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Title: The standard in music journalism
Review: Only a handful of rock biographies have made the effort to place a band in its social, familial and historical context. The Beach Boys were America's greatest band in the sixties and this brilliantly researched exegesis tells the story of Brian Wilson's genius as well as such a mysterious phenomenon can ever be explained. In the process, it also tells the story of Southern California: both the escapist myth that came alive in the music of the Beach Boys, and the bizarre reality of a subculture that could nurture and destroy such creativity. Timothy White is the standard in music journalism.
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