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The Beach Boys’ New ‘Feel Flows’ Box Set: An Exclusive Guide
We run down 10 revelatory moments from the upcoming collection focusing on the group’s pivotal 1969–71 era
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Iconic Artists Group LLC/Brother Records Inc.*
At the dawn of the Seventies, the Beach Boys had a lot to prove. Their pop success was a thing of the past — even artistic triumphs like
Pet Sounds and
Wild Honey were commercial flops. The boys of summer were pushing 30 by now, bearded dads reckoning with marriage, divorce, changing times. When they went to work at Brian Wilson’s home studio on Bellagio Road in Bel Air, they were struggling to find their place in a new world that had written them off as a nostalgia act. But the Beach Boys found their adult voices on