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[Brian] Basically, our forte is harmonics,
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'cause there's a certain family blend.
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[harmonizing]
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Three brothers: Brian, Dennis and Carl,
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a cousin, Mike Love,
and our good friend Al Jardine.
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That's family to me.
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[audience cheering]
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[announcer 1] Ladies and gentlemen,
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would you please welcome,
from Southern California,
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America's band, The Beach Boys!
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[cheering continues]
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I like it. I like it.
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["Fun, Fun, Fun" playing]
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[Dick Clark]
There is no other. There is only one.
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They've broken records everywhere.
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Ladies and gentlemen, The Beach Boys!
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[cheering]
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♪ Well, she got her daddy's car ♪
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♪ and she cruised through
the hamburger stand, now ♪
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♪ Seems she forgot all about the library
like she told her old man, now ♪
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♪ And with the radio blasting ♪
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♪ Goes cruising
Just as fast as she can, now ♪
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♪ And she'll have fun, fun, fun ♪
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♪ Now that Daddy took the T-bird away ♪
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[Venet] The Beach Boys
just represented some sort of fantasy.
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It was a pure California phenomenon.
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["Wouldn't It Be Nice" playing]
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[Carl] We've known each other
for a really long time.
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And there really is a great deal
of fellowship in the group.
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And we've been through an awful lot.
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♪ Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? ♪
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♪ Then we wouldn't have to wait so long ♪
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♪ And wouldn't it be nice
to live together ♪
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♪ In the kind of world where we belong? ♪
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[Love] It's kinda miraculous that
it's lasted for 60 years now.
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But the fact that it was a family,
that's where the success came from.
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[audience cheering]
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{\an8}♪ You know it seems
the more we talk about it ♪
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{\an8}♪ It only makes it worse
to live without it ♪
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{\an8}♪ But let's talk about it ♪
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♪ Oh, wouldn't it be nice? ♪
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♪ Good night, my baby ♪
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♪ Sleep tight, my baby ♪
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♪ Good night, my baby ♪
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[music fades, ends]
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[Brian] Here we go.
Play hard and strong all the way.
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And watch me on that part now.
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[crew] Twenty-eight.
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["Good Vibrations" playing]
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[Love]
When I assess the totality of it all,
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The Beach Boys are a family story.
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There has definitely been ups and downs.
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We've probably been counted out
as a group, um, half a dozen times.
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[Brian] When I was young,
I learned to sing harmony with my family.
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That was a long time ago.
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I remember the songs,
the lyrics, and a lot of fun.
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I'm very proud of my brothers.
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[music fades]
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[Brian] Let's try it
one more time from the top.
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One, two, one, two...
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["Rag Mop" playing]
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♪ M ♪
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♪ I say M-O ♪
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[Brian] I had two things
I wanted to do in my life.
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One, I wanted to be a psychologist,
you know?
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{\an8}And two, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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♪ Mop, mop, mop, mop ♪
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But I never really set music as my goal.
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My dad and my mom always put on records.
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And I said,
"What's that? I love that sound!"
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{\an8}[Carl] My dad was a songwriter,
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and he had a minor R & B hit.
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But, you know,
my mom was actually the musician,
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{\an8}so she would play and my dad would write.
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{\an8}So there was a lot of music in the house.
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[Carl] My mom and dad
both really loved older tunes.
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But I was more interested
with rock and roll.
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["Let It Rock" playing]
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♪ In the heat of the day
down in Mobile, Alabama ♪
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And I'll never forget
the feeling in my body.
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It was like electricity.
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I'd never experienced
that kind of excitement.
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Chuck Berry was the reason
I started playing the guitar.
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♪ Payday coming when my work is all done ♪
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[Dennis] On a social level,
I never really spent any time with Brian.
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I spent more time with Carl.
Because I could beat Carl up.
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♪ Everybody's scrambling
and jumping around ♪
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♪ Picking up their money
Tearing the teepee down ♪
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[Dennis] Brian's influence on me
was his love for the music.
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♪ You have to let it roll on ♪
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[Dennis] First time I realized it was--
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We used to sing three-part harmony
in the back seat of a car.
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[harmonizing]
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And that's the birth
of the three brothers singing together.
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[harmonizing continues]
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[birds chirping]
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[Marks] When I was about seven,
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we moved into a house on the borderline
between Inglewood and Hawthorne.
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{\an8}And across the street from our house
was the Wilson house.
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["Sloop John B" playing]
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As we were moving in, Carl and Dennis
were throwing garbage and old car parts
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across the street.
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And saying,
"Inglewood sucks. Hawthorne rules!"
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That was our introduction.
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And I didn't like my parents very much,
so I hung out at the Wilsons'.
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[Love] The Wilson household
was a tract home in Hawthorne.
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{\an8}And the garage was converted
into a music room.
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And we would spend hours
listening to music and singing.
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[Carl] And the big event of the year
for us would be to go over to Mike Love's
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at Christmastime because the Loves
would have a big Christmas caroling party.
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[Love] Growing up as the first cousin
of the Wilsons,
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it was such a family hobby
harmonizing together.
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And we had a grand piano,
an organ and a harp in our living room.
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Brian and I hit it off
because we were about a year apart in age,
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and we liked a lot of the same music.
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A lot of the doo-wop. The Everly Brothers.
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The Four Freshmen.
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{\an8}[Brian] The Four Freshmen were probably
the greatest four-part harmony group
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{\an8}that ever lived.
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The notes were close together,
which gave it a warmth and a vibration.
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[Love]
It was a lot of fun singing together.
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But Brian somehow figured out the chords
the Four Freshmen were doing just by ear.
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That was--
That was a whole different world.
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[Carl] Brian was spending hours every day
at the piano
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just going over and over
these Four Freshmen arrangements.
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["It's A Blue World" playing]
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♪ It's a blue world ♪
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{\an8}[Brian] I never quit.
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{\an8}To where I knew that what was on
my piano was exactly on their record.
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♪ It's a blue world ♪
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[Brian] I went and did that on, like,
20 different songs,
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which was my entire harmonic education.
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[Carl] Later on, he started making up
his own arrangements.
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He would ask me to sing a harmony part
that he'd make up.
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And I remember wanting to go out and play,
and he'd say, "Mom, make Carl sing."
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[Jardine] Brian and I
were on the football team in high school.
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And I'd heard his band
at the high school assembly,
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and that's really
what got my brain going, "Wow!"
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I was a guitar player, and I was
very impressed with his little quartet.
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Including his brother Carl,
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with Brian taking the falsetto.
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And I thought we should hook up.
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We bumped into each other
after graduation.
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Brian said, "You know, I think
I should introduce you to my brothers
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and my cousin,
because we need more voices."
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So he invited me over to the house,
and we all just clicked.
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We were like notes on a keyboard.
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[piano playing]
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[Brian] Now, this time
let's sing it out naturally.
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- Don't hold back.
- [Jardine] All right.
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[Mike] Al Jardine, actually, was
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the one person who could maintain
perfect pitch and changing harmonies
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that were derivative of the Four Freshmen.
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[Dennis] Forget time and beat
and everything.
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[Brian] No! We don't want to forget beat.
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{\an8}[Jardine] We assembled around the piano
as Brian and his brothers.
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{\an8}Plus me and his cousin Mike.
That was our band.
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{\an8}Our first thing we ever learned
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was a tune called,
"Their Hearts Were Full of Spring."
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♪ There's a story told ♪
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♪ Of a very gentle boy ♪
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[Love] Brian would sing
the high part beautifully.
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And I would sing the bass part.
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And then Carl and Al Jardine
could sing really well and blend.
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See, it wasn't only about the note.
It was about the blend.
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You sublimate your individuality
to create this group harmony sound.
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♪ Their hearts were full of spring ♪
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{\an8}[Brian] After that, we'd go,
"Hey, look out for us.
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{\an8}We really harmonize here."
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Then we kind of went the other way.
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["Misirlou" playing]
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[Marks] Carl and I would hang out
every day after school.
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And we were listening
to a lot of current surf stuff.
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The Ventures.
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The Marketts.
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{\an8}Dick Dale.
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{\an8}[music continues]
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Kids would go to the high-school
auditorium to watch surfing movies.
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And that's what they were using
as background music.
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Surfing was a big deal
in Southern California.
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You dressed a certain way.
You talked a certain way.
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They had a certain attitude.
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[music continues]
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[Carl] We all tried to surf,
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but we could just
never really get the hang of it.
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[Jardine] I went surfing down
on Manhattan Beach Pier.
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It was a big day on the pier, man.
There were great big waves!
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And the first thing I did
was lose my board.
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And I almost drowned.
Brian was the same way.
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I tried the one time, and the board missed
my head by that far.
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I never tried again. [laughs]
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We were landlubbers,
but Dennis was the guy.
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[Dennis] I was into surfing.
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{\an8}I was into cutting class,
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sneaking off to the beach.
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I love the ocean.
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{\an8}[Love] Dennis and I went
to the beach one time
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{\an8}and we came back to the Wilson house,
and Dennis brought it up to Brian,
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he said, "Why don't we do something
lyrically about surfing?"
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At the time,
surf music was primarily instrumental.
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The bands were instrumental bands.
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So, I just got with Brian
and came up with...
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♪ Surfin' is the only life
The only way for me ♪
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♪ Now surf
Surf ♪
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{\an8}[Carl] The first time The Beach Boys
got together as a band to rehearse...
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{\an8}my folks went to Mexico City on business.
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[Brian] They left us 200 bucks for food.
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[Jardine] The money ran out immediately.
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I said, "Brian,
we can't just sit around and sing.
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We gotta rent some instruments."
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{\an8}So I said, "Well, I think my mother,
Virginia, would probably help us out
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{\an8}if we audition for her."
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{\an8}We sang
"Their Hearts Were Full of Spring."
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That was our go-to song.
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And she was spellbound.
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She gave us the $300
to rent the equipment,
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and she said, "Go for it."
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Gives me chills just thinking about it.
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[Brian] Put the monitor on.
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♪ Surfin', surfin' ♪
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[vocalizing]
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[Carl] Hey, you're wasting tape.
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[Brian] Keep your heads up,
and stay on it.
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♪ Surfin', surfin' ♪
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[Jardine] Murry and Audree were only gone
for about two or three weeks,
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but we-- we were a band by then.
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[Brian] He goes, "I thought that money
was supposed to be for food.
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What are you guys doing?"
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So we played him a song and he goes,
"Hey, I like that."
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My uncle Murry was actually the one
who got us in the studio.
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♪ So come along, baby, and surf ♪
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[Hite Morgan] Okay, boys. Slating.
This will be take one, "Surfin'."
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♪ Surfin' is the only life
The only way for me ♪
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♪ Now surf ♪
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[Carl] The first session,
Al played acoustic bass.
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I played an acoustic guitar.
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Brian played a drum with a pencil.
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And Michael was on vocals.
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♪ I got up this morning
Turned on my radio ♪
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♪ I was checking out the surfin' scene
To see if I would go ♪
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[Love] We were calling ourselves
The Pendletones.
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Those were shirts that all the surfers
were wearing at the time.
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[Love] And then somebody from the label
said, "The song is called 'Surfin'.'
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What about The Beach Boys?"
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[Jardine] None of us really liked it.
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And we got stuck with it. [laughs]
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[Love] We put out "Surfin'"
on a small, independent label.
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A month later, we heard it on the radio.
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[switching radio stations]
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["Surfin'" playing]
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[Love] There was a radio station
that premiered, like, four songs a week.
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And the one that got the most call-ins
won the contest.
255
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Well, we had a big family. [laughs]
256
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And they go, "The pick
of the week, 'Surfin'' by The Beach Boys!"
257
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And we were out of our minds.
258
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♪ It's the latest dance craze ♪
259
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♪ We're going surfin' ♪
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[Love] "Surfin'" went to number two in LA,
and then we started getting gigs.
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[Jardine]
Played our first show on New Year's Eve.
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In the midst of it all,
263
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Dennis was learning the drums
quite proficiently.
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I was really impressed.
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{\an8}[Brian] The way it started out real fast,
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{\an8}we didn't have a chance to sit around
and think, "Hey, what happened?"
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{\an8}We were already heading towards something
without really knowing it.
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♪ Surfin' is the only life ♪
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[distorted] ♪ The only way for me ♪
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[music ends]
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We had a hit record. Went to top 10 in LA,
and we were excited as hell.
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But I felt like I-- I don't know.
273
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I had to finish my education.
That's what I thought.
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My brother is a lawyer.
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My father has a business master's degree,
and my mother is--
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You know, they all had degrees.
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Just felt like I was out of place
for a while.
278
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So I left the band to finish college.
279
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It's the only time Brian
ever got upset with me.
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{\an8}[Marks] I wasn't in the band,
but I'd been hanging around.
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I was, like, 12.
282
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And Carl and I would play guitars
every day after school.
283
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We were developing our own style.
284
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And Brian, his ear picked up on that.
285
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So, all of a sudden...
286
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{\an8}I was a Beach Boy.
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{\an8}["Karate" playing]
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[Carl] After "Surfin'" was a hit,
Brian really wanted a career in music.
289
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So my dad sold his business
and cleared the deck,
290
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and then went about getting us
a record label.
291
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[engine revving]
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He went around all the record labels
in Hollywood.
293
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Every one of them turned us down.
294
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Eventually, a man named Nick Venet,
who worked at Capitol Records,
295
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heard the tape of our stuff.
296
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[Venet] They had a demo
of "Surfin' Safari."
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And every once in a while, you know
that the record is a number one record.
298
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And he goes, "Oh, God.
These records are goddamn smashes."
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[shutters clicking]
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[Love] We were able to sign with
Capitol Records, which was a big deal.
301
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Some great artists on it.
302
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The Four Freshmen were on, and
Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, you know?
303
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I said, "I quit college."
304
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And my brothers said,
"We quit high school."
305
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You know, we quit!
306
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{\an8}[Love] I was the only person
who didn't need the court approval.
307
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{\an8}I was 21 and everybody else
was quite a bit younger.
308
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{\an8}And Capitol Records got us
in the studio immediately.
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[chattering]
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[Brian] Yeah. Hey, Dennis.
Don't forget that last verse, okay?
311
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That first recording session
was in the basement of Capitol Records.
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[Venet] Here we go, 38221.
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{\an8}[Brian] At first, it was really
quite overwhelming, you know?
314
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{\an8}Just to watch the recording process.
315
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[Venet] We're speeding it a bit.
316
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We're rushing it.
Slow it down a little bit.
317
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Get the feel on the bass guitar.
Get that groove going.
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There we go. 38221.
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[guitar strumming]
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Brian's brilliant harmonies, and me
and Carl playing garage grunge guitars.
321
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People never heard anything like that.
322
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[engineer]
All right. This will be take one.
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♪ Let's go surfin' now
Everybody's learning how ♪
324
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♪ Come on and safari with me ♪
325
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♪ Come on and safari with ♪
326
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♪ Early in the mornin'
We'll be starting out ♪
327
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♪ Some honeys will be coming along ♪
328
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[Love] Murry was our manager,
and he was good at promotion.
329
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[Marks] He would be handing out
pictures to kids in the parking lot.
330
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♪ Come on, baby
Wait and see ♪
331
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I mean,
he was promoting the shit out of us.
332
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[audience cheering]
333
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[announcer] Here they are with a big new
hit, The Beach Boys with "Surfin' Safari."
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[cheering continues]
335
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♪ Let's go surfin' now
Everybody's learning how ♪
336
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♪ Come on and safari with me ♪
337
00:20:09,918 --> 00:20:11,252
♪ Come on and safari with ♪
338
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[Kun] I grew up in Los Angeles,
but I never identified with beach culture.
339
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{\an8}And when I first heard
The Beach Boys' music,
340
00:20:22,847 --> 00:20:26,059
{\an8}my response was to reject it.
341
00:20:26,851 --> 00:20:29,562
They were part of a marketing blitz
342
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for a culture that
I wanted nothing to do with.
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The song selection.
The way the album covers were shot.
344
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It was a concocted image.
345
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♪ Let's go surfin' now
Everybody's learning how ♪
346
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And that image of the white,
blond Southern California teenager
347
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took off.
348
00:20:49,165 --> 00:20:51,001
["Surfin' U.S.A." playing]
349
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{\an8}♪ If everybody had an ocean
Across the USA ♪
350
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{\an8}♪ Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like Californ-I-A ♪
351
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[Kun] But the more you listen
to the records they made,
352
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it wasn't about that.
353
00:21:06,975 --> 00:21:08,810
They went beyond surfing.
354
00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:14,524
They were participating in the creation
of a California dream.
355
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- ♪ You'll catch 'em surfin' at Del Mar ♪
- ♪ Inside, outside USA ♪
356
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[Was] I grew up in Detroit.
I had a paper route in the wintertime.
357
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I walked to school in the wintertime.
358
00:21:24,784 --> 00:21:27,579
And then on weekends,
I'd go see Beach Blanket Bingo,
359
00:21:27,579 --> 00:21:28,663
or one of those movies.
360
00:21:28,663 --> 00:21:33,335
{\an8}So, I was aware that there were places
that were warmer.
361
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{\an8}[laughs]
362
00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:37,589
♪ Surfin' USA ♪
363
00:21:37,589 --> 00:21:42,469
But the most articulate spokespeople
for the California dream
364
00:21:42,469 --> 00:21:43,678
were The Beach Boys.
365
00:21:44,304 --> 00:21:49,267
Man, they made me wanna go
to that place where they had cars
366
00:21:49,267 --> 00:21:52,520
and girls in bikinis and surf boards.
367
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,023
And sun and warmth. [laughs]
368
00:21:55,023 --> 00:21:56,941
I really wanted to be a part of that.
369
00:21:56,941 --> 00:22:00,820
- ♪ Haggerties and Swami's ♪
- ♪ Inside, outside USA ♪
370
00:22:01,446 --> 00:22:03,156
[Tedder] I grew up
in a very religious home,
371
00:22:03,156 --> 00:22:06,493
so I was predominantly only allowed
to listen to gospel music.
372
00:22:07,869 --> 00:22:10,455
{\an8}But my mom was okay with me
playing The Beach Boys
373
00:22:10,455 --> 00:22:13,583
{\an8}because she thought
they're positive, they're uplifting.
374
00:22:13,583 --> 00:22:17,879
That was huge for me, um,
because I was obsessed at an early age
375
00:22:17,879 --> 00:22:20,256
with getting out of Oklahoma.
376
00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:22,467
- [music continues]
- [cow moos]
377
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I think particularly landlocked states
dead center of the country,
378
00:22:29,099 --> 00:22:32,394
the appeal was even greater
because it was, like, foreign.
379
00:22:32,394 --> 00:22:33,687
It's a foreign sound.
380
00:22:39,442 --> 00:22:40,610
♪ Everybody's gone surfin' ♪
381
00:22:40,610 --> 00:22:43,196
Their music takes you someplace.
382
00:22:43,196 --> 00:22:45,573
You can listen to "Surfin' U.S.A.,"
383
00:22:45,573 --> 00:22:50,412
and geographically your brain
goes to sunny Southern California.
384
00:22:51,538 --> 00:22:54,666
♪ Everybody's gone surfin' ♪
385
00:22:54,666 --> 00:22:56,668
♪ Surfin' USA ♪
386
00:22:56,668 --> 00:22:58,503
{\an8}[Jardine] It just hit America
like a big wave.
387
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They were selling an image, and the music
was alive and vibrant and exciting.
388
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,306
All around the world,
people were listening to Beach Boy music.
389
00:23:10,807 --> 00:23:11,808
[music fades]
390
00:23:11,808 --> 00:23:14,394
I was having this, like,
"Gosh, maybe I shouldn't have quit."
391
00:23:14,394 --> 00:23:15,520
Then I got a call.
392
00:23:16,604 --> 00:23:19,524
Brian was frantic.
Says, "I can't do this."
393
00:23:19,524 --> 00:23:22,235
He says, "You gotta come.
You gotta come back to the band."
394
00:23:23,111 --> 00:23:24,612
[Marks] Brian didn't like touring,
395
00:23:25,655 --> 00:23:29,075
'cause all he wanted to do was stay home
and produce records and write songs.
396
00:23:30,076 --> 00:23:33,371
[Jardine] I was the only one Brian could
reach out to because I knew all the parts.
397
00:23:34,289 --> 00:23:37,042
I thought, you know,
the guys really need me.
398
00:23:37,042 --> 00:23:38,293
I miss the music.
399
00:23:39,085 --> 00:23:40,211
{\an8}So I said, "Okay, Brian.
400
00:23:42,714 --> 00:23:43,715
{\an8}I'm back."
401
00:23:43,715 --> 00:23:44,799
{\an8}["Little Deuce Coupe" playing]
402
00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:48,261
♪ Little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got ♪
403
00:23:48,261 --> 00:23:50,889
[Jardine] The next day,
we were on the road touring.
404
00:23:50,889 --> 00:23:54,517
♪ Well, I'm not bragging, babe
So don't put me down ♪
405
00:23:54,517 --> 00:23:56,519
[Love] I can remember
getting to Lake Minnetonka.
406
00:23:56,519 --> 00:24:00,065
People were breaking the windows
trying to get into the place.
407
00:24:00,065 --> 00:24:04,194
And there's still a line of cars
about a mile or two down the road.
408
00:24:04,194 --> 00:24:06,571
[audience cheering]
409
00:24:08,031 --> 00:24:10,241
[Dennis] I remember the first time
we heard girls screaming.
410
00:24:10,241 --> 00:24:12,369
We thought there was a fire. [chuckles]
411
00:24:12,369 --> 00:24:13,661
We looked around.
412
00:24:13,661 --> 00:24:15,705
[audience screaming]
413
00:24:16,790 --> 00:24:18,833
[Marks] We were all just,
you know, having a ball.
414
00:24:19,376 --> 00:24:22,796
And, meanwhile, Brian was able
to stay home and do his thing.
415
00:24:24,255 --> 00:24:26,758
[Love] He was writing a ton of songs.
416
00:24:26,758 --> 00:24:28,635
And because we were on tour,
417
00:24:28,635 --> 00:24:31,596
I wasn't the only person writing with him
at that time.
418
00:24:31,596 --> 00:24:33,640
So he co-wrote things with others.
419
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,310
♪ She's got a competition clutch
with the four on the floor ♪
420
00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:40,897
♪ And she purrs like a kitten
'til the lake pipes roar ♪
421
00:24:40,897 --> 00:24:43,650
[Jardine] I enjoyed the road.
I thought it was fun.
422
00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:46,403
But Murry wasn't a very fun road manager.
423
00:24:46,403 --> 00:24:49,030
♪ I got the pink slip, Daddy ♪
424
00:24:49,030 --> 00:24:52,033
On many levels, Murry had a lot to do
with our success.
425
00:24:52,701 --> 00:24:55,453
But Murry started to infringe
on the music.
426
00:24:55,453 --> 00:24:56,913
Oh, he would critique, all right.
427
00:24:56,913 --> 00:24:59,165
He said we didn't know what we were doing.
428
00:24:59,165 --> 00:25:01,459
And we would have a certain sound in mind,
429
00:25:01,459 --> 00:25:03,294
and he'd want it to be different.
430
00:25:03,878 --> 00:25:06,798
[Marks] He would actually come onstage
and adjust my amp.
431
00:25:06,798 --> 00:25:09,384
Of course I'd go back
and put it the way I wanted it.
432
00:25:09,384 --> 00:25:13,221
And he'd call me over, and he ripped me
a new one for not smiling onstage,
433
00:25:13,221 --> 00:25:15,181
or not having enough treble on my guitar.
434
00:25:16,516 --> 00:25:20,020
Eventually, I just got mad at him
because he was yelling at me,
435
00:25:20,020 --> 00:25:22,605
so I said, "I quit the band."
436
00:25:23,356 --> 00:25:26,192
And Murry goes, "Everybody hear that?
He quits the band."
437
00:25:27,694 --> 00:25:31,197
I loved Murry a lot,
but that wasn't really fair.
438
00:25:32,490 --> 00:25:35,744
I was some arrogant 15-year-old.
What the hell do you expect?
439
00:25:36,745 --> 00:25:40,832
And so, after four albums as a Beach Boy,
that was over.
440
00:25:42,167 --> 00:25:45,587
Brian was totally upset, 'cause he knew
what the consequences were gonna be.
441
00:25:45,587 --> 00:25:49,090
He would have to be on the road more
if I left.
442
00:25:49,090 --> 00:25:50,925
["Little Surfer Girl" playing]
443
00:25:58,266 --> 00:26:00,268
[Wilson-Rutherford]
When I was in high school,
444
00:26:00,268 --> 00:26:03,355
{\an8}my friend says,
"I know these guys called The Beach Boys."
445
00:26:03,355 --> 00:26:05,899
{\an8}"Would you like to see their show?"
446
00:26:05,899 --> 00:26:12,489
♪ Little surfer
Little one ♪
447
00:26:12,489 --> 00:26:14,616
[Wilson-Rutherford]
I grew up in West Hollywood,
448
00:26:14,616 --> 00:26:17,786
and there was this coffee house
called Pandora's Box.
449
00:26:18,661 --> 00:26:20,246
We were sitting in the first row,
450
00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:22,415
and I remember Brian looked at me
and he went,
451
00:26:22,415 --> 00:26:24,834
"Hey, can I have a sip
of your hot chocolate?"
452
00:26:25,919 --> 00:26:27,671
I gave him a sip of it.
When he gave it back to me,
453
00:26:27,671 --> 00:26:29,923
it spilled on me. [chuckles]
454
00:26:29,923 --> 00:26:32,759
It was funny. [laughs]
455
00:26:36,388 --> 00:26:39,057
You know, before long, I was dating Brian.
456
00:26:39,849 --> 00:26:43,061
♪ I will make your dreams come true ♪
457
00:26:43,061 --> 00:26:44,479
He had a great personality.
458
00:26:44,479 --> 00:26:46,064
I mean, he was so much fun.
459
00:26:46,898 --> 00:26:49,693
But he was very cerebral
when it came to music.
460
00:26:50,402 --> 00:26:51,444
And, at the time,
461
00:26:51,444 --> 00:26:55,365
I was singing with my cousin Ginger
and my sister Diane.
462
00:26:55,365 --> 00:26:58,326
So we started making records with Brian
and for Capitol.
463
00:26:58,326 --> 00:27:03,331
♪ Girl, surfer girl
My little surfer girl ♪
464
00:27:03,331 --> 00:27:05,417
[Wilson-Rutherford]
Music was our whole life.
465
00:27:05,417 --> 00:27:06,668
It was everything.
466
00:27:06,668 --> 00:27:11,006
♪ Girl, surfer girl
My little surfer girl ♪
467
00:27:11,006 --> 00:27:13,967
Brian would tell me that he just wanted
to be home and make records,
468
00:27:13,967 --> 00:27:15,301
you know, and write and all that.
469
00:27:16,011 --> 00:27:18,179
And the guys had a hard time
understanding that,
470
00:27:18,179 --> 00:27:20,432
because, you know,
going out on the road was fun.
471
00:27:20,974 --> 00:27:23,226
But it wasn't fun for Brian.
472
00:27:23,226 --> 00:27:24,728
["In My Room" playing]
473
00:27:25,812 --> 00:27:28,606
[Brian] I mean, I've tried to work
around people, and I can do it.
474
00:27:29,482 --> 00:27:31,026
It's a little hard, you know?
475
00:27:31,026 --> 00:27:33,445
But when I go alone, I can think.
476
00:27:33,445 --> 00:27:35,280
You know,
and I can get some stuff together.
477
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:45,957
♪ There's a world where I can go ♪
478
00:27:45,957 --> 00:27:51,713
♪ Tell my secrets to ♪
479
00:27:51,713 --> 00:27:57,802
♪ In my room ♪
480
00:27:58,511 --> 00:28:01,514
♪ In my room ♪
481
00:28:01,514 --> 00:28:03,516
[Brian] I think that music
is very healing.
482
00:28:04,142 --> 00:28:05,810
It puts me into a quiet place
483
00:28:05,810 --> 00:28:08,063
to create or to do
what I'm supposed to do.
484
00:28:09,481 --> 00:28:11,358
[Was] I've worked with Brian,
485
00:28:11,358 --> 00:28:15,111
and the way to talk with him
is through the language of music.
486
00:28:15,779 --> 00:28:17,280
You can get close to him that way.
487
00:28:18,990 --> 00:28:20,408
That's a secret language.
488
00:28:21,368 --> 00:28:25,038
And I think Mike understood
the complexity of Brian.
489
00:28:26,247 --> 00:28:29,334
♪ In my room ♪
490
00:28:29,334 --> 00:28:32,754
[Love] Whereas Brian
was innately gifted musically,
491
00:28:33,296 --> 00:28:35,632
I was more into the lyrics
and the concepts.
492
00:28:36,299 --> 00:28:38,385
And so it was a good partnership there.
493
00:28:39,511 --> 00:28:43,932
[Was] Some people maybe denigrate them
for those early songs being simple.
494
00:28:44,557 --> 00:28:45,975
But I think that's a virtue.
495
00:28:46,518 --> 00:28:50,313
Songs about having fun and love
and unrequited love.
496
00:28:50,313 --> 00:28:53,191
It was perfect music for a teenager, man.
497
00:28:53,191 --> 00:28:55,735
[Brian] They could understand that.
They could relate to it.
498
00:28:55,735 --> 00:28:56,820
They could feel it.
499
00:28:57,362 --> 00:28:59,823
Simplicity is what got us going.
500
00:28:59,823 --> 00:29:01,282
[audience screaming]
501
00:29:05,954 --> 00:29:09,207
[Jardine] With Brian's wonderful ability
to write melodies
502
00:29:09,207 --> 00:29:11,960
and Mike's very clever way
of writing lyrics,
503
00:29:12,460 --> 00:29:13,962
we found a perfect formula.
504
00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:17,215
But when it got to the point
of going onstage,
505
00:29:18,216 --> 00:29:19,634
Mike was lead singer.
506
00:29:19,634 --> 00:29:20,802
♪ Giddy up ♪
507
00:29:22,178 --> 00:29:24,014
He developed that persona quite early.
508
00:29:24,014 --> 00:29:27,100
♪ Well, I'm a long, tall Texan ♪
509
00:29:27,851 --> 00:29:30,186
♪ I ride a big, white horse ♪
510
00:29:30,186 --> 00:29:34,190
♪ He rides from Texas
on a big, white horse ♪
511
00:29:34,190 --> 00:29:37,277
♪ Well, I'm a long, tall Texan ♪
512
00:29:38,028 --> 00:29:40,363
♪ I ride a big, white horse ♪
513
00:29:40,363 --> 00:29:43,033
{\an8}[Love] Ultimately,
I think Brian was melancholy.
514
00:29:43,033 --> 00:29:47,120
{\an8}So I complemented Brian's melancholy
with my upbeatness.
515
00:29:48,413 --> 00:29:50,832
♪ Hurrah, hurrah
Is that your hat? ♪
516
00:29:50,832 --> 00:29:52,959
♪ He rides from Texas
with a ten-gallon hat ♪
517
00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:54,169
♪ Yeah ♪
518
00:29:54,169 --> 00:29:56,921
[Wilson-Rutherford] All the guys
loved that Mike was so funny.
519
00:29:56,921 --> 00:29:59,549
You know, I mean, they would really
give off of each other.
520
00:30:00,633 --> 00:30:03,053
And Brian thought
that Mike was the greatest front man.
521
00:30:03,803 --> 00:30:08,266
I, personally, always preferred live music
to the studio.
522
00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:11,019
There's no feedback in the studio.
523
00:30:11,019 --> 00:30:16,566
But in live music, you see the effect that
the music has on the people immediately.
524
00:30:17,233 --> 00:30:20,403
It's so positive. So much joy.
525
00:30:20,403 --> 00:30:23,656
♪ My spurs jinglin' down at my feet ♪
526
00:30:25,033 --> 00:30:29,454
♪ I seen a man a-comin'
Comin' with a gun and ♪
527
00:30:29,454 --> 00:30:33,583
♪ I just can't be beat ♪
528
00:30:33,583 --> 00:30:35,585
[audience cheering]
529
00:30:38,046 --> 00:30:40,048
[harmonizing]
530
00:30:46,721 --> 00:30:50,558
♪ Now here we are together ♪
531
00:30:50,558 --> 00:30:54,062
♪ This would've been
worth waiting forever ♪
532
00:30:54,771 --> 00:30:59,776
♪ I always knew it'd feel this way ♪
533
00:31:03,863 --> 00:31:07,200
[Buckingham] The Beach Boys
came into the popular consciousness
534
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,454
with the mythology of surfing
and the California lifestyle.
535
00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:15,917
{\an8}That fueled a lot
of young people's imaginations.
536
00:31:15,917 --> 00:31:21,464
♪ Baby, please let me wonder ♪
537
00:31:21,464 --> 00:31:24,217
[Buckingham] Those of us who lived up
in Northern California
538
00:31:24,217 --> 00:31:29,222
tended to be somewhat opinionated
about Los Angeles. [laughs]
539
00:31:29,222 --> 00:31:34,644
But what made the group transcend that
was they had this guy Brian Wilson.
540
00:31:35,812 --> 00:31:41,109
I was quite taken with him as a craftsman,
as a producer.
541
00:31:41,985 --> 00:31:44,821
And as much as I've been influenced
by Brian's music,
542
00:31:45,530 --> 00:31:51,119
Brian was equally influenced by
the amazing songs coming on the radio
543
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:52,287
at that time.
544
00:31:52,287 --> 00:31:55,040
♪ For so long I thought about it ♪
545
00:31:55,832 --> 00:31:59,044
[reporter] Phil Spector is 25 years old.
546
00:31:59,044 --> 00:32:03,048
{\an8}He owns record and publishing companies
valued in the millions.
547
00:32:03,048 --> 00:32:04,883
Dozens of hit records since
548
00:32:04,883 --> 00:32:09,387
indicate that Spector's beat
is closely tuned to teen desire.
549
00:32:10,972 --> 00:32:13,475
[interviewer]
Was Spector a big inspiration to you?
550
00:32:13,475 --> 00:32:15,560
Are you kidding? Are you kidding?
551
00:32:16,186 --> 00:32:19,189
He was like a-- He was it.
552
00:32:20,982 --> 00:32:24,819
I was in my car with my girlfriend.
All of a sudden, this radio station goes,
553
00:32:24,819 --> 00:32:27,906
"Here we go with
'Be My Baby' by the Ronettes."
554
00:32:27,906 --> 00:32:34,037
{\an8}♪ The night we met
I knew I needed you so ♪
555
00:32:34,037 --> 00:32:40,377
After he heard "Be My Baby,"
he played that record every single day.
556
00:32:40,377 --> 00:32:42,837
Drove me absolutely nuts.
557
00:32:42,837 --> 00:32:46,216
♪ So won't you say you love me? ♪
558
00:32:46,216 --> 00:32:48,760
[Brian] Phil Spector's music
was intangible.
559
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,097
He knew how to mix,
who knows, probably 25 instruments?
560
00:32:52,722 --> 00:32:56,935
He mixes 'em all into one sound, and
that was what he called the Wall of Sound.
561
00:32:56,935 --> 00:32:59,396
♪ Be my, be my baby ♪
562
00:32:59,396 --> 00:33:02,315
- ♪ Be my little baby ♪
- ♪ My one and only baby ♪
563
00:33:02,315 --> 00:33:03,692
[Brian] It got to my soul.
564
00:33:03,692 --> 00:33:05,944
♪ Say you'll be my darling ♪
565
00:33:05,944 --> 00:33:09,781
- ♪ Be my, be my baby ♪
- ♪ Be my baby now ♪
566
00:33:09,781 --> 00:33:12,367
♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh ♪
567
00:33:12,367 --> 00:33:14,953
[Randi] When Brian heard "Be My Baby,"
568
00:33:14,953 --> 00:33:17,914
{\an8}he says, "I gotta have that band.
Those are the guys."
569
00:33:18,998 --> 00:33:20,750
I played on "Be My Baby"
570
00:33:20,750 --> 00:33:23,920
{\an8}with a group of session musicians
called the Wrecking Crew.
571
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,007
{\an8}We were the band
that was making those hit records.
572
00:33:27,007 --> 00:33:31,344
Before that, most of the studio musicians
were all in the suits,
573
00:33:31,344 --> 00:33:32,303
and nobody smoked.
574
00:33:33,096 --> 00:33:36,933
Here we came
and everybody was making jokes, relaxed.
575
00:33:36,933 --> 00:33:39,561
The story goes like, "These guys
are gonna wreck the business."
576
00:33:40,687 --> 00:33:45,650
[Was] Phil Spector had three keyboard
players all playing the same part.
577
00:33:45,650 --> 00:33:49,362
Five guitar players. Three bass players.
578
00:33:49,362 --> 00:33:51,906
Everyone's bleeding
into all the microphones.
579
00:33:51,906 --> 00:33:54,617
And he built this monolith of music.
580
00:33:54,617 --> 00:33:57,370
♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
581
00:33:58,371 --> 00:34:00,790
[Brian] I was unable
to really think as a producer
582
00:34:00,790 --> 00:34:04,044
up until the time I really got familiar
with Phil Spector's work.
583
00:34:04,044 --> 00:34:06,796
Then I started to see the point
of the whole game.
584
00:34:06,796 --> 00:34:08,673
It's the overall sound.
585
00:34:08,673 --> 00:34:10,675
It's what they're going to hear
and experience
586
00:34:10,675 --> 00:34:12,427
in the two and a half minutes that counts.
587
00:34:12,427 --> 00:34:15,805
- ♪ Be my, be my baby ♪
- ♪ Be my little baby ♪
588
00:34:15,805 --> 00:34:18,391
{\an8}[Carl] Brian really wanted
to produce his own records,
589
00:34:18,391 --> 00:34:20,101
{\an8}and that was a big step at that time.
590
00:34:20,101 --> 00:34:22,479
{\an8}Capitol Records really resisted it.
591
00:34:22,479 --> 00:34:26,149
They weren't certain that
he'd be able to really deliver.
592
00:34:28,651 --> 00:34:30,653
[no audible dialogue]
593
00:34:30,653 --> 00:34:34,908
When you're 21, especially in that era,
you needed to have an adult in the room.
594
00:34:34,908 --> 00:34:36,201
There was a method to things.
595
00:34:38,244 --> 00:34:40,997
[Carl] Capitol wanted
to have their person in there,
596
00:34:40,997 --> 00:34:44,668
{\an8}and so Nick Venet
was assigned as our producer.
597
00:34:44,668 --> 00:34:47,045
{\an8}But that was very unsatisfactory.
598
00:34:47,545 --> 00:34:48,546
Especially to Brian.
599
00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:51,549
He didn't really do much except just,
600
00:34:51,549 --> 00:34:53,718
"Okay, fellas. Take one and take"--
You know?
601
00:34:53,718 --> 00:34:56,262
{\an8}[presenter]
The tower's three recording studios
602
00:34:56,262 --> 00:34:58,098
{\an8}are the most modern in the world.
603
00:34:58,098 --> 00:34:59,891
[Brian] They want us to use
their recording studio,
604
00:34:59,891 --> 00:35:02,394
and we didn't care too much for the sound
at the tower.
605
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,191
[Brian] I preferred a studio called
Western Recorders on Sunset Boulevard.
606
00:35:08,191 --> 00:35:12,237
So my dad told Capitol that we're leaving.
607
00:35:12,237 --> 00:35:16,658
{\an8}[Audree] I remember Murry argued
with Capitol for five straight months.
608
00:35:16,658 --> 00:35:21,496
I could hear his voice just screaming,
but Murry got his way.
609
00:35:22,580 --> 00:35:24,332
[Venet] Had he been unrelated
to the group,
610
00:35:24,332 --> 00:35:27,168
{\an8}I could've probably seen
my way through the arguments.
611
00:35:27,168 --> 00:35:29,337
{\an8}But because he was blood related,
612
00:35:29,337 --> 00:35:32,090
whenever I told him
he was wrong or foolish,
613
00:35:32,090 --> 00:35:36,011
the entire band took it
as a slander against the family.
614
00:35:38,638 --> 00:35:41,391
And from then on,
we produced our own records.
615
00:35:42,392 --> 00:35:44,394
["Don't Worry Baby" playing]
616
00:35:51,735 --> 00:35:53,570
[Monáe] Growing up in Kansas City, Kansas,
617
00:35:53,570 --> 00:35:57,991
{\an8}my grandmother would go to thrift stores
and get all these dusty vinyls.
618
00:36:00,035 --> 00:36:06,291
And I just remember seeing The Beach Boys,
and I'm like, "What the hell is that?"
619
00:36:06,291 --> 00:36:09,544
♪ Well, it's been building up
inside of me ♪
620
00:36:09,544 --> 00:36:14,215
♪ For, oh, I don't know how long ♪
621
00:36:14,215 --> 00:36:15,592
[Monáe] When I got into songwriting,
622
00:36:15,592 --> 00:36:18,636
that's when I really started
to listen to The Beach Boys,
623
00:36:19,637 --> 00:36:21,598
'cause I was so obsessed
with the harmonies.
624
00:36:21,598 --> 00:36:24,684
- ♪ Ooh ♪
- ♪ But she looks in my eyes ♪
625
00:36:24,684 --> 00:36:27,354
They really show what it's like
626
00:36:27,354 --> 00:36:29,939
when everybody understands the part
they have to play.
627
00:36:29,939 --> 00:36:35,779
♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
628
00:36:35,779 --> 00:36:40,116
- ♪ Everything will turn out all right ♪
- ♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
629
00:36:40,116 --> 00:36:45,205
♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
630
00:36:45,205 --> 00:36:47,248
[vocalizing]
631
00:36:48,124 --> 00:36:55,048
♪ I guess I should've kept my mouth shut
When I started to brag about my car ♪
632
00:36:56,257 --> 00:37:00,762
There's something about those individuals
and the way they blended together.
633
00:37:00,762 --> 00:37:02,847
They're all part of it.
634
00:37:02,847 --> 00:37:05,016
You take any one of those guys out,
635
00:37:05,016 --> 00:37:07,894
and you don't have
that sound or that feel.
636
00:37:07,894 --> 00:37:11,898
♪ And makes me wanna drive when she says ♪
637
00:37:11,898 --> 00:37:14,150
♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
638
00:37:14,150 --> 00:37:17,654
- ♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
- ♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
639
00:37:17,654 --> 00:37:19,489
♪ Everything will turn out all right ♪
640
00:37:19,489 --> 00:37:21,783
I remember the recording session
for "Don't Worry Baby."
641
00:37:21,783 --> 00:37:23,702
I go, "Holy shit. This is beautiful."
642
00:37:24,285 --> 00:37:25,787
Definitely a turning point for us.
643
00:37:26,871 --> 00:37:27,956
And for Brian.
644
00:37:30,125 --> 00:37:31,543
He knew exactly what he wanted.
645
00:37:32,127 --> 00:37:34,379
He was really learning to be a producer.
646
00:37:34,379 --> 00:37:36,673
But his dad began to be an obstacle.
647
00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:41,636
[Murry] Sit up straight, Carl,
and you can play.
648
00:37:41,636 --> 00:37:43,179
- You're laying down.
- [crew] That thing's on.
649
00:37:43,179 --> 00:37:45,849
It's tough to manage your sons,
so I don't know how you can...
650
00:37:46,433 --> 00:37:49,352
[scoffs] ...travel with them
and be their road manager.
651
00:37:49,352 --> 00:37:52,939
And their manager manager.
It just-- It just was very difficult.
652
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,774
["The Warmth of the Sun" playing]
653
00:37:54,774 --> 00:37:56,609
[Love] He would come to a concert,
654
00:37:56,609 --> 00:38:01,322
then told Brian to not use the sound
on the bass that he wanted to use.
655
00:38:01,322 --> 00:38:03,491
He'd give us these signals
from the back of the hall.
656
00:38:03,491 --> 00:38:04,743
He'd have his flashlight too.
657
00:38:05,660 --> 00:38:08,830
But the flashlight under his face,
and he looked like Boris Karloff.
658
00:38:10,749 --> 00:38:15,086
We're young guys in a rock band
who wanna have a certain sound onstage.
659
00:38:15,086 --> 00:38:17,839
And here's the dad over there.
660
00:38:17,839 --> 00:38:21,092
♪ The sunset at night ♪
661
00:38:21,092 --> 00:38:24,429
He would literally go like this,
it means T for treble.
662
00:38:24,429 --> 00:38:25,513
Treble up.
663
00:38:25,513 --> 00:38:29,768
Treble up, and also we had to humble up.
That was another one of his big sayings.
664
00:38:29,768 --> 00:38:32,645
{\an8}[Murry] What's the matter?
You made too much money, buddy?
665
00:38:33,146 --> 00:38:35,607
{\an8}- Let's sing from your hearts. Let's go.
- [Brian] All right.
666
00:38:35,607 --> 00:38:38,318
If they didn't do something right,
he would fine them.
667
00:38:38,318 --> 00:38:40,362
Or if someone swore, he would fine them.
668
00:38:40,362 --> 00:38:41,488
It was so stupid.
669
00:38:42,947 --> 00:38:45,116
Brian did always
want his father's approval.
670
00:38:45,617 --> 00:38:49,204
But it got to the point where he really
didn't want Murry to tell him what to do,
671
00:38:49,204 --> 00:38:53,625
because, you know, Murry's making music
from the '30s and '40s.
672
00:38:53,625 --> 00:38:57,545
Brian said, "Oh, he's so corny
all the time. I can't. He's corny."
673
00:38:58,338 --> 00:39:00,298
{\an8}[Audree]
The boys just really weren't happy.
674
00:39:01,049 --> 00:39:04,052
{\an8}And Murry wasn't happy either.
He was miserable most of the time.
675
00:39:07,138 --> 00:39:08,973
[Jardine] We went to Australia for a tour.
676
00:39:10,642 --> 00:39:12,394
That might have been the turning point.
677
00:39:13,645 --> 00:39:16,731
[Brian] Just a lot of arguing.
A lot of arguments that we had with him.
678
00:39:16,731 --> 00:39:19,109
We finally said,
"Look, we can't deal with you anymore.
679
00:39:19,109 --> 00:39:21,861
We gotta let you go
and get a new-- get a new manager."
680
00:39:22,862 --> 00:39:27,575
Brian and I made that decision,
and Murry took over the publishing.
681
00:39:29,077 --> 00:39:30,745
But he was no longer our manager.
682
00:39:32,497 --> 00:39:34,582
[Wilson-Rutherford]
Murry protected them from day one.
683
00:39:34,582 --> 00:39:38,211
You know, if Murry wasn't there
and wasn't protecting them,
684
00:39:38,211 --> 00:39:40,839
I don't think they would be anywhere
where they are right now.
685
00:39:40,839 --> 00:39:42,007
In fact, I know they wouldn't.
686
00:39:43,383 --> 00:39:46,302
And so he was real, real hurt.
687
00:39:47,387 --> 00:39:49,180
- [Carl] That was traumatic for him.
- It was terrible.
688
00:39:49,180 --> 00:39:50,932
[Carl] It hurt his feelings very much.
689
00:39:52,767 --> 00:39:55,186
[Wilson-Rutherford]
The firing was very hard on Audree,
690
00:39:55,186 --> 00:39:58,732
because Murry would, you know,
come down on her all the time.
691
00:39:58,732 --> 00:40:01,526
You know,
"Because you were too soft with them."
692
00:40:02,777 --> 00:40:04,779
{\an8}[Audree] I just wanted them
always to be better.
693
00:40:05,321 --> 00:40:07,073
{\an8}Always to be stronger.
694
00:40:07,073 --> 00:40:08,742
{\an8}Always be honest.
695
00:40:09,701 --> 00:40:11,119
God, they heard that enough.
696
00:40:12,954 --> 00:40:14,414
{\an8}[Brian] I was never scared of my brothers.
697
00:40:14,414 --> 00:40:16,249
{\an8}I was scared of my dad though.
I'll tell you that.
698
00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:19,878
{\an8}He'd clobber me right in the face
for not getting the dishes done.
699
00:40:22,589 --> 00:40:25,425
{\an8}- At times, he was extremely--
- Depending on what he was hitting you with
700
00:40:25,425 --> 00:40:26,760
at the time, you know?
701
00:40:27,385 --> 00:40:31,139
He used a little thin board on Carl,
and he used a big one on me.
702
00:40:32,182 --> 00:40:33,767
Carl was the baby.
703
00:40:33,767 --> 00:40:36,978
And Brian.
"Well, Brian is different, Dennis."
704
00:40:36,978 --> 00:40:39,064
You know, and he said,
"You can take it." Boom!
705
00:40:40,315 --> 00:40:41,524
{\an8}[Love] He was very abusive,
706
00:40:41,524 --> 00:40:46,237
{\an8}and I think that dealt some
severe self-worth issues to his sons.
707
00:40:46,946 --> 00:40:50,325
Showed up in Brian in one way,
and showed up in Carl another way.
708
00:40:50,325 --> 00:40:53,244
He developed a real guarded personality.
709
00:40:53,953 --> 00:40:56,122
And then Dennis was a rebel.
710
00:40:58,083 --> 00:41:00,543
[Brian] When he grew up
into The Beach Boys,
711
00:41:00,543 --> 00:41:03,463
man, let me tell you,
he was really a spark plug.
712
00:41:03,963 --> 00:41:05,173
A real spark plug.
713
00:41:05,173 --> 00:41:07,258
[audience cheering]
714
00:41:10,053 --> 00:41:12,472
[Carl] In a sense,
the spotlight was on Dennis.
715
00:41:12,472 --> 00:41:14,391
He was the sex symbol of the group.
716
00:41:14,391 --> 00:41:16,685
So a lot of us had to take it
right where it hurt.
717
00:41:16,685 --> 00:41:19,646
It's like, "Mob the stage. Look out!
Get out of the way. We want Dennis.
718
00:41:19,646 --> 00:41:22,691
- Will you please move that bass, Brian?"
- [audience screaming]
719
00:41:22,691 --> 00:41:26,111
♪ Do you wanna dance
Under the moonlight? ♪
720
00:41:26,111 --> 00:41:28,780
♪ Hold me, baby, all through the night ♪
721
00:41:28,780 --> 00:41:34,786
♪ Oh, baby, do you wanna dance? ♪
722
00:41:35,704 --> 00:41:38,540
[Wilson-Rutherford] The way Dennis played
the drums, it was Dennis's drums.
723
00:41:38,540 --> 00:41:40,917
I think that made a lot
of the records too.
724
00:41:41,710 --> 00:41:44,713
[Love] He was energetic, boy.
A lot of power.
725
00:41:44,713 --> 00:41:45,714
Whoo!
726
00:41:47,132 --> 00:41:49,592
[Jardine] He was a real beach boy.
He really surfed.
727
00:41:49,592 --> 00:41:51,720
He really did what we were singing about.
728
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:55,223
But that issue was that he'd rather be
in the water than in the studio.
729
00:41:55,223 --> 00:41:58,476
♪ Do you wanna dance
Under the moonlight? ♪
730
00:41:58,476 --> 00:42:01,312
♪ Kiss me, baby, all through the night ♪
731
00:42:01,312 --> 00:42:07,819
♪ Oh, baby, do you wanna dance? ♪
732
00:42:08,445 --> 00:42:11,489
[engine revving]
733
00:42:12,574 --> 00:42:15,869
Dennis had all the cars and all the girls.
You know, the whole thing.
734
00:42:15,869 --> 00:42:17,954
[engine revving]
735
00:42:21,666 --> 00:42:23,376
He enjoyed being a beach boy.
736
00:42:26,087 --> 00:42:27,088
[static on radio]
737
00:42:27,088 --> 00:42:30,258
[band] We're The Beach Boys,
and we'd like to thank all the guys at...
738
00:42:30,967 --> 00:42:32,969
[Jardine]
We were in New Zealand for a tour.
739
00:42:32,969 --> 00:42:35,388
We were doing some spots
for the station there,
740
00:42:35,388 --> 00:42:38,600
and the deejay said,
"Hey, there's a new band from England
741
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,393
taking over America."
742
00:42:40,393 --> 00:42:42,520
We go, "Well, it's okay."
743
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,189
[laughs]
744
00:42:48,068 --> 00:42:51,488
[reporter] 3,000 screaming teenagers
are at New York's Kennedy airport
745
00:42:51,488 --> 00:42:53,156
to meet The Beatles.
746
00:42:53,156 --> 00:42:54,949
This rock-and-roll group has taken over
747
00:42:54,949 --> 00:42:58,703
as the kingpins of musical appreciation
among the younger element.
748
00:42:58,703 --> 00:43:00,789
- [shutter clicks]
- [chattering]
749
00:43:00,789 --> 00:43:02,874
I first heard 'em on The Ed Sullivan Show.
750
00:43:03,792 --> 00:43:04,959
And I was flippin' out.
751
00:43:06,503 --> 00:43:08,004
Pretty jealous. I remember that.
752
00:43:08,797 --> 00:43:11,549
{\an8}Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles.
Bring 'em on!
753
00:43:14,511 --> 00:43:16,721
[Jardine] Here we are
in this remote part of the world,
754
00:43:16,721 --> 00:43:18,473
and they're on The Ed Sullivan Show.
755
00:43:19,224 --> 00:43:20,975
We were completely caught off guard.
756
00:43:20,975 --> 00:43:22,644
[no audible dialogue]
757
00:43:22,644 --> 00:43:28,066
It was very humbling, because we had been
on top there for that year or so before.
758
00:43:28,775 --> 00:43:30,527
Think I was just as amazed as anyone.
759
00:43:32,028 --> 00:43:34,447
Couldn't understand
how something like that could happen.
760
00:43:34,447 --> 00:43:35,365
[mutters]
761
00:43:35,365 --> 00:43:36,449
The Beatles.
762
00:43:36,449 --> 00:43:39,786
[fans screaming]
763
00:43:40,954 --> 00:43:42,372
The music they made--
764
00:43:42,372 --> 00:43:45,625
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand," for example,
wasn't really that great a record.
765
00:43:46,251 --> 00:43:48,503
But they-- But they got screamed at.
766
00:43:48,503 --> 00:43:50,338
[fans screaming]
767
00:43:50,338 --> 00:43:54,259
[Jardine] They were selling an image like
we were, but we had different approaches.
768
00:43:55,176 --> 00:43:58,763
They were a little crude,
because we were so, you know, refined.
769
00:43:58,763 --> 00:44:02,017
Everything with us was pitch-perfect.
[laughing] You know?
770
00:44:02,892 --> 00:44:05,311
We were singers. They were players.
That's what it felt like.
771
00:44:05,311 --> 00:44:06,396
[fans screaming]
772
00:44:06,396 --> 00:44:08,398
[Jardine] It was just
a different level of energy.
773
00:44:10,525 --> 00:44:11,776
[Brian] It got us off our asses.
774
00:44:11,776 --> 00:44:12,986
["Fun, Fun, Fun" playing]
775
00:44:12,986 --> 00:44:15,155
It got us right off our asses
and in the studio.
776
00:44:15,822 --> 00:44:16,823
We started cuttin',
777
00:44:16,823 --> 00:44:18,908
and said,
"Look, don't worry about The Beatles.
778
00:44:18,908 --> 00:44:20,785
We'll cut our own stuff.
Don't worry about it."
779
00:44:21,327 --> 00:44:23,663
[presenter]
Let's hear it for The Beach Boys!
780
00:44:23,663 --> 00:44:25,999
[crowd cheering]
781
00:44:28,752 --> 00:44:30,503
[Love] ♪ Well, she got her daddy's car ♪
782
00:44:30,503 --> 00:44:33,214
♪ And she cruised through
the hamburger stand, now ♪
783
00:44:34,924 --> 00:44:39,012
♪ Seems she forgot all about the library
like she told her old man, now ♪
784
00:44:39,971 --> 00:44:42,223
[Love] The music business
is so competitive.
785
00:44:42,223 --> 00:44:44,726
Always has been. Always will be.
786
00:44:45,894 --> 00:44:48,730
And you always hope
the song is gonna be number one,
787
00:44:48,730 --> 00:44:50,440
but there's too much competition.
788
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,275
♪ Fun, fun, fun, 'til her daddy takes... ♪
789
00:44:52,275 --> 00:44:53,777
[switching radio stations]
790
00:44:53,777 --> 00:44:59,324
♪ She loves you
Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
791
00:44:59,324 --> 00:45:02,285
[reporter] The four lads from Liverpool
are off again
792
00:45:02,285 --> 00:45:04,704
against the background
of thousands of screaming fans.
793
00:45:04,704 --> 00:45:05,789
[fans screaming]
794
00:45:05,789 --> 00:45:08,708
♪ You think you've lost your love ♪
795
00:45:08,708 --> 00:45:11,878
♪ Well, I saw her yesterday ♪
796
00:45:12,504 --> 00:45:16,091
{\an8}[McCartney] We'd put a song out.
Brian would hear it, then he'd do one.
797
00:45:16,091 --> 00:45:18,885
And we ended up--
It was kind of like a rivalry.
798
00:45:18,885 --> 00:45:21,429
You know, you kind of try
and top each other all the time.
799
00:45:22,389 --> 00:45:25,225
{\an8}- Here are The Beach Boys!
- [fans screaming]
800
00:45:25,225 --> 00:45:28,978
{\an8}♪ Round, round, get around
I get around, yeah ♪
801
00:45:28,978 --> 00:45:31,481
- ♪ Round, round, round, I get around ♪
- [harmonizing]
802
00:45:31,481 --> 00:45:34,234
- ♪ I get around ♪
- ♪ Round, round, round, I get around ♪
803
00:45:34,234 --> 00:45:36,277
- ♪ From town to town ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, round ♪
804
00:45:36,277 --> 00:45:37,362
♪ I get around ♪
805
00:45:37,362 --> 00:45:40,865
♪ I'm a real cool head
I'm making real good bread ♪
806
00:45:40,865 --> 00:45:44,285
[Keith Fordyce] On the West Coast
of America, a new sound was born.
807
00:45:44,285 --> 00:45:47,330
The surfing sound.
A tremendous rage over there.
808
00:45:47,330 --> 00:45:49,374
And it's been
quite a big success here too.
809
00:45:49,374 --> 00:45:50,959
{\an8}Here they are with their big hit number,
810
00:45:50,959 --> 00:45:53,837
{\an8}"I Get Around," The Beach Boys!
811
00:45:53,837 --> 00:45:56,631
♪ My buddies and me
are getting real well-known ♪
812
00:45:56,631 --> 00:45:59,926
♪ Yeah, the bad guys know us
and they leave us alone ♪
813
00:46:00,427 --> 00:46:02,470
- Mike Love.
- Brian Wilson.
814
00:46:02,470 --> 00:46:04,556
- Paul, Ringo.
- [reporters chattering]
815
00:46:04,556 --> 00:46:05,807
[fans screaming]
816
00:46:05,807 --> 00:46:08,893
- ♪ I'm a real cool head ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, round ♪
817
00:46:08,893 --> 00:46:10,228
{\an8}♪ I'm making real good bread ♪
818
00:46:10,228 --> 00:46:13,898
{\an8}There's a lot of groups competing with us,
and I feel that competition.
819
00:46:16,776 --> 00:46:18,278
[music continues]
820
00:46:22,699 --> 00:46:24,325
[music continues]
821
00:46:29,247 --> 00:46:31,958
♪ We always take my car
'Cause it's never been beat ♪
822
00:46:31,958 --> 00:46:34,878
♪ And we've never missed yet
With the girls we meet ♪
823
00:46:37,881 --> 00:46:40,884
{\an8}♪ None of the guys go steady
'Cause it wouldn't be right ♪
824
00:46:40,884 --> 00:46:44,220
♪ To leave their best girl home
Now on Saturday night ♪
825
00:46:44,220 --> 00:46:47,140
- ♪ I get around ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, I get around ♪
826
00:46:47,140 --> 00:46:49,476
- ♪ From town to town ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, I get around ♪
827
00:46:49,476 --> 00:46:52,270
- ♪ I'm a real cool head ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, I get around ♪
828
00:46:52,270 --> 00:46:56,316
- ♪ I'm making real good bread ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, I get around ♪
829
00:46:57,233 --> 00:46:58,234
♪ Round ♪
830
00:46:58,234 --> 00:47:01,154
[vocalizing]
831
00:47:01,154 --> 00:47:03,323
- [music ends]
- [fans screaming, cheering]
832
00:47:03,323 --> 00:47:05,617
[applause, cheering]
833
00:47:05,617 --> 00:47:07,118
[Dick Clark] Sure, most everybody knows,
834
00:47:07,118 --> 00:47:10,330
{\an8}but for anybody who might not,
may we introduce you by name?
835
00:47:10,330 --> 00:47:12,040
{\an8}- Al Jardine.
- Thank you, Al.
836
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,291
{\an8}- Dennis Wilson.
- Thank you.
837
00:47:13,291 --> 00:47:14,668
Brian Wilson.
838
00:47:14,668 --> 00:47:16,586
- Carl Wilson.
- Mike Love.
839
00:47:16,586 --> 00:47:18,838
- Now, I think, uh-- Whoop. What happened?
- [chuckles]
840
00:47:18,838 --> 00:47:19,839
There you are.
841
00:47:19,839 --> 00:47:22,550
You know it's an amazing thing
because you have hit after hit.
842
00:47:22,550 --> 00:47:25,637
Who determines, Brian,
what will be done next?
843
00:47:26,429 --> 00:47:28,598
- Well, I guess I do. I don't know.
- [band chuckles]
844
00:47:28,598 --> 00:47:31,768
I write the songs and produce them,
so I have a lot to say about it.
845
00:47:31,768 --> 00:47:33,019
[Dick Clark] Do you have a...
846
00:47:33,019 --> 00:47:36,690
[Wilson-Rutherford] There was so much
on him all the time as he got older.
847
00:47:36,690 --> 00:47:38,525
Because Brian could write.
848
00:47:38,525 --> 00:47:40,568
He could arrange.
849
00:47:40,568 --> 00:47:41,903
He could sing.
850
00:47:41,903 --> 00:47:44,322
He could play instruments.
851
00:47:44,322 --> 00:47:45,615
He could do everything.
852
00:47:46,533 --> 00:47:49,119
But the other parts of life
were hard for him.
853
00:47:54,624 --> 00:47:57,794
{\an8}[Love] Being on the road,
it's ever-changing.
854
00:47:59,713 --> 00:48:01,339
He just wasn't cut out for that.
855
00:48:02,632 --> 00:48:03,925
He was more of a homebody.
856
00:48:06,428 --> 00:48:11,182
The toll that it takes on your body,
your family, your mental health,
857
00:48:11,182 --> 00:48:12,767
your physical health,
858
00:48:13,309 --> 00:48:14,561
it's not natural.
859
00:48:15,145 --> 00:48:18,314
And if you're a homebody whatsoever,
it will destroy you.
860
00:48:19,274 --> 00:48:21,443
I remember him crying one morning.
861
00:48:21,443 --> 00:48:24,029
And he said, "I can't take it anymore."
862
00:48:25,447 --> 00:48:28,950
[Jardine] December of '64,
we were taking a flight to Houston,
863
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,495
and he had
a nervous breakdown on the flight.
864
00:48:33,788 --> 00:48:35,707
We were sitting next to each other.
865
00:48:37,751 --> 00:48:39,502
[Dennis] I was terrified for my brother.
866
00:48:39,502 --> 00:48:43,840
To see my brother in a position
where... [sighs] ...he was frightened.
867
00:48:45,008 --> 00:48:47,677
[Jardine] By the time we landed,
he wanted to go home.
868
00:48:50,555 --> 00:48:53,975
[Wilson-Rutherford] We were already
married, but it's funny he didn't call me.
869
00:48:53,975 --> 00:48:55,143
He called his mom.
870
00:48:55,769 --> 00:48:57,520
You know, and he went to their house.
871
00:48:58,646 --> 00:49:00,482
By the next day, he was fine again.
872
00:49:01,107 --> 00:49:03,360
He just went, you know,
"I just can't do it anymore, Mar.
873
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:04,444
I just can't do it."
874
00:49:05,195 --> 00:49:07,447
[Brian] When we got home
from the 1964 tour, I quit.
875
00:49:07,447 --> 00:49:10,075
I told them I was gonna stay home
and write music for them,
876
00:49:10,075 --> 00:49:12,160
and they can go out and tour.
And they didn't agree.
877
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,246
I remember Michael was very upset.
He had tears in his eyes.
878
00:49:15,747 --> 00:49:20,794
It was not fun to deal with,
but, as a cousin or friend,
879
00:49:20,794 --> 00:49:24,714
you don't want him to have to do something
if he doesn't want to,
880
00:49:24,714 --> 00:49:27,884
or if he's not capable of doing it
without harming himself.
881
00:49:28,718 --> 00:49:32,013
So we agreed he was gonna depart
from the touring group,
882
00:49:32,514 --> 00:49:35,266
and focus more on--
on the recording part of it.
883
00:49:35,266 --> 00:49:36,643
[crew] Take six.
884
00:49:36,643 --> 00:49:39,187
The idea was that Brian
would have the tracks
885
00:49:39,187 --> 00:49:41,272
- prepared for us all ready to sing.
- [drumsticks tapping]
886
00:49:41,272 --> 00:49:43,566
So that we could just come home
and do the vocals.
887
00:49:44,442 --> 00:49:47,028
We were pretty damn busy.
So he hired the Wrecking Crew.
888
00:49:48,113 --> 00:49:50,782
[Tedder]
That's super intimidating as a producer.
889
00:49:50,782 --> 00:49:53,243
Especially if you're dealing
with the Wrecking Crew.
890
00:49:53,243 --> 00:49:57,872
It's like everyone in this room
is a better musician than me.
891
00:49:58,915 --> 00:50:02,961
[Blaine] But we were all maybe 12,
15 years older than Brian.
892
00:50:02,961 --> 00:50:06,881
{\an8}And we thought, uh, you know,
it's a great account. Capitol Records.
893
00:50:07,632 --> 00:50:10,385
[Kaye] Brian, though,
had something special from the start,
894
00:50:10,385 --> 00:50:13,471
{\an8}'cause we didn't have to make up
as much stuff
895
00:50:13,471 --> 00:50:15,140
{\an8}for him as we did the other groups.
896
00:50:15,140 --> 00:50:16,725
{\an8}And-- And he brought in parts.
897
00:50:16,725 --> 00:50:19,227
I mean,
they weren't written out very well,
898
00:50:19,227 --> 00:50:21,646
which made me believe that
he was not schooled or anything,
899
00:50:21,646 --> 00:50:23,440
but the other groups didn't do that.
900
00:50:24,566 --> 00:50:27,569
[Randi] Brian, for some reason,
knew how to manage us.
901
00:50:28,153 --> 00:50:30,030
{\an8}How to get the message across.
902
00:50:30,030 --> 00:50:31,406
He just took over.
903
00:50:31,406 --> 00:50:32,741
That's all. He was the boss.
904
00:50:33,867 --> 00:50:37,412
{\an8}[Brian sighs] I couldn't believe
how much greater making music was
905
00:50:37,412 --> 00:50:38,913
{\an8}when I did have the time.
906
00:50:38,913 --> 00:50:43,418
I didn't feel like I was being pressed
to make something in an unnatural way.
907
00:50:45,962 --> 00:50:48,465
[Jardine] But we still had to find
a replacement Beach Boy.
908
00:50:49,090 --> 00:50:51,509
And Glen Campbell was
in our Wrecking Crew band.
909
00:50:52,177 --> 00:50:54,596
Why don't we call Glen
and ask him to come out?
910
00:50:54,596 --> 00:50:58,350
{\an8}I said, "What you want me to do?"
He said, "Play bass. Sing the high part."
911
00:51:00,310 --> 00:51:03,438
{\an8}I didn't know all the words,
but it seemed to work out fine.
912
00:51:04,022 --> 00:51:06,232
[Jardine]
He was a studio-trained musician.
913
00:51:06,232 --> 00:51:08,234
So he had no idea what fame was all about.
914
00:51:08,818 --> 00:51:10,737
As he steps outside
of the dressing room door,
915
00:51:10,737 --> 00:51:14,407
all of a sudden this gaggle of girls
scared the living crap out of him.
916
00:51:15,658 --> 00:51:18,036
[Campbell]
I was just moseying back to the car,
917
00:51:18,036 --> 00:51:20,663
and, boy howdy, here come
a bunch of screaming teenagers.
918
00:51:20,663 --> 00:51:23,750
And they tore my shirt off
and got a few locks of hair.
919
00:51:24,626 --> 00:51:25,960
And it was really weird.
920
00:51:26,753 --> 00:51:29,756
From that day on, I was the first one
in the car. I can tell you that.
921
00:51:30,632 --> 00:51:32,926
[airplane passing overhead]
922
00:51:32,926 --> 00:51:34,928
[Jardine] We were happy
Brian had the Wrecking Crew.
923
00:51:34,928 --> 00:51:37,931
'Cause then if we'd come home
from a 30-day tour,
924
00:51:37,931 --> 00:51:39,599
I could at least get a little rest.
925
00:51:40,225 --> 00:51:41,851
We were exhausted.
926
00:51:41,851 --> 00:51:44,354
- [guitar strumming]
- [Carl] I'm ready now. I'm sorry, Brian.
927
00:51:44,354 --> 00:51:45,438
Is that a good tone?
928
00:51:46,606 --> 00:51:48,942
[Blaine] Carl used to come
and play with us quite often.
929
00:51:48,942 --> 00:51:51,027
- [Carl] One, two, three.
- But Carl was the only one.
930
00:51:51,027 --> 00:51:53,405
♪ Hi, little girl
It's me ♪
931
00:51:53,405 --> 00:51:56,324
♪ Don't you know who I am? ♪
932
00:51:58,910 --> 00:52:00,078
♪ I met you last summer ♪
933
00:52:00,078 --> 00:52:01,496
{\an8}[Carl] I was very in awe of them.
934
00:52:02,247 --> 00:52:03,748
{\an8}And it was a great thrill,
935
00:52:03,748 --> 00:52:07,252
because we rehearsed a lot more
in the early days.
936
00:52:07,252 --> 00:52:12,090
But by then, it became more of
an experimental type of recording,
937
00:52:12,090 --> 00:52:13,174
trial and error.
938
00:52:14,134 --> 00:52:16,803
Things would evolve in a
real organic sort of way.
939
00:52:17,595 --> 00:52:19,597
I just really loved being a part of that.
940
00:52:20,432 --> 00:52:22,976
Carl was very musically inclined.
941
00:52:23,601 --> 00:52:25,603
Of course, he was lead guitarist,
942
00:52:26,855 --> 00:52:29,274
in addition to having
the voice of an angel.
943
00:52:29,274 --> 00:52:31,651
♪ Said I'm the guy ♪
944
00:52:31,651 --> 00:52:36,823
♪ Who left you with tears in his eyes ♪
945
00:52:36,823 --> 00:52:38,408
♪ You didn't answer my... ♪
946
00:52:38,408 --> 00:52:42,412
Carl was the sweet one.
And, you know, shy.
947
00:52:43,079 --> 00:52:44,748
But he had a heart of gold.
948
00:52:45,790 --> 00:52:48,001
And he became the glue in The Beach Boys.
949
00:52:49,169 --> 00:52:52,839
{\an8}[Carl] My role in the band
has always been a support role.
950
00:52:52,839 --> 00:52:54,549
{\an8}And it's changed
through the years because,
951
00:52:54,549 --> 00:52:56,593
with our evolution
and Brian leaving the road,
952
00:52:56,593 --> 00:52:58,928
I kinda took over
as the leader of the band.
953
00:52:59,846 --> 00:53:03,933
{\an8}[Love] The Beach Boys
effectively became two groups.
954
00:53:03,933 --> 00:53:06,478
{\an8}The recording group and the touring group.
955
00:53:06,478 --> 00:53:07,562
[music ends]
956
00:53:09,439 --> 00:53:10,940
[Jardine] Brian was happy as a lark.
957
00:53:10,940 --> 00:53:13,526
He didn't have to be
under all that pressure anymore.
958
00:53:13,526 --> 00:53:17,405
The next call I got from him,
he couldn't wait for us to get home
959
00:53:17,405 --> 00:53:19,532
so he could go into the studio
and do the next album.
960
00:53:19,532 --> 00:53:23,995
♪ Well, since she put me down
I've been out doin' in my head ♪
961
00:53:23,995 --> 00:53:25,747
- [Brian] What's the matter?
- We doing a sing-along?
962
00:53:25,747 --> 00:53:26,831
[Brian] I don't know.
963
00:53:27,749 --> 00:53:30,752
[Jardine] We went into the studio
to record "Help Me, Rhonda" vocals.
964
00:53:31,878 --> 00:53:34,005
Well, I was having trouble with--
with this one part.
965
00:53:34,005 --> 00:53:36,883
- ♪ Well, Rhonda, you look so fine ♪
- ♪ Ooh ♪
966
00:53:36,883 --> 00:53:38,593
- ♪ Look so fine ♪
- [Jardine] ♪ And I know I-- ♪
967
00:53:38,593 --> 00:53:40,637
[Brian] Hey, Al.
You missed the synco pretty bad.
968
00:53:40,637 --> 00:53:42,347
- [Murry] Let's go.
- [Brian] Do it one more time.
969
00:53:42,347 --> 00:53:43,723
[Murry] You've got it. Okay.
970
00:53:43,723 --> 00:53:45,684
Now loosen up and be happy.
971
00:53:45,684 --> 00:53:49,312
[Jardine] Murry came in
and wanted to produce the band...
972
00:53:49,312 --> 00:53:50,397
♪ Since you put me down ♪
973
00:53:50,397 --> 00:53:51,898
...and, uh, it got real uncomfortable.
974
00:53:51,898 --> 00:53:53,692
[Murry] ♪ Since you put me down, baby ♪
975
00:53:53,692 --> 00:53:56,152
[scatting]
976
00:53:56,152 --> 00:53:57,529
- Got it?
- [Brian] I got it, Murry.
977
00:53:57,529 --> 00:53:59,447
[Murry] You're laughing,
but you know what I mean.
978
00:53:59,447 --> 00:54:01,157
[Murry] Syncopate it a little.
979
00:54:01,157 --> 00:54:02,826
He was drunk, you know?
980
00:54:02,826 --> 00:54:05,620
And Brian was masterful
in the studio, okay?
981
00:54:05,620 --> 00:54:07,789
[Murry] Give him the track, Chuck.
982
00:54:07,789 --> 00:54:09,582
[Brian] Don't sing with it.
Let him sing it once.
983
00:54:09,582 --> 00:54:10,917
[Murry] You want me to leave, Brian?
984
00:54:10,917 --> 00:54:12,544
[Brian] No, I just want you
to let him sing it.
985
00:54:12,544 --> 00:54:15,088
- [Murry] Your mother and I can leave.
- [Love] Did you really get drunk?
986
00:54:15,839 --> 00:54:18,091
[Jardine] They were both trying
to produce me on the song.
987
00:54:18,091 --> 00:54:20,593
And that's when they
kind of went to loggerheads.
988
00:54:21,219 --> 00:54:23,930
Trying to get me to--
So I kind of feel responsible in a way,
989
00:54:23,930 --> 00:54:25,640
but what the hell. I don't know.
990
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:28,309
- [Brian exclaims] Chuck, turn it down.
- [Murry] I'm a genius too.
991
00:54:28,309 --> 00:54:29,686
Let's go, huh?
992
00:54:29,686 --> 00:54:31,521
- [Brian mumbles]
- [chattering, chuckling]
993
00:54:31,521 --> 00:54:32,856
[Brian] Turn down his playback.
994
00:54:32,856 --> 00:54:34,691
[Audree] Murry was jealous of Brian.
995
00:54:35,525 --> 00:54:37,402
{\an8}I didn't realize that for a while.
996
00:54:37,402 --> 00:54:40,488
{\an8}And when I did, I thought--
I was kind of shocked.
997
00:54:41,072 --> 00:54:44,826
[Murry] Brian. Forget who you are,
will you? Let's go. Let's roll.
998
00:54:44,826 --> 00:54:46,619
[Brian] I'm just thinking about
who you are.
999
00:54:47,454 --> 00:54:52,334
[Audree] Murry had such a great desire
to be a songwriter and to be recognized.
1000
00:54:52,334 --> 00:54:54,502
- [Brian] Can we run it?
- [Murry] You guys get too much money,
1001
00:54:54,502 --> 00:54:57,672
you start thinking
you're gonna make everything a hit.
1002
00:54:57,672 --> 00:54:59,090
- Brian--
- [Brian] Let me ask you this.
1003
00:54:59,090 --> 00:55:00,842
- Uh...
- [Murry] Come on now.
1004
00:55:00,842 --> 00:55:03,345
[Brian] I don't wanna start...
I just wanna make sure this is on tape.
1005
00:55:03,345 --> 00:55:05,680
[Murry] No, I'll never help you guys
mix another song.
1006
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:08,058
- [Brian] Why?
- [Murry] When you guys get so big
1007
00:55:08,058 --> 00:55:10,852
that you can't sing from your hearts,
you're going downhill.
1008
00:55:10,852 --> 00:55:13,021
- [Brian] Downhill?
- [Murry] Downhill!
1009
00:55:13,021 --> 00:55:15,523
- Son. Son, I'm sorry.
- [Brian scoffs]
1010
00:55:15,523 --> 00:55:18,109
[Murry] I've protected you for 22 years,
but I can't go on
1011
00:55:18,109 --> 00:55:20,445
if you're not gonna listen
to an intelligent man.
1012
00:55:21,654 --> 00:55:22,822
[Brian] Are you going now?
1013
00:55:22,822 --> 00:55:25,158
[Murry] If you wanna fight for success,
I'll go all out.
1014
00:55:25,158 --> 00:55:27,369
[Brian] No. I don't--
We don't want to do that.
1015
00:55:27,369 --> 00:55:29,746
- [Murry] You think you got it made?
- [Brian] No, we don't.
1016
00:55:29,746 --> 00:55:31,915
[Murry] Chuck and I used to make
one hit after another...
1017
00:55:31,915 --> 00:55:35,126
[fingers snapping] ...in 30 minutes.
You guys take five hours to do it.
1018
00:55:35,126 --> 00:55:36,920
- [Brian] Times are changing.
- [Murry] You know why?
1019
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,172
- Because you think you have an image.
- [Brian] Times are changing.
1020
00:55:39,172 --> 00:55:40,924
[Murry] Don't ever forget.
1021
00:55:40,924 --> 00:55:42,550
[Brian] Times are changing.
1022
00:55:42,550 --> 00:55:43,635
[crowd clamoring]
1023
00:55:43,635 --> 00:55:45,887
["Baby Please Don't Go" playing]
1024
00:55:51,226 --> 00:55:54,979
[Lyndon Johnson] We have learned
at a terrible and brutal cost
1025
00:55:54,979 --> 00:55:57,899
that weakness does not bring peace.
1026
00:55:58,900 --> 00:56:02,821
And it is this lesson
that has brought us to Vietnam.
1027
00:56:02,821 --> 00:56:05,615
♪ Baby, please don't go down
to New Orleans ♪
1028
00:56:05,615 --> 00:56:06,866
♪ You know I love you so ♪
1029
00:56:07,492 --> 00:56:11,121
[Love] The culture was changing
in all kinds of ways.
1030
00:56:11,121 --> 00:56:14,165
[Timothy Leary] The psychedelic experience
is a voyage
1031
00:56:14,165 --> 00:56:18,420
into the countless galaxies
of your own nervous system.
1032
00:56:18,962 --> 00:56:20,422
♪ He had his shackles on ♪
1033
00:56:20,422 --> 00:56:21,965
♪ Baby, please don't go ♪
1034
00:56:21,965 --> 00:56:25,885
The repeated use of LSD may
permanently alter the brain's function.
1035
00:56:25,885 --> 00:56:27,095
[controller] Liftoff.
1036
00:56:27,095 --> 00:56:28,805
[Ed White] I feel like a million dollars!
1037
00:56:28,805 --> 00:56:32,434
[reporter 2] Freedom march from Selma
to Montgomery finally gets underway.
1038
00:56:32,434 --> 00:56:35,395
♪ I make you walk alone
Baby, please don't go ♪
1039
00:56:35,395 --> 00:56:38,815
{\an8}[Carl] The mid-'60s
was an incredibly rich time musically.
1040
00:56:39,816 --> 00:56:41,317
Just really opened up.
1041
00:56:41,943 --> 00:56:44,529
Also the awakening of consciousness.
1042
00:56:44,529 --> 00:56:49,200
Society not wanting to let the status quo
go on just because it's the status quo.
1043
00:56:50,994 --> 00:56:53,079
♪ Baby, please don't go ♪
1044
00:56:53,580 --> 00:56:54,956
♪ Baby, please don't go ♪
1045
00:56:57,042 --> 00:56:59,169
{\an8}[Jardine] We were on tour
and got back home.
1046
00:56:59,169 --> 00:57:03,381
{\an8}We started getting indications
that Brian was taking some hallucinogens.
1047
00:57:03,381 --> 00:57:07,093
LSD and stuff like that, which a lot of
the writers were doing at the time.
1048
00:57:08,303 --> 00:57:11,056
He drove me around the parking lot
about 20 times.
1049
00:57:12,015 --> 00:57:14,476
Explaining about this great trip
he'd just taken, you know?
1050
00:57:16,644 --> 00:57:20,023
[Brian] Oh, yeah. I did LSD,
and it just totally tore my head off.
1051
00:57:20,023 --> 00:57:24,027
You just come to grips with what you are
and what you can do and what you can't do.
1052
00:57:24,027 --> 00:57:26,488
And you learn to face it,
you know? [laughs]
1053
00:57:28,239 --> 00:57:30,658
[Jardine] Pretty soon,
the music was changing. Evolving.
1054
00:57:31,326 --> 00:57:33,995
[Brian] Here we go.
This is real good now. Take 43.
1055
00:57:34,496 --> 00:57:36,498
["California Girls" playing]
1056
00:57:39,334 --> 00:57:40,335
[music ends]
1057
00:57:40,335 --> 00:57:43,672
Brian was hearing
these arrangements in his head.
1058
00:57:43,672 --> 00:57:45,507
Who knows where they come from?
1059
00:57:45,507 --> 00:57:48,510
Who knows where any arranger hears?
1060
00:57:48,510 --> 00:57:52,472
But most arrangers are guys
who have studied, studied, studied.
1061
00:57:52,472 --> 00:57:54,641
They know just how to put 'em on a score.
1062
00:57:54,641 --> 00:57:57,977
Brian used to explain it to us.
1063
00:57:57,977 --> 00:58:03,358
[Brian] Here's the whole secret of this
whole thing is if we can go... [vocalizes]
1064
00:58:03,358 --> 00:58:05,276
If we can have that emphasis there, okay?
1065
00:58:05,276 --> 00:58:10,198
It was a matter of us tuning in to what
he was saying and playing what he wanted.
1066
00:58:10,907 --> 00:58:13,243
[Kaye] We felt
a little bit more at home with Brian.
1067
00:58:13,243 --> 00:58:15,120
He knew that we were jazz players.
1068
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:20,458
And took after Phil Spector, in the sense
that he'd use the three or the four hours.
1069
00:58:20,458 --> 00:58:22,919
And he'd do, like, one whole tune.
1070
00:58:22,919 --> 00:58:24,504
Whereas on the other record days,
1071
00:58:24,504 --> 00:58:26,965
we would do three or four tunes
in the same time.
1072
00:58:28,258 --> 00:58:32,887
The big difference between Phil and Brian
was Brian was still inventing.
1073
00:58:32,887 --> 00:58:35,181
He was constantly rewriting himself.
1074
00:58:35,849 --> 00:58:38,184
He knew where it was going, but we didn't.
1075
00:58:38,184 --> 00:58:42,397
And if you're a creative person,
he'd let you have that freedom to create,
1076
00:58:42,397 --> 00:58:43,898
and he knew how to use it.
1077
00:58:43,898 --> 00:58:45,900
It's great talent to be able to do that.
1078
00:58:45,900 --> 00:58:48,486
[Brian] Sorry, but that drags.
I hate to say it, really.
1079
00:58:49,070 --> 00:58:50,196
That-- That drags, Carol.
1080
00:58:50,196 --> 00:58:52,949
We appreciate your loyal support.
See you next week, I hope.
1081
00:58:52,949 --> 00:58:56,619
In the meantime, it's Shindig! finale time
with Glen Campbell. Right over there.
1082
00:58:56,619 --> 00:58:57,704
Thank you.
1083
00:58:57,704 --> 00:59:00,749
[Jardine] By that time,
Glen Campbell has his own hit records.
1084
00:59:01,291 --> 00:59:03,043
He can't come out on tour anymore.
1085
00:59:03,043 --> 00:59:06,671
♪ Dream, dream, baby ♪
1086
00:59:06,671 --> 00:59:09,382
{\an8}Mike called me up.
He said, "You're in the record business."
1087
00:59:09,883 --> 00:59:13,845
{\an8}"Who do you know that could come out
for the weekend to fill in for Glen?"
1088
00:59:13,845 --> 00:59:15,805
So, I called about ten people.
1089
00:59:15,805 --> 00:59:18,641
I called him back.
I said, "I can't find anybody.
1090
00:59:18,641 --> 00:59:20,226
But, honest to God, there's still time.
1091
00:59:20,226 --> 00:59:23,104
I can go to the airport,
and I'll bring a keyboard,
1092
00:59:23,104 --> 00:59:25,273
and I'll just fill in for the weekend."
1093
00:59:26,149 --> 00:59:27,317
And that's how it started.
1094
00:59:29,486 --> 00:59:31,321
[Love] One of my first memories of Bruce,
1095
00:59:31,321 --> 00:59:34,824
I went into his hotel room,
and he was learning the bass,
1096
00:59:34,824 --> 00:59:36,284
so he could play it onstage.
1097
00:59:36,284 --> 00:59:38,161
He'd only ever played keyboard.
1098
00:59:40,580 --> 00:59:44,668
My dream was to make $250 a week.
1099
00:59:44,668 --> 00:59:46,002
I thought, "Wow."
1100
00:59:46,002 --> 00:59:48,797
And Carl calls me.
He said, "Could you come back out?"
1101
00:59:48,797 --> 00:59:50,382
So I came out for two weeks.
1102
00:59:51,341 --> 00:59:54,344
Carl says, "We can cut you a check.
What do you want?"
1103
00:59:55,762 --> 00:59:57,097
Two hundred and fifty dollars.
1104
00:59:57,097 --> 01:00:01,226
And so I get a check for $3,000,
'cause he thought I was asking per night.
1105
01:00:01,226 --> 01:00:02,310
I said, "Okay."
1106
01:00:02,894 --> 01:00:05,939
[chuckling] So,
that's how I got into the band.
1107
01:00:10,610 --> 01:00:12,320
{\an8}My best friend was Terry Melcher.
1108
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:15,115
{\an8}And so Terry calls me up, and he said,
1109
01:00:15,115 --> 01:00:18,743
{\an8}"My mom, Doris Day,
she's got the best stereo system."
1110
01:00:18,743 --> 01:00:21,663
{\an8}So we go over,
and there's John and Michelle Phillips,
1111
01:00:21,663 --> 01:00:24,791
Mike Love, Brian Wilson, me,
Doris, Terry Melcher.
1112
01:00:24,791 --> 01:00:27,252
And we listened to Rubber Soul.
1113
01:00:27,252 --> 01:00:29,671
["I'm Looking Through You" playing]
1114
01:00:29,671 --> 01:00:32,173
[Johnston] Now, that was a turning point
in The Beatles' world.
1115
01:00:32,173 --> 01:00:34,300
It was also a turning point for Brian.
1116
01:00:34,300 --> 01:00:36,636
♪ I'm looking through you ♪
1117
01:00:37,137 --> 01:00:39,139
♪ Where did you go? ♪
1118
01:00:39,139 --> 01:00:40,682
[Brian] When I first heard that,
I flipped.
1119
01:00:40,682 --> 01:00:42,767
I said,
"I want to make an album like that."
1120
01:00:42,767 --> 01:00:46,021
Where all the songs seem to be
like a collection of folk songs, you know?
1121
01:00:47,313 --> 01:00:49,816
[Johnston] He saw Rubber Soul
as a thematic album.
1122
01:00:49,816 --> 01:00:52,110
A little light went on,
and he started dreaming up.
1123
01:00:52,110 --> 01:00:55,363
Conceptual album. Front to back. Thematic.
1124
01:00:57,866 --> 01:01:00,618
[Buckingham] They're competing
against The Beatles,
1125
01:01:00,618 --> 01:01:03,288
but these guys are still wearing
striped shirts?
1126
01:01:03,288 --> 01:01:05,415
♪ I wish they all could be... ♪
1127
01:01:05,415 --> 01:01:08,918
[Buckingham] I think Brian saw the need
to grow out of that identity.
1128
01:01:10,003 --> 01:01:15,759
Not to be defined by the external labels,
which had been now placed on the band.
1129
01:01:15,759 --> 01:01:18,011
[car whirring]
1130
01:01:18,011 --> 01:01:20,013
[audience laughs]
1131
01:01:20,013 --> 01:01:23,933
[Buckingham] This is what you did last
time, and we want you to do that again.
1132
01:01:23,933 --> 01:01:27,020
I can hardly wait to get out there
and hang ten.
1133
01:01:27,020 --> 01:01:29,189
[audience laughing]
1134
01:01:29,189 --> 01:01:31,316
Hey, maybe you guys
would like to join our club.
1135
01:01:31,316 --> 01:01:33,818
Your surfing club, huh?
That sounds real cool.
1136
01:01:33,818 --> 01:01:35,737
[Tedder] Evolution is
absolutely necessary,
1137
01:01:35,737 --> 01:01:38,740
{\an8}but you have a hit
with a certain style of song.
1138
01:01:39,282 --> 01:01:42,118
{\an8}And you will have guys in the band
who will just be like,
1139
01:01:42,118 --> 01:01:45,372
"Guys, this is well-tread territory.
We know it works.
1140
01:01:45,372 --> 01:01:47,123
Let's do another one like this."
1141
01:01:48,166 --> 01:01:51,586
♪ We wish they all could be
California Girls ♪
1142
01:01:51,586 --> 01:01:53,129
[Buckingham] A lot of artists,
1143
01:01:53,129 --> 01:01:55,632
when they have they have to make
these kind of choices,
1144
01:01:55,632 --> 01:01:58,468
don't often make the choice for art.
1145
01:01:58,468 --> 01:02:01,012
[pop music playing]
1146
01:02:02,555 --> 01:02:05,934
Al Jardine had this great idea
for The Beach Boys
1147
01:02:05,934 --> 01:02:09,938
to record a version of this
folk song called "Sloop John B."
1148
01:02:09,938 --> 01:02:13,441
♪ We come on the sloop John B ♪
1149
01:02:13,441 --> 01:02:16,903
♪ My grandfather and me ♪
1150
01:02:17,862 --> 01:02:20,115
{\an8}[Jardine] It was recorded
by The Kingston Trio.
1151
01:02:20,115 --> 01:02:23,034
{\an8}Basically a template
from my own musical upbringing.
1152
01:02:23,868 --> 01:02:25,704
I was in a folk group in high school.
1153
01:02:26,496 --> 01:02:29,332
We replicated The Kingston Trio
note-for-note.
1154
01:02:29,332 --> 01:02:32,085
But when The Beach Boys formed,
I left my folk group behind.
1155
01:02:32,085 --> 01:02:34,170
I feel kinda guilty about it,
to be honest with you.
1156
01:02:35,380 --> 01:02:37,882
Anyway, I played Brian a song
called "Sloop John B."
1157
01:02:37,882 --> 01:02:39,926
♪ Hoist up the John B's sail ♪
1158
01:02:39,926 --> 01:02:42,387
[Jardine] Growing up,
he didn't like folk music really.
1159
01:02:42,387 --> 01:02:44,639
He was more music-driven
than story-driven.
1160
01:02:44,639 --> 01:02:47,559
♪ Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home ♪
1161
01:02:47,559 --> 01:02:49,060
[Jardine] But we sat down at the piano,
1162
01:02:49,060 --> 01:02:52,480
and I suggested we add a few chords
to give it that Beach Boy influence.
1163
01:02:53,231 --> 01:02:56,234
And he liked it. It fit our vocal style.
1164
01:02:57,527 --> 01:03:02,032
And then Brian went into the studio when
we were away touring to finish the song.
1165
01:03:03,324 --> 01:03:07,078
[Johnston] I remember being in Japan,
and Brian sent a mix of "Sloop John B."
1166
01:03:07,829 --> 01:03:11,875
- ♪ Hoist up the John B's sail ♪
- ♪ Hoist up the John B's ♪
1167
01:03:11,875 --> 01:03:15,337
- ♪ See how the mainsail sets ♪
- ♪ See how the mainsail ♪
1168
01:03:15,337 --> 01:03:18,214
♪ Call for the captain ashore ♪
1169
01:03:18,214 --> 01:03:21,718
♪ Let me go home ♪
1170
01:03:21,718 --> 01:03:26,097
- ♪ I wanna go home ♪
- ♪ Oh, let me go home ♪
1171
01:03:26,097 --> 01:03:28,975
- ♪ Let me go ♪
- ♪ Hoist up the John B's sail ♪
1172
01:03:28,975 --> 01:03:30,685
♪ Hoist up the John B's ♪
1173
01:03:30,685 --> 01:03:33,021
♪ I feel so broke up ♪
1174
01:03:33,021 --> 01:03:35,899
♪ I wanna go home ♪
1175
01:03:35,899 --> 01:03:37,901
[Jardine] He produced a masterpiece.
1176
01:03:37,901 --> 01:03:40,403
If I'd produced it,
it would still be a folk song.
1177
01:03:40,403 --> 01:03:41,905
But now-- now it's a classic.
1178
01:03:44,282 --> 01:03:46,201
[Carl] Brian was really growing
1179
01:03:46,201 --> 01:03:50,622
way beyond the three-,
four-chord format of doing pop tunes.
1180
01:03:50,622 --> 01:03:52,123
It just wasn't gonna do.
1181
01:03:52,707 --> 01:03:54,167
♪ Let me go home ♪
1182
01:03:54,167 --> 01:03:55,919
{\an8}[Brian] All of a sudden,
1183
01:03:55,919 --> 01:03:58,630
{\an8}I began to realize
that I had a lot of music to make.
1184
01:04:06,846 --> 01:04:09,182
[producer] Here we go.
"Wouldn't It Be Nice." Take one.
1185
01:04:09,182 --> 01:04:12,435
["Wouldn't It Be Nice" playing]
1186
01:04:12,435 --> 01:04:15,814
[Brian] I wanted to write some songs
that reflected how I really felt,
1187
01:04:15,814 --> 01:04:20,235
rather than just car songs, surf songs,
something more introspective.
1188
01:04:21,069 --> 01:04:23,488
So I said, "Mike,
I'm writing with another collaborator."
1189
01:04:23,488 --> 01:04:26,074
And he goes, "What?
But I thought I was your collaborator."
1190
01:04:26,074 --> 01:04:29,327
I said, "Well, for this one album,
Tony Asher is my collaborator."
1191
01:04:30,954 --> 01:04:33,540
[Asher] I was so overwhelmed
by what Brian was playing
1192
01:04:33,540 --> 01:04:35,291
and coming up with and singing,
1193
01:04:35,917 --> 01:04:37,752
{\an8}I didn't think that much about the fact
1194
01:04:37,752 --> 01:04:41,798
{\an8}that lyrics were quite different than
the majority of the songs they'd done.
1195
01:04:41,798 --> 01:04:47,012
♪ I keep lookin' for a place to fit in ♪
1196
01:04:47,012 --> 01:04:51,850
♪ where I can speak my mind ♪
1197
01:04:54,185 --> 01:04:56,479
[Asher] I knew there were lots of things
that he heard in his head
1198
01:04:56,479 --> 01:04:57,856
that I had no idea of.
1199
01:04:57,856 --> 01:05:00,275
[Brian] "I Just Wasn't Made
For These Times." Take one.
1200
01:05:02,277 --> 01:05:05,530
That's when we started realizing
there's some genius here.
1201
01:05:05,530 --> 01:05:10,285
[Brian] You got one, two, three-- boom.
No. It's one, two, three... boop!
1202
01:05:10,285 --> 01:05:12,704
[Kaye] They kept getting better
and better and better.
1203
01:05:12,704 --> 01:05:14,539
[Brian] Take two. "Let Go of Your Ego."
1204
01:05:15,790 --> 01:05:19,544
I think not being schooled, like he was,
was a great thing.
1205
01:05:19,544 --> 01:05:21,629
You know,
because he didn't know the limits.
1206
01:05:21,629 --> 01:05:23,965
He didn't know
he was not supposed to do things.
1207
01:05:23,965 --> 01:05:27,302
[Brian vocalizing]
1208
01:05:27,302 --> 01:05:28,553
Let's make it real tight, okay?
1209
01:05:28,553 --> 01:05:31,222
Phil Spector records,
marvels that they are,
1210
01:05:31,222 --> 01:05:33,850
they're kinda--
They're still like in black and white.
1211
01:05:33,850 --> 01:05:39,939
{\an8}Brian got the same guys
but wrote songs and arrangements
1212
01:05:39,939 --> 01:05:41,941
that put the thing in Technicolor.
1213
01:05:43,777 --> 01:05:44,778
[Brian] Nice.
1214
01:05:45,695 --> 01:05:47,072
[Love] We were still in Japan
1215
01:05:47,072 --> 01:05:50,742
while he was recording a lot of the tracks
for Pet Sounds.
1216
01:05:51,868 --> 01:05:55,455
[Brian] Then when they got back, the
tracks were ready for 'em, ready to go.
1217
01:05:55,455 --> 01:05:58,375
All they had to do was go
and learn their parts, sing.
1218
01:05:59,376 --> 01:06:01,127
[Jardine]
A lot of the lyrics were strange.
1219
01:06:01,127 --> 01:06:03,380
Especially to Mike,
who's more sensitive to lyrics.
1220
01:06:03,380 --> 01:06:04,923
[Brian] Here we go. Take 11.
1221
01:06:04,923 --> 01:06:06,341
Take 19, please.
1222
01:06:06,341 --> 01:06:08,134
Okay. Take 27, please.
1223
01:06:08,677 --> 01:06:13,765
[Love] Brian had an obsession
with getting things absolutely perfect.
1224
01:06:14,432 --> 01:06:15,850
Like on "Wouldn't It Be Nice,"
1225
01:06:15,850 --> 01:06:18,728
we must have done the backgrounds
30 times.
1226
01:06:19,854 --> 01:06:23,692
♪ You know it's gonna make it
that much better ♪
1227
01:06:23,692 --> 01:06:29,906
♪ When we can say good night
and stay together ♪
1228
01:06:29,906 --> 01:06:33,993
[Love] I started calling him "dog ears,"
because it was perfect vocally,
1229
01:06:33,993 --> 01:06:37,664
but Brian could hear something
that most human beings cannot.
1230
01:06:37,664 --> 01:06:41,584
♪ And after having spent
the day together ♪
1231
01:06:42,711 --> 01:06:45,380
[Love] You listen to the vocals
on Pet Sounds,
1232
01:06:45,380 --> 01:06:47,382
they're some of the best ever recorded.
1233
01:06:47,382 --> 01:06:50,468
♪ Happy times together
we'd be spending ♪
1234
01:06:50,468 --> 01:06:57,308
♪ I wish that every kiss
was never-ending ♪
1235
01:06:57,308 --> 01:07:00,228
♪ Oh, wouldn't it be nice? ♪
1236
01:07:02,397 --> 01:07:04,482
{\an8}[Carl] To us it was more than a record.
1237
01:07:04,482 --> 01:07:06,484
{\an8}It was a new place.
1238
01:07:07,110 --> 01:07:10,321
It was popular music
coming to a new level.
1239
01:07:10,321 --> 01:07:16,286
♪ Baby, then there wouldn't be
a single thing we couldn't do ♪
1240
01:07:16,286 --> 01:07:20,540
- ♪ Oh, we could be married ♪
- ♪ Oh, we could be married ♪
1241
01:07:20,540 --> 01:07:24,586
- ♪ And then we'd be happy ♪
- ♪ And then we'd be happy ♪
1242
01:07:24,586 --> 01:07:27,672
♪ Oh, wouldn't it be nice! ♪
1243
01:07:27,672 --> 01:07:30,133
[vocalizing]
1244
01:07:30,133 --> 01:07:32,969
[Love] But when we played it
for Capitol Records,
1245
01:07:32,969 --> 01:07:35,138
and they said, "Geez. This is great, guys.
1246
01:07:35,138 --> 01:07:36,723
But couldn't you do something more like
1247
01:07:37,390 --> 01:07:40,060
'Surfin' U.S.A.'
or 'California Girls' or 'I Get Around'?"
1248
01:07:40,060 --> 01:07:42,145
[no audible dialogue]
1249
01:07:47,817 --> 01:07:49,903
[Brian] Capitol Records
didn't really understand,
1250
01:07:49,903 --> 01:07:55,575
they were concerned about selling
albums and having commercial success.
1251
01:07:56,576 --> 01:08:00,080
And, uh, we were growing up.
1252
01:08:02,082 --> 01:08:06,461
We'd allowed Capitol Records to do our PR
and public relations and stuff.
1253
01:08:07,253 --> 01:08:09,339
And they didn't know how to treat it.
1254
01:08:09,964 --> 01:08:14,969
So, we needed somebody who got the idea
of Pet Sounds being an evolution.
1255
01:08:17,555 --> 01:08:21,142
{\an8}Derek Taylor was brilliant.
He was The Beatles' publicist for a while.
1256
01:08:21,142 --> 01:08:24,562
Then he moved to America,
and he became our publicist.
1257
01:08:25,605 --> 01:08:30,610
Derek Taylor is the one that came up with
the "Brian Wilson is a genius" moniker.
1258
01:08:31,778 --> 01:08:33,697
[Kun] If you look
in The Beach Boys' history,
1259
01:08:33,697 --> 01:08:37,534
there is that constant struggle
between Brian and everybody else.
1260
01:08:38,201 --> 01:08:43,039
And, I think, perhaps the genius label,
in a way, gets linked to him
1261
01:08:43,748 --> 01:08:46,835
in part
because of his psychological struggles.
1262
01:08:50,255 --> 01:08:51,589
The solitude of Brian.
1263
01:08:52,215 --> 01:08:53,466
The loneliness of Brian.
1264
01:08:54,217 --> 01:08:59,639
I think that's gone a long way
to fleshing out his musical genius
1265
01:08:59,639 --> 01:09:01,474
as part of a larger sense of,
1266
01:09:01,474 --> 01:09:06,396
"Well, he's a lone-- a lone figure
separate from the group."
1267
01:09:07,397 --> 01:09:08,815
And that's not fair to them.
1268
01:09:10,734 --> 01:09:13,486
[Johnston] I'm president
of the Brian Wilson fan club.
1269
01:09:13,486 --> 01:09:17,907
But the musicality of every Beach Boy
is essential.
1270
01:09:18,950 --> 01:09:24,039
If we didn't have the ability, we wouldn't
have been able to sing these parts.
1271
01:09:28,251 --> 01:09:31,671
Brian was lucky to have our voices
to sing his dreams.
1272
01:09:36,134 --> 01:09:39,721
When we were done with the album,
I'm talking to Derek Taylor,
1273
01:09:39,721 --> 01:09:43,224
and he said, "Why don't you come
to England to promote Pet Sounds?"
1274
01:09:44,225 --> 01:09:45,727
I said, "But it's not out there."
1275
01:09:45,727 --> 01:09:47,062
"Bring it anyway."
1276
01:09:48,104 --> 01:09:49,856
There's a guy who was getting famous
1277
01:09:49,856 --> 01:09:52,692
and dying to become one of The Beach Boys.
Keith Moon.
1278
01:09:53,568 --> 01:09:55,737
{\an8}[chuckling] So he shows up at my suite.
1279
01:09:57,072 --> 01:09:59,532
{\an8}He says,
"I'm gonna guide you through England,
1280
01:09:59,532 --> 01:10:01,451
and you're going to meet everybody."
1281
01:10:01,993 --> 01:10:03,745
And I probably did 20 interviews.
1282
01:10:04,454 --> 01:10:05,914
I was a hero.
1283
01:10:05,914 --> 01:10:08,625
"Hey, I've got the new Beach Boys' album.
It's Pet Sounds."
1284
01:10:10,418 --> 01:10:13,505
And then, at the end of the week,
I come back to the hotel.
1285
01:10:13,505 --> 01:10:15,840
"Hey, man.
You better get up to the suite."
1286
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:17,092
"Why?"
1287
01:10:17,092 --> 01:10:20,679
"Lennon and McCartney are waiting
for you. They wanna hear Pet Sounds."
1288
01:10:20,679 --> 01:10:23,807
"What? I-- I haven't been
in the band that long."
1289
01:10:23,807 --> 01:10:26,017
["God Only Knows" playing]
1290
01:10:26,017 --> 01:10:29,104
So, they're dressed in Edwardian suits.
1291
01:10:29,104 --> 01:10:31,356
And they play the album a couple of times.
1292
01:10:32,315 --> 01:10:35,110
{\an8}[McCartney] I just thought, "Oh, dear me.
This is the album of all time.
1293
01:10:35,110 --> 01:10:37,028
{\an8}What the hell are we gonna do?"
1294
01:10:37,028 --> 01:10:39,864
Just 'cause the musical invention
on that is, like, wow.
1295
01:10:41,408 --> 01:10:44,703
♪ I may not always love you ♪
1296
01:10:45,286 --> 01:10:48,623
♪ But long as there are stars above you ♪
1297
01:10:49,541 --> 01:10:52,794
♪ You never need to doubt it ♪
1298
01:10:53,420 --> 01:10:57,048
♪ I'll make you so sure about it ♪
1299
01:10:57,549 --> 01:11:00,552
When I first heard "God Only Knows,"
I remember crying.
1300
01:11:01,386 --> 01:11:04,889
I remember tearing up
thinking about those lyrics.
1301
01:11:06,182 --> 01:11:09,436
♪ If you should ever leave me ♪
1302
01:11:10,020 --> 01:11:13,440
♪ Though life would still go on
Believe me ♪
1303
01:11:14,065 --> 01:11:17,819
♪ The world could show nothing to me ♪
1304
01:11:17,819 --> 01:11:21,406
♪ So what good would living do me? ♪
1305
01:11:22,490 --> 01:11:26,911
♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪
1306
01:11:28,496 --> 01:11:30,999
[Was] When we listen to something
like Pet Sounds now,
1307
01:11:30,999 --> 01:11:34,044
and the orchestration on that,
people go, "Yeah, cool."
1308
01:11:34,044 --> 01:11:36,629
{\an8}What they forget is, he did it first.
1309
01:11:36,629 --> 01:11:38,214
[laughs]
1310
01:11:38,214 --> 01:11:43,762
Brian put together textures that no one
had ever put into popular songs before.
1311
01:11:43,762 --> 01:11:45,722
[vocalizing]
1312
01:11:52,562 --> 01:11:56,149
♪ God only knows
what I'd be without you ♪
1313
01:11:56,149 --> 01:12:00,737
[Buckingham] Brian made that decision
to thwart the listeners' expectations
1314
01:12:00,737 --> 01:12:04,574
for the sake of his art,
and it did not go unnoticed.
1315
01:12:05,492 --> 01:12:09,079
[Love] Paul McCartney said
"God Only Knows" is like the perfect song.
1316
01:12:09,079 --> 01:12:11,373
And then they got busy
on their next album.
1317
01:12:14,167 --> 01:12:17,337
[Kun] I think it's more interesting
to think less of the competition,
1318
01:12:17,962 --> 01:12:20,131
and more of it as a collaboration.
1319
01:12:23,968 --> 01:12:26,805
{\an8}Together, that healthy collaboration
was advancing the music.
1320
01:12:26,805 --> 01:12:28,098
{\an8}It was advancing the culture.
1321
01:12:28,098 --> 01:12:31,518
{\an8}It was advancing
what rock music meant and could be.
1322
01:12:32,435 --> 01:12:35,814
And I always wondered,
if one of them didn't have the other,
1323
01:12:36,564 --> 01:12:38,942
would their music
actually be what it became?
1324
01:12:41,361 --> 01:12:45,198
But Sgt. Pepper's was more
of a commercial success than Pet Sounds.
1325
01:12:46,950 --> 01:12:49,494
{\an8}This is one of the great accomplishments
of The Beatles
1326
01:12:49,494 --> 01:12:52,914
{\an8}was they evolved
and thwarted over and over again.
1327
01:12:53,581 --> 01:12:55,750
But they did it gradually.
1328
01:12:55,750 --> 01:12:59,421
They did it as a group
who all wanted the same thing.
1329
01:12:59,421 --> 01:13:03,591
But with Pet Sounds,
there was kind of a jump from here,
1330
01:13:03,591 --> 01:13:05,051
all of a sudden they're, you know,
1331
01:13:05,051 --> 01:13:07,929
something snapped, and you are over here,
unlike The Beatles.
1332
01:13:16,646 --> 01:13:19,107
{\an8}[Johnston] Pet Sounds was so radical
1333
01:13:19,107 --> 01:13:22,277
{\an8}compared to the really
nice commercial albums
1334
01:13:22,277 --> 01:13:23,319
that we'd been making,
1335
01:13:23,319 --> 01:13:27,699
that Capitol had been so successful
in selling that they just wanted more.
1336
01:13:28,283 --> 01:13:31,619
So, instead of promoting Pet Sounds
here in America,
1337
01:13:31,619 --> 01:13:34,497
Capitol put out
the first Best of The Beach Boys
1338
01:13:34,497 --> 01:13:35,874
and promoted that.
1339
01:13:35,874 --> 01:13:37,417
And it went gold quickly.
1340
01:13:37,417 --> 01:13:41,504
{\an8}And they didn't promote Pet Sounds because
they said that it wasn't commercial,
1341
01:13:41,504 --> 01:13:43,089
{\an8}and the people wouldn't understand it.
1342
01:13:46,968 --> 01:13:49,429
[Love] They called us "the number one
surfing group in the USA,"
1343
01:13:49,429 --> 01:13:51,765
it was completely ridiculous,
1344
01:13:51,765 --> 01:13:54,893
in light of the fact that there was things
like the Vietnam War,
1345
01:13:54,893 --> 01:13:58,563
and student demonstrations,
and the Civil Rights Movement,
1346
01:13:58,563 --> 01:14:02,150
and all these things that the youth
of society was completely caught up in.
1347
01:14:02,650 --> 01:14:07,739
It certainly wasn't the idyllic culture
that we sang about in the early '60s.
1348
01:14:15,538 --> 01:14:17,374
[Wilson-Rutherford]
He couldn't understand it.
1349
01:14:17,374 --> 01:14:21,795
The thing that he put his heart and soul
into more than any record he'd ever done,
1350
01:14:22,504 --> 01:14:25,340
and people didn't think it was that great.
1351
01:14:27,342 --> 01:14:31,930
[Carl] Pet Sounds was not commercially
received as it was critically,
1352
01:14:31,930 --> 01:14:33,765
and I think it hurt Brian.
1353
01:14:34,432 --> 01:14:37,644
I think he was at a very vulnerable stage
in his life.
1354
01:14:40,939 --> 01:14:44,109
[Brian] My whole life depended
on the success of The Beach Boys,
1355
01:14:44,109 --> 01:14:46,528
and I'm very deeply affected
by what people think.
1356
01:14:48,613 --> 01:14:51,533
I said, "Look, I want to do something
that people will respect.
1357
01:14:51,533 --> 01:14:53,868
And not just industry people,
but the public."
1358
01:14:55,870 --> 01:14:56,955
[Brian] Let me hear the organ.
1359
01:14:58,748 --> 01:15:01,209
[Jardine] "Good Vibrations"
was very schizophrenic.
1360
01:15:01,209 --> 01:15:04,379
It was recorded in many different studios.
Uh, three to be exact.
1361
01:15:04,379 --> 01:15:05,547
[Brian] Stop, please.
1362
01:15:05,547 --> 01:15:06,631
[feedback]
1363
01:15:06,631 --> 01:15:10,176
I'd bet you it'd be a half million bucks
just for the track now. Just the track.
1364
01:15:11,594 --> 01:15:14,514
[Blaine] He really was going after
what he was going after.
1365
01:15:15,098 --> 01:15:18,351
I mean, who in their right mind
ever thought of putting a theremin
1366
01:15:19,185 --> 01:15:21,688
on a-- on a pop record?
1367
01:15:21,688 --> 01:15:24,607
[theremin playing]
1368
01:15:24,607 --> 01:15:26,985
[Brian] Let's go from the top.
You got that. Okay.
1369
01:15:26,985 --> 01:15:29,029
All right. This will be take 25.
1370
01:15:30,155 --> 01:15:32,824
[Randi] "Good Vibrations."
We were in for three months.
1371
01:15:32,824 --> 01:15:34,451
Nobody does that.
1372
01:15:35,702 --> 01:15:37,829
A lot of guys would say,
"He's out of his mind."
1373
01:15:37,829 --> 01:15:38,913
I never said that.
1374
01:15:38,913 --> 01:15:41,666
I always respected
the genius of Brian Wilson.
1375
01:15:43,126 --> 01:15:47,630
Eventually, Brian made it studio worthy
for us to sing on.
1376
01:15:48,298 --> 01:15:51,885
But Mike's driving to the session,
but he hasn't written the words.
1377
01:15:51,885 --> 01:15:54,846
So his wife, Suzanne,
in the passenger seat.
1378
01:15:54,846 --> 01:15:58,600
Mike's driving, dictating words to her
as he goes to the studio.
1379
01:15:59,809 --> 01:16:03,021
♪ I'm pickin' up good vibrations ♪
1380
01:16:03,021 --> 01:16:06,358
♪ She's giving me the excitations ♪
1381
01:16:06,358 --> 01:16:09,611
- ♪ I'm pickin' up good vibrations ♪
- ♪ Oom-bop-bop, good vibrations ♪
1382
01:16:09,611 --> 01:16:12,947
- ♪ She's giving me the excitations ♪
- ♪ Bop-pop, excitations ♪
1383
01:16:12,947 --> 01:16:15,742
- ♪ Good, good, good, good vibrations ♪
- [vocalizing]
1384
01:16:15,742 --> 01:16:18,578
- ♪ She's giving me the excitations ♪
- ♪ Bop-pop, excitations ♪
1385
01:16:18,578 --> 01:16:22,665
- ♪ Good, good, good, good vibrations ♪
- [vocalizing]
1386
01:16:22,665 --> 01:16:25,085
- ♪ She's giving me the excitations ♪
- ♪ Bop-pop, excitation ♪
1387
01:16:25,085 --> 01:16:26,461
♪ Close my eyes ♪
1388
01:16:26,461 --> 01:16:28,380
[Johnston] It only took us
two nights to sing.
1389
01:16:28,380 --> 01:16:31,049
It took Brian several months
to put it together.
1390
01:16:31,633 --> 01:16:35,595
[Kaye] He spent a lot of time on that,
and I couldn't figure out why, you know?
1391
01:16:35,595 --> 01:16:37,681
But that was Brian.
1392
01:16:37,681 --> 01:16:43,186
♪ When I look in her eyes ♪
1393
01:16:44,771 --> 01:16:47,899
[Kaye] When I heard the thing, I said,
"Whoa! That's it, man.
1394
01:16:47,899 --> 01:16:49,150
That's the monster hit."
1395
01:16:49,150 --> 01:16:50,568
And it was the monster hit.
1396
01:16:50,568 --> 01:16:53,697
{\an8}♪ I'm picking up good vibrations ♪
1397
01:16:53,697 --> 01:16:56,825
♪ She's giving me excitations ♪
1398
01:16:56,825 --> 01:16:58,076
[Love] Once again,
1399
01:16:58,076 --> 01:17:02,706
our writing relationship proved out
to be extremely successful.
1400
01:17:06,584 --> 01:17:10,463
[Love] The problem was,
Brian was being hailed as a genius,
1401
01:17:10,463 --> 01:17:13,133
but there was no credit
for the rest of the band,
1402
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:15,552
or Mike Love for writing songs.
1403
01:17:16,594 --> 01:17:21,725
It would've been nice
had that reality been put forward.
1404
01:17:21,725 --> 01:17:26,771
It might have been a little bit easier
for Brian to handle the "genius" label.
1405
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:29,441
[crowd cheering]
1406
01:17:34,696 --> 01:17:37,532
[Love] In 1966, we were on tour.
1407
01:17:38,199 --> 01:17:41,369
And even though
Pet Sounds didn't do that well in the US,
1408
01:17:42,162 --> 01:17:44,497
England really came through for us.
1409
01:17:44,497 --> 01:17:45,832
[screaming]
1410
01:17:45,832 --> 01:17:49,836
We were voted the number one group.
Number two being The Beatles.
1411
01:17:56,259 --> 01:17:57,677
[Jardine] They just loved us,
1412
01:17:57,677 --> 01:18:00,472
and "Good Vibrations" broke in
at number one over there.
1413
01:18:00,472 --> 01:18:03,475
So there was this pressure
to deliver something great
1414
01:18:03,475 --> 01:18:06,061
with the next album, Smile.
1415
01:18:06,603 --> 01:18:08,605
[audience cheering]
1416
01:18:10,398 --> 01:18:14,986
We were busy touring and stuff,
so I wasn't writing with him at that time.
1417
01:18:15,612 --> 01:18:17,864
It was Van Dyke Parks.
1418
01:18:18,448 --> 01:18:20,700
{\an8}[crew] Twenty-one. Take 250. Marker.
1419
01:18:21,826 --> 01:18:23,161
{\an8}[Parks] All music passes with me
1420
01:18:23,161 --> 01:18:27,415
{\an8}but The Beach Boys, I like
because of their essential modesty.
1421
01:18:28,541 --> 01:18:30,210
So, I wrote some lyrics for Brian,
1422
01:18:30,210 --> 01:18:32,587
and I think that that's been my best shot
in town yet.
1423
01:18:32,587 --> 01:18:36,466
♪ Well you're well
You're welcome ♪
1424
01:18:36,466 --> 01:18:39,594
I met him on the lawn
of Terry Melcher's house.
1425
01:18:40,512 --> 01:18:43,598
{\an8}[Brian] I thought, "Wow. That guy has
a great style of talking." You know?
1426
01:18:43,598 --> 01:18:46,726
{\an8}And I said, "Hey. Would you like
to write some lyrics with me?"
1427
01:18:46,726 --> 01:18:48,687
He goes, "Sure. I'll give it a try."
1428
01:18:49,312 --> 01:18:50,605
[dog barking]
1429
01:18:50,605 --> 01:18:53,942
[Parks] Those were the days
of considerable drug abuse.
1430
01:18:55,151 --> 01:18:58,321
♪ Well you're well
You're welcome ♪
1431
01:18:58,321 --> 01:19:00,907
{\an8}[Brian] I was into
taking a lot of stimulant pills,
1432
01:19:00,907 --> 01:19:03,535
{\an8}'cause I didn't think I had any energy
of my own, you know?
1433
01:19:03,535 --> 01:19:06,246
So I would take these pills,
and they would-- [exclaims]
1434
01:19:06,246 --> 01:19:08,164
You know... [exclaims] ...there it is.
1435
01:19:08,164 --> 01:19:09,207
[exclaims] I took the pill.
1436
01:19:09,207 --> 01:19:10,417
[exclaims] I feel great.
1437
01:19:11,251 --> 01:19:14,713
And Van Dyke Parks and I used to take
uppers and write songs together.
1438
01:19:14,713 --> 01:19:16,339
We'd write our heads off.
1439
01:19:16,339 --> 01:19:17,507
[laughs]
1440
01:19:18,091 --> 01:19:19,759
[Parks] This was way ahead of our time.
1441
01:19:19,759 --> 01:19:23,013
This was the most advanced
musical experimentation
1442
01:19:23,013 --> 01:19:24,806
in the popular music industry.
1443
01:19:24,806 --> 01:19:30,562
♪ Well, you're welcome to come ♪
1444
01:19:30,562 --> 01:19:31,688
[music ends]
1445
01:19:36,943 --> 01:19:38,278
[instruments playing]
1446
01:19:39,863 --> 01:19:41,865
[Carl] He started
to get into deep water then.
1447
01:19:42,449 --> 01:19:46,244
I should say he started
to get into difficulty inside of himself,
1448
01:19:46,244 --> 01:19:48,413
and, yet, the music was fantastic.
1449
01:19:50,290 --> 01:19:52,500
{\an8}[Brian] I was getting pretty far out
by that time.
1450
01:19:52,500 --> 01:19:54,544
{\an8}I had the musicians wearing fire helmets.
1451
01:19:54,544 --> 01:19:56,838
I had a guy bring in a bucket
with burning wood
1452
01:19:56,838 --> 01:19:58,882
to smell of smoke in the studio.
1453
01:19:58,882 --> 01:20:00,050
I mean, I was crazy.
1454
01:20:00,050 --> 01:20:01,718
[siren wailing]
1455
01:20:02,344 --> 01:20:04,429
It so happens that a building burned down
1456
01:20:04,429 --> 01:20:06,848
the same day
we were doing that down the street.
1457
01:20:07,932 --> 01:20:11,102
I began to think that we started that fire
somehow mystically.
1458
01:20:12,771 --> 01:20:14,689
I had a lot of money, of course.
I'm a millionaire.
1459
01:20:14,689 --> 01:20:18,026
And I was able
to get ahold of all these drugs, you know?
1460
01:20:18,026 --> 01:20:20,487
And they fucked-- [laughs]
1461
01:20:20,487 --> 01:20:23,490
I was able to get ahold
of all these drugs and they messed me up.
1462
01:20:23,490 --> 01:20:26,493
They, uh-- They messed my mind up.
1463
01:20:28,453 --> 01:20:31,956
[Love] He was pretty paranoid
and ultra sensitive.
1464
01:20:32,499 --> 01:20:35,960
But I was there as one of the troops
to go in and do backgrounds.
1465
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,630
I sang on many of those songs.
1466
01:20:38,630 --> 01:20:40,715
["Heroes And Villains" playing]
1467
01:20:42,717 --> 01:20:45,220
[Carl] It's been said
that Michael was not supportive.
1468
01:20:45,220 --> 01:20:49,057
And there were certain things
that he was not supportive of.
1469
01:20:49,724 --> 01:20:51,726
The heavy drug taking
1470
01:20:51,726 --> 01:20:55,730
and the acid alliteration,
I used to call it, of Van Dyke Parks.
1471
01:20:56,773 --> 01:20:58,858
[Parks] I wasn't close enough
to the other guys.
1472
01:20:58,858 --> 01:21:01,403
I was in a position
of defending my lyrics.
1473
01:21:02,070 --> 01:21:05,365
Mike Love said to me one day--
He said, "Explain this.
1474
01:21:05,907 --> 01:21:09,202
'Over and over,
the crow cries, "Uncover the cornfield."'
1475
01:21:09,202 --> 01:21:11,538
"Van Dyke, what does that lyric mean?"
1476
01:21:11,538 --> 01:21:13,623
He says, "I don't know. I haven't a clue."
1477
01:21:13,623 --> 01:21:14,791
I said, "Exactly."
1478
01:21:15,792 --> 01:21:18,461
{\an8}[Carl] He thought
the lyrics were not relatable.
1479
01:21:19,295 --> 01:21:20,672
Personally, I loved it.
1480
01:21:20,672 --> 01:21:23,258
So artistic and abstract.
1481
01:21:23,925 --> 01:21:26,678
♪ Hung velvet overtaken me ♪
1482
01:21:26,678 --> 01:21:29,597
♪ Dim chandelier awaken me ♪
1483
01:21:29,597 --> 01:21:34,561
♪ To a song dissolved in the dawn ♪
1484
01:21:34,561 --> 01:21:38,815
[Carl] I realized that Brian and Van Dyke
were expressing a new poetry.
1485
01:21:39,441 --> 01:21:44,612
But it could be that it was not
an appropriate project for The Beach Boys.
1486
01:21:44,612 --> 01:21:48,033
Maybe that would have been most fitting
as Brian's album.
1487
01:21:48,033 --> 01:21:55,123
♪ Columnated ruins domino ♪
1488
01:21:57,167 --> 01:22:01,254
[Brian] I wanted to do my kind of music,
and they wanted to do their kind of music.
1489
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:03,631
So, it was a tug-of-war.
1490
01:22:04,466 --> 01:22:06,384
I felt like I was getting pulled
to pieces.
1491
01:22:06,885 --> 01:22:08,053
♪ Surf's up ♪
1492
01:22:08,053 --> 01:22:12,015
[humming]
1493
01:22:12,015 --> 01:22:15,769
♪ Aboard a tidal wave ♪
1494
01:22:16,603 --> 01:22:19,356
[Carl] Very chaotic,
very turbulent time for him,
1495
01:22:20,857 --> 01:22:23,860
and he was just not able to finish
the Smile project.
1496
01:22:25,695 --> 01:22:28,698
[Love] He took the Smile tapes
and shelved them.
1497
01:22:30,992 --> 01:22:32,744
It was too much for him to finish.
1498
01:22:33,328 --> 01:22:35,246
He just put it away.
1499
01:22:37,082 --> 01:22:38,917
[music fades, ends]
1500
01:22:41,086 --> 01:22:46,758
It was, primarily, he had this fear,
I think, that the music would be rejected.
1501
01:22:48,009 --> 01:22:50,553
I thought that it was inappropriate music
for us to make.
1502
01:22:50,553 --> 01:22:52,931
[Alan Boyd] Inappropriate for you,
Brian Wilson, or for The Beach Boys?
1503
01:22:52,931 --> 01:22:54,474
For The Beach Boys, yeah.
1504
01:22:54,474 --> 01:22:56,101
[Alan Boyd] What was inappropriate
about it?
1505
01:22:56,101 --> 01:22:59,020
Well, it was just the ideas
behind the songs were too weird.
1506
01:22:59,020 --> 01:23:01,356
It was like fire and elements and,
you know?
1507
01:23:01,356 --> 01:23:03,024
I just threw it away. I junked it.
1508
01:23:06,277 --> 01:23:07,946
[Jardine]
We were pretty exhausted by then.
1509
01:23:07,946 --> 01:23:11,282
And so, we decided to build a studio
inside Brian's home.
1510
01:23:12,117 --> 01:23:14,119
And we were able
to come back together socially,
1511
01:23:14,119 --> 01:23:16,538
and actually enjoy doing
what we were doing again.
1512
01:23:17,580 --> 01:23:18,915
It's almost like starting over.
1513
01:23:19,624 --> 01:23:22,544
And so we made this little album
called Smiley Smile.
1514
01:23:22,544 --> 01:23:25,588
♪ I'm gonna be around my vegetables ♪
1515
01:23:25,588 --> 01:23:27,382
♪ I'm gonna chow down my vegetables ♪
1516
01:23:27,382 --> 01:23:29,342
[Jardine] There's crazy stuff
on that album.
1517
01:23:29,342 --> 01:23:32,095
We had a song
about your favorite vegetable.
1518
01:23:32,929 --> 01:23:34,389
I know it sounds crazy.
1519
01:23:34,389 --> 01:23:36,266
♪ My favorite vegetable ♪
1520
01:23:38,018 --> 01:23:41,730
[Kun] Smiley Smile shows a lot
of psychological cracking,
1521
01:23:41,730 --> 01:23:43,523
and strangeness and oddballness.
1522
01:23:43,523 --> 01:23:46,067
That's when I was like,
"Whoa! This is quite different."
1523
01:23:46,067 --> 01:23:49,195
For someone who's hungry
for experimental sounds,
1524
01:23:49,195 --> 01:23:51,698
or unpredictable musical experiences,
1525
01:23:51,698 --> 01:23:54,200
that whole album
is an unpredictable musical experience.
1526
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:57,662
♪ I'm gonna keep well, my vegetables ♪
1527
01:23:57,662 --> 01:24:00,498
♪ Cart off and sell my vegetables ♪
1528
01:24:00,498 --> 01:24:04,461
[Tedder] Brian's innovation and obsession
with pushing the envelope musically
1529
01:24:04,461 --> 01:24:07,297
is what helped take them to another level.
1530
01:24:08,006 --> 01:24:11,968
But there is an inherent risk
when you take those big swings:
1531
01:24:11,968 --> 01:24:16,806
To swing and completely overshoot
your fan base because you went too far.
1532
01:24:16,806 --> 01:24:19,559
[scatting]
1533
01:24:24,898 --> 01:24:26,900
[Brian] I created my head off.
I made a lot of records.
1534
01:24:26,900 --> 01:24:28,568
And sang my face off.
1535
01:24:29,194 --> 01:24:33,823
{\an8}I reached the point of exhaustion,
and, uh, I did retreat.
1536
01:24:33,823 --> 01:24:38,328
♪ Your favorite vegetable ♪
1537
01:24:38,328 --> 01:24:39,412
[music ends]
1538
01:24:41,581 --> 01:24:44,167
[Wilson-Rutherford] He was at this point
with The Beach Boys
1539
01:24:44,167 --> 01:24:48,755
where they weren't as happy
with the music he wanted to create.
1540
01:24:48,755 --> 01:24:52,175
You know, there was a lot
of squabbling going on all the time.
1541
01:24:52,175 --> 01:24:55,095
And Brian just said,
"You know what? Let them do it.
1542
01:24:55,095 --> 01:24:57,597
Let them do it.
Let them see how easy it is."
1543
01:25:02,477 --> 01:25:04,813
[Buckingham] Even though
he was the mastermind,
1544
01:25:04,813 --> 01:25:08,066
he, suddenly,
did not have their full support.
1545
01:25:09,484 --> 01:25:14,656
And, I think, because it was his family,
it made that much more difficult
1546
01:25:14,656 --> 01:25:19,911
and, perhaps,
much more demanding on his psyche.
1547
01:25:21,162 --> 01:25:26,751
So many artists who have very,
very significant commercial success
1548
01:25:26,751 --> 01:25:30,505
forget why they got into the business
in the first place.
1549
01:25:30,505 --> 01:25:32,132
Why they do music.
1550
01:25:32,132 --> 01:25:38,096
And now, you are judging your validity
through commerce
1551
01:25:39,180 --> 01:25:40,473
more than anything else.
1552
01:25:44,894 --> 01:25:48,815
[Love] At that time
the Monterey Pop Festival was going on.
1553
01:25:49,733 --> 01:25:53,111
{\an8}[Taylor] They were supposed to headline
Saturday night, but they dropped out.
1554
01:25:53,820 --> 01:25:56,156
{\an8}I couldn't believe it.
Nobody could believe it.
1555
01:25:56,698 --> 01:25:58,199
This was such a turning point.
1556
01:25:58,700 --> 01:26:00,076
Who knows what would've happened?
1557
01:26:00,660 --> 01:26:03,997
{\an8}♪ Why don't you all fade away ♪
1558
01:26:04,664 --> 01:26:09,336
- ♪ Don't try to dig what we all say ♪
- ♪ Talkin' about my generation ♪
1559
01:26:09,336 --> 01:26:10,670
♪ I'm not trying to cause ♪
1560
01:26:11,338 --> 01:26:13,173
- ♪ A big sensation ♪
- ♪ Talkin' about my generation ♪
1561
01:26:13,173 --> 01:26:17,218
- ♪ I'm just talking about my generation ♪
- ♪ Talkin' about my generation ♪
1562
01:26:18,136 --> 01:26:22,807
[Love] You know, that was The Who,
Janis Joplin, along with Hendrix.
1563
01:26:23,433 --> 01:26:26,102
[Jardine] Jefferson Airplane,
and, of course, The Dead.
1564
01:26:27,145 --> 01:26:29,147
[music continues]
1565
01:26:32,317 --> 01:26:36,321
Psychedelia had kicked in and, all
of a sudden, it was a whole different era.
1566
01:26:44,245 --> 01:26:48,166
Monterey Pop was seen
as a culture-changing moment,
1567
01:26:48,166 --> 01:26:49,167
and they weren't there.
1568
01:26:50,877 --> 01:26:55,840
[Love] Because we were in such disarray,
we missed that train, so to speak.
1569
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:57,467
["California Girls" playing]
1570
01:27:00,887 --> 01:27:02,389
[Kun] They weren't with the times,
1571
01:27:02,389 --> 01:27:05,183
and they weren't pushing
to where things were going.
1572
01:27:06,017 --> 01:27:10,897
In the early '60s, they became
the poster boys for the California dream.
1573
01:27:10,897 --> 01:27:14,734
But at the end of the '60s,
that dream changed,
1574
01:27:14,734 --> 01:27:19,823
and they never made enough
of a public-facing shift
1575
01:27:19,823 --> 01:27:22,283
to change with the times.
1576
01:27:22,283 --> 01:27:24,744
♪ Well, East Coast girls are hip ♪
1577
01:27:24,744 --> 01:27:29,958
{\an8}♪ I really dig those styles they wear ♪
1578
01:27:29,958 --> 01:27:33,962
♪ And the Southern girls
With the way they talk ♪
1579
01:27:33,962 --> 01:27:37,465
♪ They knock me out when I'm down there ♪
1580
01:27:38,299 --> 01:27:42,929
[Kun] At that time, you have some
of the most culturally-relevant music
1581
01:27:42,929 --> 01:27:44,055
in American History.
1582
01:27:44,597 --> 01:27:48,268
Songs about the struggle for civil rights,
around identity,
1583
01:27:48,268 --> 01:27:49,936
around political freedoms.
1584
01:27:49,936 --> 01:27:54,774
And their image was as far as you could be
from the changes in the culture.
1585
01:27:54,774 --> 01:27:59,279
♪ I wish
they all could be California girls ♪
1586
01:27:59,279 --> 01:28:03,116
♪ Wish they all could be California ♪
1587
01:28:03,116 --> 01:28:10,206
♪ I wish
they all could be California girls ♪
1588
01:28:11,958 --> 01:28:13,293
[Kun] And then there's Dennis.
1589
01:28:14,336 --> 01:28:17,047
Hi. My name is Dennis Wilson.
1590
01:28:17,589 --> 01:28:19,174
I make rock-and-roll records.
1591
01:28:19,174 --> 01:28:20,925
[engine revving]
1592
01:28:20,925 --> 01:28:23,011
["Mr. Soul" playing]
1593
01:28:23,011 --> 01:28:26,097
He became more of
a quintessential '60s LA rock guy.
1594
01:28:26,097 --> 01:28:30,894
♪ Oh, hello, Mr. Soul
I dropped by to pick up a reason ♪
1595
01:28:30,894 --> 01:28:32,812
Dennis was part of the scene.
1596
01:28:32,812 --> 01:28:35,982
He was part of the Laurel Canyon world.
1597
01:28:35,982 --> 01:28:38,693
Part of the counter-cultural world
of the Sunset Strip.
1598
01:28:39,819 --> 01:28:41,488
He was just a wild person.
1599
01:28:42,405 --> 01:28:44,240
Interestingly enough, though,
1600
01:28:44,240 --> 01:28:49,079
he is actually the one who got us
interested in things like meditation.
1601
01:28:49,704 --> 01:28:51,956
Even if he was drunk,
he'd say, "Let's meditate."
1602
01:28:56,002 --> 01:29:00,548
One afternoon, Dennis picked up a couple
of hitchhikers on Sunset Boulevard,
1603
01:29:01,091 --> 01:29:02,175
and he took them home.
1604
01:29:02,801 --> 01:29:07,263
{\an8}He told the girls he had a guru,
which was Maharishi,
1605
01:29:07,263 --> 01:29:09,849
{\an8}who had taught all of us how to meditate.
1606
01:29:10,684 --> 01:29:12,769
And then they said, "Well, we have a guru.
1607
01:29:15,772 --> 01:29:17,190
His name is Charlie Manson."
1608
01:29:20,151 --> 01:29:21,569
I only met the guy once,
1609
01:29:22,654 --> 01:29:23,905
and that was enough for me.
1610
01:29:26,282 --> 01:29:28,868
Manson was actually
an aspiring songwriter.
1611
01:29:29,494 --> 01:29:32,247
So, Dennis and Charlie
started to write together.
1612
01:29:33,123 --> 01:29:37,544
And at that time, The Beach Boys released
a Charles Manson song as a B-side,
1613
01:29:38,670 --> 01:29:39,921
"Never Learn Not To Love."
1614
01:29:41,589 --> 01:29:43,591
There's lots of ways to talk about Manson,
1615
01:29:43,591 --> 01:29:46,720
and one of them is that he's still part
of the California dream.
1616
01:29:46,720 --> 01:29:48,722
He wanted the dream.
He wanted the Hollywood dream.
1617
01:29:48,722 --> 01:29:49,889
He wanted to be a rock star.
1618
01:29:49,889 --> 01:29:53,143
He wanted to go through Dennis
to get to Terry Melcher.
1619
01:29:54,477 --> 01:29:57,897
{\an8}[Love] Dennis introduced Manson
to Terry Melcher.
1620
01:29:59,232 --> 01:30:01,317
But he was turned down by Terry.
1621
01:30:01,317 --> 01:30:04,404
And what happened next, happened next.
1622
01:30:04,404 --> 01:30:06,906
{\an8}[reporter] In a scene described
by one investigator
1623
01:30:06,906 --> 01:30:08,950
{\an8}as reminiscent of a weird religious rite,
1624
01:30:08,950 --> 01:30:12,829
{\an8}five persons, including actress
Sharon Tate, were found dead.
1625
01:30:13,621 --> 01:30:18,001
Manson went to Terry's house
that he used to rent, but Terry had moved.
1626
01:30:19,169 --> 01:30:21,379
That's where he had those people killed.
1627
01:30:22,088 --> 01:30:23,340
It was just awful.
1628
01:30:24,632 --> 01:30:27,302
And I think it weighed
upon Dennis pretty heavily,
1629
01:30:28,303 --> 01:30:32,807
because he had a hand
in introducing him to our world.
1630
01:30:35,518 --> 01:30:37,520
[Jardine] He's always felt bad about it
ever since.
1631
01:30:38,063 --> 01:30:39,314
It wasn't his fault.
1632
01:30:42,275 --> 01:30:46,946
[Love] We were in a rough patch,
and Murry must have thought it was over.
1633
01:30:48,573 --> 01:30:50,575
Murry was the publisher, remember?
1634
01:30:50,575 --> 01:30:52,994
He actually took over
the publishing catalog.
1635
01:30:53,620 --> 01:30:58,458
He, at one time, told us
he was gonna sell us back the publishing,
1636
01:30:58,458 --> 01:31:01,378
but he didn't.
1637
01:31:01,378 --> 01:31:04,172
[no audible dialogue]
1638
01:31:04,172 --> 01:31:08,176
[Wilson-Rutherford] Brian got a call,
and his father said, "I sold the catalog."
1639
01:31:09,219 --> 01:31:14,224
And Brian went, "You sold my songs?
How could you do that to me?"
1640
01:31:15,392 --> 01:31:17,894
Brian was real, real hurt.
1641
01:31:18,478 --> 01:31:20,063
It was very hard for him.
1642
01:31:21,606 --> 01:31:25,443
Murry just thought,
"The guys are gonna go so far for so long,
1643
01:31:25,443 --> 01:31:28,488
and then they're gonna die off,
just like all these other artists.
1644
01:31:28,488 --> 01:31:30,031
So I might as well cash in."
1645
01:31:33,535 --> 01:31:38,123
[Love] I wrote the words to many songs
Murry did not credit me on.
1646
01:31:39,541 --> 01:31:42,043
So I got cheated by my uncle.
1647
01:31:42,544 --> 01:31:45,046
But my cousin was going
through mental issues,
1648
01:31:45,046 --> 01:31:47,632
and he had no control over his father.
1649
01:31:49,050 --> 01:31:52,220
And, so... [stammers] What can you do?
1650
01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:55,682
[Wilson-Rutherford]
Brian was a half owner with Murry.
1651
01:31:55,682 --> 01:31:58,476
And what are you gonna do?
Go sue your own father?
1652
01:31:58,476 --> 01:32:00,395
No. He wasn't gonna do that.
1653
01:32:01,187 --> 01:32:06,359
It really hurt him, and I don't think he
got out of bed for three days after that.
1654
01:32:11,239 --> 01:32:13,241
[Brian] There were reflashes of LSD.
1655
01:32:13,241 --> 01:32:16,411
It was said I'm insecure.
I can't face this. I can't do this.
1656
01:32:16,411 --> 01:32:17,912
I'm gonna hide in my bedroom.
1657
01:32:18,705 --> 01:32:20,790
You know, Brian, he was troubled.
1658
01:32:22,751 --> 01:32:25,920
The guys would all be there,
and he says, "I'm just gonna stay in bed."
1659
01:32:27,297 --> 01:32:30,300
[Jardine] While we were recording
at his home in Beverly Hills,
1660
01:32:30,300 --> 01:32:34,346
he was reluctant
to come down and participate.
1661
01:32:39,100 --> 01:32:42,562
{\an8}[Dennis] I would go to his house daily
and beg, "What can I do to help you?"
1662
01:32:43,229 --> 01:32:44,564
For-- Forget recording.
1663
01:32:45,148 --> 01:32:48,318
I'd give up everything
just as long as my brother would be okay.
1664
01:32:50,278 --> 01:32:53,782
[Carl] It was very painful at times
to see Brian go through that.
1665
01:32:54,991 --> 01:32:56,201
And it was at that point
1666
01:32:56,201 --> 01:32:59,746
that Brian asked me
to become more involved in the production.
1667
01:33:02,874 --> 01:33:04,793
[Jardine]
Carl was Brian's protégée really.
1668
01:33:06,044 --> 01:33:09,089
And after all those years
attending the Wrecking Crew sessions,
1669
01:33:09,798 --> 01:33:10,965
Carl was ready for it.
1670
01:33:10,965 --> 01:33:14,135
- [Carl] Two. One, two, three. Go.
- [Carl] And I, of course, had led the band
1671
01:33:14,135 --> 01:33:16,137
from when he stopped touring back in '64.
1672
01:33:16,137 --> 01:33:18,098
So, I think it was kind of natural.
1673
01:33:18,765 --> 01:33:21,768
♪ This is the way ♪
1674
01:33:22,811 --> 01:33:25,063
♪ I always dreamed it would be ♪
1675
01:33:25,980 --> 01:33:28,316
♪ The way that it is ♪
1676
01:33:28,316 --> 01:33:32,112
♪ Oh, when you are holding me ♪
1677
01:33:33,196 --> 01:33:34,989
[Love] When Brian stopped producing,
1678
01:33:34,989 --> 01:33:40,078
it opened the door to more
of a democratic process in the studio.
1679
01:33:40,662 --> 01:33:47,544
♪ I can hear music ♪
1680
01:33:48,294 --> 01:33:50,088
[Love] You've got Dennis writing songs.
1681
01:33:50,088 --> 01:33:52,841
Bruce Johnston producing.
Al Jardine producing.
1682
01:33:52,841 --> 01:33:55,468
Of course,
I wrote many of those songs as well.
1683
01:33:55,468 --> 01:33:58,638
♪ I can hear music ♪
1684
01:33:59,222 --> 01:34:02,892
♪ Sweet, sweet music ♪
1685
01:34:02,892 --> 01:34:06,521
♪ Whenever you touch me, baby ♪
1686
01:34:07,022 --> 01:34:09,232
♪ Whenever you're near ♪
1687
01:34:11,943 --> 01:34:17,782
[Carl] But, of all of us, Dennis's music
began to evolve really quite amazingly.
1688
01:34:17,782 --> 01:34:20,285
["Forever" playing]
1689
01:34:21,828 --> 01:34:25,415
"Forever" was one of the great pieces
that Dennis created.
1690
01:34:26,082 --> 01:34:29,419
It just blew--
I mean, it just blew us away.
1691
01:34:30,712 --> 01:34:36,509
♪ If every word I said
could make you laugh ♪
1692
01:34:36,509 --> 01:34:42,307
- ♪ I'd talk forever ♪
- ♪ Together, my love ♪
1693
01:34:44,184 --> 01:34:47,604
♪ I ask the sky just what we had ♪
1694
01:34:48,146 --> 01:34:52,484
♪ Mmm
It shone forever ♪
1695
01:34:52,484 --> 01:34:54,986
[Wilson-Rutherford]
Dennis had all this hidden talent.
1696
01:34:55,653 --> 01:34:56,696
I used to watch him and go,
1697
01:34:56,696 --> 01:34:59,074
"God. I didn't know
he could play the piano like that."
1698
01:34:59,741 --> 01:35:00,784
He kinda hid that.
1699
01:35:01,368 --> 01:35:03,787
I think it was very hard for him
growing up.
1700
01:35:03,787 --> 01:35:07,707
He would be behind Brian
and try to match up to him musically.
1701
01:35:08,333 --> 01:35:11,419
But as Dennis got older,
he felt comfortable enough
1702
01:35:11,419 --> 01:35:14,631
to start bringing out, you know,
who he was musically.
1703
01:35:17,509 --> 01:35:22,347
♪ I've been so happy loving you ♪
1704
01:35:26,476 --> 01:35:29,729
[Kun] You listen
to those late-'60s records and early-'70s,
1705
01:35:29,729 --> 01:35:31,272
they sound like a different band.
1706
01:35:32,440 --> 01:35:35,443
And I do think maybe that's part of why
they weren't as popular,
1707
01:35:35,443 --> 01:35:37,153
is people didn't know
what to do with them.
1708
01:35:37,153 --> 01:35:43,952
♪ So hard to answer future's riddle
when ahead is seeming so far behind ♪
1709
01:35:43,952 --> 01:35:47,872
The Beach Boys as a sound
was so cemented on those early records.
1710
01:35:48,415 --> 01:35:50,709
It's almost like boy bands or kid actors
1711
01:35:50,709 --> 01:35:54,295
who can't shake
that first period of success.
1712
01:35:55,296 --> 01:35:56,798
It haunted them,
1713
01:35:56,798 --> 01:36:00,760
because your sense of self
starts circulating with that artifice.
1714
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:04,806
♪ But I hit hard at the battle
that's confronting me, yeah ♪
1715
01:36:04,806 --> 01:36:07,684
[Kun] My sense of their career
has always been,
1716
01:36:07,684 --> 01:36:11,771
"Well, we needed that to become
who we are, but who are we really?
1717
01:36:11,771 --> 01:36:13,231
Who are we as artists?"
1718
01:36:13,231 --> 01:36:15,400
And I don't think that struggle
ever left them.
1719
01:36:16,568 --> 01:36:19,571
♪ Long promised road ♪
1720
01:36:19,571 --> 01:36:21,906
[Johnston] We thought
the songs sounded great.
1721
01:36:22,490 --> 01:36:24,159
The public didn't think so.
1722
01:36:24,159 --> 01:36:27,829
We were down like $5,000 a night
for a gig. Can you believe that?
1723
01:36:28,538 --> 01:36:29,998
[Jardine] We were just slugging it out.
1724
01:36:29,998 --> 01:36:32,375
Doing what he had to do to survive.
1725
01:36:32,375 --> 01:36:35,628
♪ Long promised road ♪
1726
01:36:36,463 --> 01:36:37,964
We were no longer Beach Boys.
1727
01:36:38,673 --> 01:36:39,841
We were beach men.
1728
01:36:40,425 --> 01:36:42,218
In fact, we even tried to change the name.
1729
01:36:42,218 --> 01:36:44,429
I said, "Let's call ourselves 'Beach.'"
1730
01:36:47,223 --> 01:36:49,642
[Johnston] That would never work,
but Al was right.
1731
01:36:50,393 --> 01:36:53,188
The Beach Boys became uncool to listen to.
1732
01:36:55,899 --> 01:36:58,401
[Jardine] We became determined
to reinvent ourselves.
1733
01:37:00,070 --> 01:37:02,322
Let's get out
of this Beach Boys thing, you know?
1734
01:37:03,198 --> 01:37:06,409
♪ Don't go near the water ♪
1735
01:37:07,327 --> 01:37:09,746
♪ Don't you think it's sad? ♪
1736
01:37:09,746 --> 01:37:11,873
[Kun] That album has "surf" in the title,
1737
01:37:11,873 --> 01:37:15,293
but Surf's Up is not about the surf
being up and everything's being good.
1738
01:37:15,293 --> 01:37:18,880
The first song on that record is,
"Don't Go Near the Water."
1739
01:37:19,381 --> 01:37:23,259
♪ Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams ♪
1740
01:37:23,259 --> 01:37:25,637
{\an8}♪ Have all been touched by man ♪
1741
01:37:25,637 --> 01:37:28,056
[Jardine] We felt like
we were doing serious music, you know?
1742
01:37:28,056 --> 01:37:31,267
But, uh, it didn't help sell
the album particularly.
1743
01:37:33,812 --> 01:37:35,647
So we decided we needed a new sound.
1744
01:37:36,189 --> 01:37:40,151
In the past, Brian was the leader,
musically speaking.
1745
01:37:40,151 --> 01:37:43,571
But he didn't show up very much anymore
for the sessions.
1746
01:37:43,571 --> 01:37:47,909
[Love] In order to save the group,
sometimes things had to be done,
1747
01:37:47,909 --> 01:37:49,953
like more people getting involved.
1748
01:37:51,705 --> 01:37:56,710
{\an8}[Carl] Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin
were in a group called The Flames,
1749
01:37:56,710 --> 01:37:58,420
and we met them in London.
1750
01:37:58,420 --> 01:38:00,505
♪ Here she comes ♪
1751
01:38:01,798 --> 01:38:04,676
♪ Breathing life into my thoughts ♪
1752
01:38:04,676 --> 01:38:07,303
{\an8}[Fataar] They had this idea
to have me and Blonds join the group,
1753
01:38:07,303 --> 01:38:09,597
{\an8}and I just thought
it was just so ridiculous.
1754
01:38:09,597 --> 01:38:10,974
It just didn't seem possible
1755
01:38:10,974 --> 01:38:14,102
because it seemed
like such a tight-knit family thing.
1756
01:38:14,102 --> 01:38:17,272
And when we first joined the group,
it was weird adjusting.
1757
01:38:18,314 --> 01:38:21,276
♪ Wherever she goes
You know the devil dances ♪
1758
01:38:21,276 --> 01:38:23,778
♪ And the gods lay down in defeat ♪
1759
01:38:23,778 --> 01:38:26,156
[Chaplin] Being around them,
when we were working and stuff,
1760
01:38:26,156 --> 01:38:28,324
that was just a lovely experience.
1761
01:38:28,908 --> 01:38:31,536
{\an8}Of course, it wasn't as funky
as what we were used to.
1762
01:38:32,871 --> 01:38:34,414
{\an8}Well, in our way of funky.
1763
01:38:34,414 --> 01:38:36,708
["Wild Honey" playing]
1764
01:38:38,543 --> 01:38:42,339
When we got involved,
the music got a little harder.
1765
01:38:47,927 --> 01:38:52,640
For live, we pumped a whole lot more
than they used to.
1766
01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:55,602
And I'm not knocking you guys,
but whatever. [laughs]
1767
01:38:55,602 --> 01:39:00,732
♪ Mama, I'm tellin' you
as sure as I am standing here ♪
1768
01:39:02,233 --> 01:39:03,985
♪ She's my girl ♪
1769
01:39:03,985 --> 01:39:07,322
♪ Now that's the way I'm keeping it
Now, Mama, dear ♪
1770
01:39:08,156 --> 01:39:10,992
[Chaplin]
But things weren't going that great.
1771
01:39:11,868 --> 01:39:15,538
It wasn't at the big beach-- I mean,
things had calmed down quite a bit.
1772
01:39:17,540 --> 01:39:18,958
Beach Boys were hurting.
1773
01:39:22,462 --> 01:39:24,297
[Jardine] We were kinda on our last leg.
1774
01:39:25,131 --> 01:39:28,009
We all just felt we needed to get away
and reinvent ourselves.
1775
01:39:28,009 --> 01:39:32,013
[Love] And we had never been outside of
the United States in terms of recording.
1776
01:39:32,555 --> 01:39:34,432
And so, we went to Holland.
1777
01:39:35,684 --> 01:39:38,978
[Jardine] We were true to our music,
but we were on a downward spiral.
1778
01:39:40,063 --> 01:39:43,775
[Kun] They go from being
one of the most globally-known pop artists
1779
01:39:43,775 --> 01:39:45,610
to, some degree, falling off the map.
1780
01:39:46,528 --> 01:39:50,573
There's no thought process
that was governing the group
1781
01:39:50,573 --> 01:39:51,950
that made any sense at all.
1782
01:39:52,867 --> 01:39:55,036
[Jardine] And then Capitol,
unbeknownst to us,
1783
01:39:55,036 --> 01:39:57,789
decides to release
kind of like a big "Best of."
1784
01:39:58,331 --> 01:40:01,334
[announcer] Twenty of your favorite
original Beach Boys hits are now together
1785
01:40:01,334 --> 01:40:04,045
in a fabulous two-record set,
called Endless Summer.
1786
01:40:04,045 --> 01:40:10,135
♪ Do you love me
Do you, surfer girl ♪
1787
01:40:10,135 --> 01:40:12,679
[Jardine] The songs
were all from the early albums.
1788
01:40:13,471 --> 01:40:15,390
♪ Get her out of my heart ♪
1789
01:40:15,390 --> 01:40:18,143
It represented an era of positivity.
1790
01:40:18,143 --> 01:40:21,312
♪ And she'll have fun, fun, fun
'til her daddy takes the T-bird away ♪
1791
01:40:21,312 --> 01:40:25,025
And Endless Summer
became a number one smash album.
1792
01:40:26,026 --> 01:40:29,779
[Love] All of a sudden,
there's a new generation of record buyers.
1793
01:40:29,779 --> 01:40:32,073
So to them, it's all brand-new.
1794
01:40:32,073 --> 01:40:35,660
♪ I wish they all could be
California girls ♪
1795
01:40:35,660 --> 01:40:39,414
[Jardine] It was funny. That image we were
trying to get away from...
1796
01:40:39,414 --> 01:40:40,832
It's what saved us.
1797
01:40:42,625 --> 01:40:44,669
And that reenergized our career.
1798
01:40:45,503 --> 01:40:46,963
We got a second chance.
1799
01:40:46,963 --> 01:40:50,175
♪ If everybody had an ocean... ♪
1800
01:40:50,175 --> 01:40:54,054
You gotta remember,
they've been a touring band forever.
1801
01:40:54,054 --> 01:40:58,224
♪ Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like Californ-I-A ♪
1802
01:40:58,224 --> 01:41:01,644
[Randi] They're one of the few bands
that could reproduce their sound.
1803
01:41:02,187 --> 01:41:05,565
- ["Don't Worry Baby" playing]
- [audience cheering]
1804
01:41:08,985 --> 01:41:10,820
[Tedder] The Beatles stopped touring,
1805
01:41:10,820 --> 01:41:13,114
largely, in part,
because they couldn't play the stuff live.
1806
01:41:13,114 --> 01:41:18,661
♪ I hear the sound of a gentle word ♪
1807
01:41:19,371 --> 01:41:23,041
[Tedder] I can't imagine pulling off half
the stuff that The Beach Boys recorded.
1808
01:41:25,085 --> 01:41:27,253
[Jardine] And then
we started doing stadiums.
1809
01:41:27,253 --> 01:41:30,090
♪ And after having spent
The day together ♪
1810
01:41:30,090 --> 01:41:33,843
♪ Hold each other close
The whole night through ♪
1811
01:41:35,804 --> 01:41:38,598
[Jardine] And that's when
the 8-to-80 thing started happening.
1812
01:41:39,099 --> 01:41:41,851
We had the eight-year-olds coming,
and the 80-year-olds were coming.
1813
01:41:41,851 --> 01:41:43,937
[audience cheering]
1814
01:41:48,900 --> 01:41:50,318
[Love] We benefited by the fact
1815
01:41:50,318 --> 01:41:54,948
that our songs resonate with young people
no matter what generation they're in.
1816
01:41:54,948 --> 01:41:57,200
[audience cheering]
1817
01:41:57,200 --> 01:41:59,202
[Love] It's so great to be a part of that,
1818
01:41:59,202 --> 01:42:03,373
and the fact that my cousin Brian and I
got together and wrote some great songs
1819
01:42:03,373 --> 01:42:04,958
that people still like to hear.
1820
01:42:05,875 --> 01:42:10,130
However, because my uncle Murry
sold the publishing,
1821
01:42:10,130 --> 01:42:11,548
we didn't own the songs.
1822
01:42:12,966 --> 01:42:16,302
So he screwed his own sons
and grandchildren.
1823
01:42:22,350 --> 01:42:24,853
[Wilson-Rutherford] At the beginning,
they depended on Murry.
1824
01:42:24,853 --> 01:42:28,064
And if there was no Murry,
there would be no Beach Boys.
1825
01:42:28,815 --> 01:42:33,862
But Murry didn't have the vision to see
what the catalog would bring in.
1826
01:42:34,612 --> 01:42:36,614
The hundreds of millions of dollars.
1827
01:42:37,782 --> 01:42:40,201
You know, and he sold this thing
for, like, 700,000.
1828
01:42:44,205 --> 01:42:48,626
[Love] Because Murry did not credit me
on the songs I cowrote with Brian,
1829
01:42:49,669 --> 01:42:54,049
the only avenue I thought that I had
to get credit was to file a lawsuit.
1830
01:42:56,760 --> 01:42:58,803
I think that was kinda where we lost it.
1831
01:43:03,641 --> 01:43:07,937
I go, "Wait a minute, guys.
Hold on here. What's the deal?" You know?
1832
01:43:10,398 --> 01:43:15,070
After that,
we sort of got separated a little bit.
1833
01:43:22,827 --> 01:43:25,663
[Love] There have been ups and downs
in our relationship...
1834
01:43:30,126 --> 01:43:33,004
and, these days,
we don't really talk much.
1835
01:43:38,718 --> 01:43:42,305
But, you know, if I could,
I'd probably just tell him...
1836
01:43:48,061 --> 01:43:49,145
that I love him.
1837
01:43:52,023 --> 01:43:53,024
And nothing...
1838
01:43:55,151 --> 01:43:57,904
anybody could do could erase that.
1839
01:43:57,904 --> 01:43:59,989
["Good Vibrations" playing]
1840
01:44:05,203 --> 01:44:10,291
♪ Gotta keep
Those lovin' good vibrations ♪
1841
01:44:10,291 --> 01:44:12,377
♪ A-happenin' with you ♪
1842
01:44:12,961 --> 01:44:17,966
♪ Gotta keep
Those lovin' good vibrations ♪
1843
01:44:17,966 --> 01:44:20,468
♪ A-happenin' with you ♪
1844
01:44:20,468 --> 01:44:25,557
♪ Gotta keep
Those lovin' good vibrations ♪
1845
01:44:25,557 --> 01:44:27,142
♪ A-happenin' with you ♪
1846
01:44:27,767 --> 01:44:31,855
[Carl] I asked Brian one time,
"Why do you think we succeeded?"
1847
01:44:33,148 --> 01:44:36,651
He said, "Well, I think the music
celebrated the joy of life
1848
01:44:37,736 --> 01:44:39,863
in a real simple way.
1849
01:44:40,572 --> 01:44:43,158
Just a real direct experience
of joyfulness."
1850
01:44:43,158 --> 01:44:45,243
[music continues]
1851
01:44:46,494 --> 01:44:48,121
[chattering]
1852
01:44:50,665 --> 01:44:54,002
[Kun] Their music was part
of a widespread desire
1853
01:44:54,002 --> 01:44:57,839
to believe in the possibility
of a California dream,
1854
01:44:58,506 --> 01:45:01,092
even if it doesn't seem to line up
in neat ways.
1855
01:45:01,676 --> 01:45:04,679
["A Day in the Life of a Tree" playing]
1856
01:45:09,976 --> 01:45:12,645
[Kun] A band who's known for surfing
who didn't surf.
1857
01:45:14,022 --> 01:45:16,024
A band that's synonymous with the beach
1858
01:45:16,024 --> 01:45:18,943
that record songs
about staying in your room.
1859
01:45:20,028 --> 01:45:22,447
[audience cheering]
1860
01:45:23,114 --> 01:45:28,745
They represent much more complexity than,
I think, most people give them credit for.
1861
01:45:29,287 --> 01:45:31,289
[Carl] There's someone with us tonight.
1862
01:45:31,289 --> 01:45:34,542
He's responsible for us being here, period.
1863
01:45:34,542 --> 01:45:36,961
Let's hear it for Brian! Come on!
1864
01:45:36,961 --> 01:45:40,173
[Monáe] They soundtrack
the best parts of life.
1865
01:45:40,757 --> 01:45:43,343
And their sound is one of one.
1866
01:45:44,928 --> 01:45:48,348
But I think none of them would have been
able to shine without each other.
1867
01:45:48,348 --> 01:45:50,433
[harmonizing]
1868
01:45:57,774 --> 01:46:01,569
[Love] A lot of people
have a favorite in the group, you know?
1869
01:46:01,569 --> 01:46:04,656
But a group is a group.
1870
01:46:04,656 --> 01:46:06,700
[music continues]
1871
01:46:06,700 --> 01:46:08,159
[no audible dialogue]
1872
01:46:09,953 --> 01:46:12,414
The Beach Boys are a family story,
1873
01:46:14,124 --> 01:46:16,292
not without its ups and downs,
1874
01:46:18,003 --> 01:46:21,006
but the positivity
far outweighs the negativity.
1875
01:46:38,982 --> 01:46:41,985
[music fades]
1876
01:46:41,985 --> 01:46:45,071
[audience cheering, whistling]
1877
01:46:46,448 --> 01:46:47,615
[announcer] Welcome!
1878
01:46:47,615 --> 01:46:52,162
{\an8}Welcome all 400,000 of you
on this beautiful day.
1879
01:46:52,162 --> 01:46:57,834
{\an8}We are proud to present
the one and only Beach Boys!
1880
01:46:57,834 --> 01:46:59,336
[audience cheering]
1881
01:46:59,336 --> 01:47:00,920
["Darlin'" playing]
1882
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:03,173
♪ Oh, d-d-d-d-darlin' ♪
1883
01:47:03,173 --> 01:47:07,552
♪ Ooh, ooh, my darlin', you're so fine ♪
1884
01:47:07,552 --> 01:47:11,639
[vocalizing]
1885
01:47:15,185 --> 01:47:17,187
{\an8}♪ Don't know if words could say ♪
1886
01:47:18,313 --> 01:47:20,565
{\an8}♪ But, darlin', I'll find a way ♪
1887
01:47:21,107 --> 01:47:24,277
{\an8}♪ To let you know what you meant to me ♪
1888
01:47:24,903 --> 01:47:27,906
{\an8}♪ Guess it was meant to be ♪
1889
01:47:27,906 --> 01:47:30,992
{\an8}♪ I hold you in my heart ♪
1890
01:47:31,659 --> 01:47:34,371
{\an8}♪ As life's most precious part ♪
1891
01:47:35,121 --> 01:47:38,208
{\an8}- ♪ Oh, darlin' ♪
- ♪ Oh, keep dreamin' of darlin' ♪
1892
01:47:38,208 --> 01:47:41,002
{\an8}- ♪ I dream about you often, my darlin' ♪
- ♪ My darlin', you're so fine ♪
1893
01:47:41,002 --> 01:47:43,880
{\an8}♪ I love the way you soften my life
with your love ♪
1894
01:47:43,880 --> 01:47:48,051
{\an8}♪ Your precious love, uh-huh, oh ♪
1895
01:47:50,053 --> 01:47:52,389
♪ I was feelin' like half a man ♪
1896
01:47:53,306 --> 01:47:55,642
♪ Then I couldn't love, but now I can ♪
1897
01:47:56,309 --> 01:47:59,604
♪ You pick me up when I'm feelin' sad ♪
1898
01:47:59,604 --> 01:48:02,649
{\an8}♪ More soul than I ever had ♪
1899
01:48:03,191 --> 01:48:05,402
{\an8}♪ Gonna love you every single night ♪
1900
01:48:06,277 --> 01:48:08,571
♪ 'Cause I think you're too outta sight ♪
1901
01:48:09,864 --> 01:48:13,118
- ♪ Oh, oh, darlin' ♪
- ♪ Oh, keep dreamin' of darlin' ♪
1902
01:48:13,118 --> 01:48:15,620
♪ I dream about you often
My pretty darlin' ♪
1903
01:48:15,620 --> 01:48:18,748
♪ I love the way you soften my life
With your love ♪
1904
01:48:18,748 --> 01:48:21,835
♪ Your precious love, oh, oh ♪
1905
01:48:24,838 --> 01:48:28,258
{\an8}♪ Every night, oh ♪
1906
01:48:30,051 --> 01:48:33,471
♪ Every night
Oh, darlin' ♪
1907
01:48:34,514 --> 01:48:38,059
♪ Gonna love you every single night
Yes, I will ♪
1908
01:48:38,059 --> 01:48:41,396
♪ 'Cause I think you're too doggone
Outta sight, outta sight ♪
1909
01:48:41,396 --> 01:48:43,356
♪ Yeah, yeah, my darlin' ♪
1910
01:48:43,356 --> 01:48:46,776
{\an8}♪ I dream about you often
My pretty darlin' ♪
1911
01:48:46,776 --> 01:48:49,904
{\an8}♪ I love the way you soften my life
With your love ♪
1912
01:48:49,904 --> 01:48:52,782
♪ Your precious love, oh ♪
1913
01:48:53,324 --> 01:48:55,744
{\an8}♪ Oh ♪
1914
01:48:55,744 --> 01:48:58,830
{\an8}♪ Every night, oh ♪
1915
01:48:58,830 --> 01:49:01,124
{\an8}♪ I keep dreamin' 'bout darlin' ♪
1916
01:49:01,124 --> 01:49:04,336
{\an8}♪ Every night
Oh, darlin' ♪
1917
01:49:05,712 --> 01:49:07,714
[applause, cheering]
1918
01:49:07,714 --> 01:49:09,632
[Brian speaking, indistinct]
1919
01:49:09,632 --> 01:49:11,051
Thank you very much.
1920
01:49:12,385 --> 01:49:14,095
Enjoy the fireworks!
1921
01:49:14,095 --> 01:49:16,181
[audience cheering]
1922
01:49:18,725 --> 01:49:19,976
Thank you again.
1923
01:49:24,814 --> 01:49:28,401
["Kokomo" playing]
1924
01:49:28,401 --> 01:49:30,820
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1925
01:49:30,820 --> 01:49:34,866
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1926
01:49:34,866 --> 01:49:36,951
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1927
01:49:36,951 --> 01:49:41,081
♪ Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go ♪
1928
01:49:41,081 --> 01:49:47,003
♪ Jamaica
Off the Florida Keys ♪
1929
01:49:48,088 --> 01:49:51,591
♪ There's a place called Kokomo ♪
1930
01:49:52,217 --> 01:49:57,722
♪ That's where you wanna go
To get away from it all ♪
1931
01:50:00,642 --> 01:50:03,978
♪ Bodies in the sand ♪
1932
01:50:04,479 --> 01:50:08,316
♪ Tropical drink melting in your hand ♪
1933
01:50:08,858 --> 01:50:15,031
♪ We'll be falling in love
To the rhythm of a steel drum band ♪
1934
01:50:15,031 --> 01:50:16,408
♪ Down in Kokomo ♪
1935
01:50:16,408 --> 01:50:18,493
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1936
01:50:18,493 --> 01:50:22,622
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1937
01:50:22,622 --> 01:50:24,666
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1938
01:50:24,666 --> 01:50:26,793
♪ Key Largo
Montego ♪
1939
01:50:26,793 --> 01:50:30,922
- ♪ Baby, why don't we go ♪
- ♪ Ooh, I wanna take you down to Kokomo ♪
1940
01:50:30,922 --> 01:50:35,301
♪ We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow ♪
1941
01:50:35,301 --> 01:50:39,764
♪ That's where we wanna go ♪
1942
01:50:39,764 --> 01:50:41,558
♪ Way down in Kokomo ♪
1943
01:50:41,558 --> 01:50:45,562
♪ Martinique
That Montserrat mystique ♪
1944
01:50:46,187 --> 01:50:50,108
♪ We'll put out to sea ♪
1945
01:50:50,108 --> 01:50:53,778
♪ And we'll perfect our chemistry ♪
1946
01:50:54,529 --> 01:50:59,743
♪ By and by we'll defy
A little bit of gravity ♪
1947
01:51:02,829 --> 01:51:06,916
♪ Afternoon delight ♪
1948
01:51:06,916 --> 01:51:10,795
♪ Cocktails and moonlight nights ♪
1949
01:51:10,795 --> 01:51:12,922
♪ That dreamy look in your eye ♪
1950
01:51:12,922 --> 01:51:17,052
♪ Give me a tropical contact high ♪
1951
01:51:17,052 --> 01:51:18,720
♪ Way down in Kokomo ♪
1952
01:51:18,720 --> 01:51:20,722
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1953
01:51:20,722 --> 01:51:24,851
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1954
01:51:24,851 --> 01:51:26,895
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1955
01:51:26,895 --> 01:51:29,022
♪ Key Largo
Montego ♪
1956
01:51:29,022 --> 01:51:33,151
- ♪ Baby, why don't we go ♪
- ♪ Ooh, I wanna take you down to Kokomo ♪
1957
01:51:33,151 --> 01:51:37,530
♪ We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow ♪
1958
01:51:37,530 --> 01:51:41,951
♪ That's where we wanna go ♪
1959
01:51:41,951 --> 01:51:43,787
♪ Way down in Kokomo ♪
1960
01:51:43,787 --> 01:51:47,749
♪ Port au Prince
I wanna catch a glimpse ♪
1961
01:52:05,100 --> 01:52:08,937
♪ Everybody knows ♪
1962
01:52:08,937 --> 01:52:12,691
♪ A little place like Kokomo ♪
1963
01:52:13,316 --> 01:52:18,738
♪ Now if you wanna go
And get away from it all ♪
1964
01:52:19,364 --> 01:52:20,990
♪ Go down to Kokomo ♪
1965
01:52:20,990 --> 01:52:22,951
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1966
01:52:22,951 --> 01:52:27,038
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1967
01:52:27,038 --> 01:52:29,124
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1968
01:52:29,124 --> 01:52:31,251
♪ Key Largo
Montego ♪
1969
01:52:31,251 --> 01:52:35,380
- ♪ Baby, why don't we go ♪
- ♪ Ooh, I wanna take you down to Kokomo ♪
1970
01:52:35,380 --> 01:52:39,467
♪ We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow ♪
1971
01:52:39,968 --> 01:52:44,222
♪ That's where we wanna go ♪
1972
01:52:44,222 --> 01:52:45,849
♪ Way down in Kokomo ♪
1973
01:52:45,849 --> 01:52:47,809
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1974
01:52:47,809 --> 01:52:51,938
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1975
01:52:51,938 --> 01:52:54,024
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1976
01:52:54,024 --> 01:52:56,276
♪ Key Largo
Montego ♪
1977
01:52:56,276 --> 01:52:57,360
[music fades]