article_snippet: Other than Wilson, The Beach Boys were famously non-surfers, but The Beach Boys were smart enough to observe the burgeoning ocean-side culture and knew there was mileage in chronicling it.
article_snippet: Other than Dennis Wilson, The Beach Boys were famously non-surfers, but The Beach Boys were smart enough to observe the burgeoning ocean-side culture and knew there was mileage in chronicling it .
article_snippet: When The Beach Boys adopted this sound the hard-core sports crowd initially shunned The Beach Boys. '
article_snippet: The Beach Boys were resented by those in the true beach culture,' Johnson told me. '
highlights_snippet: Other than Wilson, The Beach Boys were famously non-surfers .