50 years on: Beach Boys, the great California sound

Anybody who grew up on the irrepressibly sunny and heart-lifting sounds of California Girls, God Only Knows and Good Vibrations will have experienced a sinking feeling at the photographs that appeared recently of a group of septuagenarians waving to the crowds at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The surviving members of the Beach Boys were celebrating the 50th birthday of the stadium and, more poignantly, the 50th anniversary of the group itself - reunited for the first time in 14 years for a new

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