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The Beach Boys - Love You

Pet Sounds isn't Brian Wilson's only masterpiece. This is the story of 1977's Love You, an unheralded classic.

It's one of rock's great stories, Brian Wilson, the boy genius, driven to a breakdown after making Pet Sounds as he tried to beat the Beatles. But a story that's not often told is how Brian pulled himself back from the brink in the late 70s to make one of the most personal - and weird - records ever made.

With songs about airplanes, beeping the horn of a car, the planets, and TV talk show host Johnny Carson, 1977's The Beach Boys Love You is an erratic masterpiece, a synth-driven odyssey into the mind of Brian Wilson.

Using classic tracks and archive, Steven Rainey explores the album that forever changed The Beach Boys.

57 minutes

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Sun 15 Jun 2025 14:03

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  • Sun 15 Jun 2025 14:03