1967 was a tough year for The Beach Boys. While their chief
rivals The Beatles were dropping jaws with Sgt.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Brian Wilson terminated his struggle to
create SMiLE, an ambitious project
that would have made Pepper’s sound
like Please Please Me. Despite an
invitation to perform at the taste-making Monterey Pop Festival, The Beach Boys
pulled out, supposedly out of fear that they would look pathetically unhip
sharing a stage with the likes of Hendrix, The Who, and Jefferson
Airplane. Unable to follow up on the smash commercial and artistic success of
“Good Vibrations” in 1966, our boys from Hawthorne seemed to be in a pretty
grim way in ’67.
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