The Beach Boys Facts for Kids

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The Beach Boys (1965)
Background information
Origin	Hawthorne, California, USA
Genres	Surf rock, Sunshine pop, Psychedelic pop, Psychedelic rock, Baroque pop, Art rock
Years active	1961-present
Labels	Capitol, Brother, Reprise, Caribou, X Records, Ariola, Columbia

Members	Al Jardine Bruce Johnston Mike Love David Marks Brian Wilson

Past members	Carl Wilson Dennis Wilson Ricky Fataar Blondie Chaplin Glen Campbell

The Beach Boys are an American pop/surf rock group from Hawthorne, California. They formed in 1961, and the original members were Brian Wilson (keyboards, bass guitar), his brothers Dennis Wilson (drums) and Carl Wilson (lead guitar), their cousin Mike Love (lead vocals), and close friend Al Jardine (rhythm guitar). David Marks replaced Jardine when he went away to school; after Jardine's return, Marks left the band. Bruce Johnston (keyboards) later became a regular band member, first replacing Brian Wilson on tour, then joining in on recording sessions. Many of the band's songs were about life in southern California, the beach, girls, cars, and surfing (though Dennis Wilson and Bruce Johnston were actually the only members in the group who surfed).

The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and influential bands of all time. They were one of the earliest self-contained rock bands and one of the few US bands who maintained their success before, during and after the 1964 British Invasion. Between the 1960s and 2010s, they had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them in the US Top 40 charts (the most by a US rock band), and four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling bands of all time and are listed at No. 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2017, a study of AllMusic's catalog indicated the Beach Boys as the 6th most frequently cited artist influence in its database. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

Discography

Studio albums

Surfin' Safari (1962)
Surfin' U.S.A. (1963)
Surfer Girl (1963)
Little Deuce Coupe (1963)
Shut Down Volume 2 (1964)
All Summer Long (1964)
The Beach Boys' Christmas Album (1964)
Friends (album)|Friends (1965)
The Beach Boys Today! (1965)
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (1965)
Beach Boys' Party! (1965)
Pet Sounds (1966)
Smiley Smile (1967)
Wild Honey (1967)
Friends (album)|Friends (1968)
20/20 (album)|20/20 (1969)
Sunflower (album)|Sunflower (1970)
Surf's Up (1971)
Carl and the Passions - "So Tough" (1972)
Holland (album)|Holland (1973)
15 Big Ones (1976)
Love You (1977)
M.I.U. Album (1978)
L.A. (Light Album) (1979)
Keepin' the Summer Alive (1980)
The Beach Boys (album)|The Beach Boys (1985)
Still Cruisin' (1989)
Summer in Paradise (1992)
Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 (1996)
That's Why God Made the Radio (2012)

Images for kids

The historical landmark in Hawthorne, California marking where the Wilson family home once stood
In Pendleton outfits, performing at a local high school in late 1962
Performing "I Get Around" on The Ed Sullivan Show in September 1964
During a 1964 photoshoot
Brian Wilson working at a Pet Sounds session in early 1966
An original "God Only Knows" lyric manuscript exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio
Van Dyke Parks, Brian's lyricist and collaborator for the unfinished album Smile
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1973
Performing in Central Park for a 1971 ABC Television special
(Left to right) Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Ricky Fataar, Dennis Wilson, Blondie Chaplin and Mike Love in 1972
15 Big Ones (1976) included a stylized version of the Beach Boys' name by Dean Torrence, which later became their official logo
Brian Wilson behind Brother Studios' mixing console in 1976
Performing a concert in 1978
The touring line-up of Mike Love and Bruce Johnston's "The Beach Boys Band", plus guest member David Marks, in 2008
Reunited in 2012, performing "Heroes and Villains" in tribute to Smile
Love (far left) and Johnston (far right) performing as the Beach Boys in 2014
The Beach Boys performing in 1964
An original handwritten manuscript of the lyrics to "God Only Knows"
A Rickenbacker 360/12 identical to the 12-string guitar used by Carl Wilson in the early to mid-1960s
The 1932 Ford that appeared on the cover to the platinum certified Little Deuce Coupe album
The Beach Boys with President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the White House, June 12, 1983
The Beach Boys' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 1500 Vine Street

The Beach Boys facts for kids

Discography

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