beach Boys that Brian Wilson envisioned working to perfection. No chance to actually sit down and think or even rest. to the point where I had no peace of mind. I was run down mentally and emotionally because I was running around, jumping on jets, one-night stands, singing, planning, teaching. When I told them, they were shook…I felt I had no choice. ![]() I’d already gone through my breakdown, and now it was their turn. That night, when I gave them the news of my decision, they all broke down. I told them I foresee a beautiful future for the Beach Boys group, but the only way we could achieve it was if they did their job and I did mine. Brian: “One night, I told the guys I wasn’t going to perform onstage any more, that I can’t travel. They finished that tour without me…I just wanted to sit and think and rest, pull myself together, check my life out, and once again evaluate what I am, what I am doing and what I should be doing.”īrian decided that if he was going to make the kind of records that were in his head, he would have to quit touring. , there were four Beach Boys on the road. As he later put it, “the rubber band had stretched as far as it would go. That night on the airplane, Brian Wilson broke down. On December 23, 1964, the Beach Boys left Los Angeles for a short concert tour. However, inside the band the pressure of maintaining that position was becoming too much for their musical leader to bear. To their fans, the Beach Boys were right up there with the Beatles as one of the top groups in rock. In addition to their remarkable chart success, 1964 was also the year that the Beach Boys took their music to ever bigger audiences via major television appearances, SRO tours and their first promotional trips to England and Europe. For example, the week of 12/5/64, Beach Boys Concert was enjoying one of its four weeks at #1 with All Summer Long at #12 and Shut Down, Volume 2, Surfer Girl and The Beach Boys Christmas albums scattered through the top 200. For several months, they often had as many as five LPs on the charts simultaneously, and their entire catalogue (with the exception of Surfin’ Safari) was selling exceptionally well. To buy this album from, click here: Today/ Summer Days (and Summer Nights)īy the fall of 1964, despite the fact that, in Brian Wilson’s words, “the Beatles had eclipsed a lot of what we’d worked for,” the Beach Boys own popularity had reached new heights. To download this album via iTunes, click here:
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