9780735212336-0735212333-Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

ISBN-13: 9780735212336
ISBN-10: 0735212333
Edition: Reprint
Author: Mike Love, James S. Hirsch
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Format: Paperback 472 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780735212336
ISBN-10: 0735212333
Edition: Reprint
Author: Mike Love, James S. Hirsch
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Format: Paperback 472 pages

Summary

Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (ISBN-13: 9780735212336 and ISBN-10: 0735212333), written by authors Mike Love, James S. Hirsch, was published by Blue Rider Press in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Musical Genres (Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Musical Genres books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.44.

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Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling Good Vibrations tells the story of Mike Love's legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of the Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history.

As a founding member of the Beach Boys, Mike Love has spent an extraordinary fifty-five years--and counting--as the group's lead singer and one of its principal lyricists. The Beach Boys, from their California roots to their international fame, are a unique American story--one of overnight success and age-defying longevity; of musical genius and reckless self-destruction; of spirituality, betrayal, and forgiveness--and Love is the only band member to be part of it each and every step. His own story has never been fully told, of how a sheet-metal apprentice became the quintessential front man for America's most successful rock band, singing in more than 5,600 concerts in twenty-six countries.

Love describes the stories behind his lyrics for pop classics such as "Good Vibrations," "California Girls," "Surfin' USA," and "Kokomo," while providing vivid portraits of the turbulent lives of his three gifted cousins, Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson. His partnership with Brian has few equals in American pop music, though Mike has carved out a legacy of his own--he cowrote the lyrics to eleven of the twelve original Beach Boy songs that were Top 10 hits while providing he lead vocals on ten of them. The band's unprecedented durability also provides a glimpse into America's changing cultural mores over the past half century, while Love himself has experienced both the diabolical and the divine--from Charles Manson's "family" threatening his life to Maharishi instilling it with peace. A husband, a father, and an avid environmentalist, Love has written a book that is as rich and layered as the Beach Boy harmonies themselves.
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