If you understand this, you’ll love “Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys in Critical Perspective“
✅ https://www.amazon.com/Good-Vibrations-Critical-Perspective-Tracking/dp/0472119958
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An excerpt from “Summer of ‘64 chapter by Keri Keightkey:
ReplyDeleteAn undated ‘Teen Set’ magazine...highlights Wilson’s authorship in an article entitled ‘Brian Births a New Song’ that quotes actress Peggy Lipton on how Beatles “Paul and John are infatuated with the Beach Boy sound ... They played ‘All Summer Long’ all night long and asked me many questions about them. Paul and John were fascinated by Brian’s style of composing and arranging“ (12).
From Chapter 3: “Summer of ‘64” by Keith Keightley: “The pioneering uses of slang in a teen pop context reveal how Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys helped construct the terms of a rock culture that would later classify them as anachronistic orcsquare.”
ReplyDeleteSlang examples provided by the author: “Cruzin every pad ... her old man ... I am a real cool head ... a groovy little motorbike ...will I dig those sounds ... will they think their old man’s really a square ... “and possibly the earliest appearance of the expression ‘turn on’ in the US top 40: Will I still like the things that turn me on as a kid.”
Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective, Philip Lambert, editor