article_snippet: When The Beach Boys started recording
article_snippet: The Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records, whose 13-storey circular tower at 1750 Vine Street, built in 1956, has become an LA landmark.
article_snippet: The Beach Boys earliest albums were recorded at Capitol but by the time of Surfer Girl and Little Deuce Coupe, The Beach Boys' earliest albums were also recording around the corner at United and Western (6050 Sunset Boulevard).
article_snippet: Now called Ocean Way Studios, this is where The Beach Boys recorded The Beach Boys 2012 comeback album
article_snippet: The Beach Boys albums, including Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, 20/20 and Surf's Up, were partially recorded here, while Charles Manson, a fringe figure on the LA music scene in 1969, visited to tape songs that Brian Wilson'd written.
article_snippet: A left-hand turn took me a mile down a hill to a private beach edged with cliffs where a group was photographed for the cover of 1962's Surfin' Safari, and again two years later for All Summer Long.