NOTE:
This
space is devoted to news/updates and information on the Beach Boys that
appears in news outlets around the world. The Beach Boys have
entered public consiousness to such a degree that new bands are
compared with them, their songs are played at numerous functions, and
their names are frequently mentioned in the same breath with Summer,
the California dream, and of course, surfing and cars. Since
I began collecting these stories, I've been amazed at how far and how
deeply the Beach Boys' influence has penetrated. Their music
has reshaped people's ideas of American Pop Music and the subjects they
sang about continue to
resonate worldwide. Check here to
read what is being said about Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys
and for news of updates to this site.
January
3, 2012
AndersonValleyPost.com
Among
his many musical influences, Raye points to The Beach
Boys, Elton John, Johnny Cash
and Waylon Jennings, according to his Facebook page.
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Amarillo.com (blog)
...
The Everly Brothers, Wayne Newton, Doris Day, The Beach
Boys and Frank Sintra, to name
just a few. His piano stylings -- combining, in equal measure, ...
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HitFix
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Grand Island Independent
...
the decades through the Wilson brothers (Beach
Boys), the Davies brothers
(Kinks), the Allman Brothers and even the Brothers Gibb (aka, the Bee
Gees).
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The
Huntsville
Times - al.com
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Hollywood Reporter
W2
is also co-financing and handling worldwide sales on The Drummer, a
biopic of Beach Boys
drummer Dennis Wilson, which will star Aaron Eckhart and Vera ...
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Hollywood
Reporter
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Britscene
Featuring
songs from artists such as David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Beach
Boys, Simon and Garfunkel,
Dusty Springfield and Electric Light Orchestra, ...
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Britscene
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Wicked Local
Here's
the sunny Beach Boys
number where the new lovers are all aglow; here's the angular,
mid-career Beatles one about the fear of being cheated on.
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Long Beach Press-Telegram
Speakers
will include actor-musician Billy Bob Thornton and actor and sometime-Beach
Boys drummer John Stamos.
America will perform a concert and hold a ...
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Techdirt
You
may have heard that, last year, the Beach
Boys' Smile album was finally
released, despite being recorded in 1966. An artist, by the name of
Erik den ...
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Forbes
First
Ms. Genzer used the song “The Little Old Lady From
Pasadena” in her report and attributed it to The Beach
Boys. This got a lot of
listener comments ...
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PW-Philadelphia Weekly (blog)
With
a new album coming that ?uestlove told Pitchfork “For all
intents and purposes… is the black version of [The Beach
Boys'] Smile.” WHAT!
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PW-Philadelphia
Weekly (blog)
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LAist
Trujillo
also added that years after she left Berndt's class, he sent her
Christmas cards, Beach Boys
tapes and Hostess pastries—looking back she says it ...
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LAist
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Gibson
The
film is set to start shooting June in conjunction with the 50 th
anniversary of the Beach Boys
and will be filmed in Southern California and Savannah, ...
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Gibson
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Green Bay Press Gazette
Those
include such veteran rock acts as Madonna, Bruce Springsteen &
The E Street Band, Roger Waters with “The Wall,”
the reunited Van Halen, the Beach
Boys ...
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Los
Angeles
Times
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The Alestle
...
REO Speedwagon, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Eagles, The Beach
Boys, The Grateful Dead, Janis
Joplin, BB King, Tina Turner… we could go on.
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ThisweekLive
...
when it travels to Europe and features Home Free's upbeat
interpretations of songs by the likes of the Beatles, the Beach
Boys and Simon &
Garfunkel.
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ThisweekLive
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Yahoo! Philippines News
Iconic
US band The Beach Boys
stated in December that they expect to appear at the Grammys ahead of a
50th anniversary reunion tour, although they were not ...
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Yahoo!
Philippines News
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This is Somerset
The
new record's called Look At Life and features a Beach
Boys style song about drinking
called Cider Safari, songs about Tom Jones (She's Gonna Give Tom ...
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DIG Magazine
I
guess after a while your love eventually will last forever---through
summer and winters according to The Beach
Boys. It'll just float on as
you spend your ...
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Lexington Herald Leader
Big-name
acts of long standing, including Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers,
the reunited Beach Boys
and, it's expected, the Rolling Stones will be on tour.
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Lexington
Herald Leader
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Entertainment Focus
Sharing
a love of artists as diverse as The Beatles, The Beach
Boys, Maroon 5 and Incubus, the
two musicians developed their own sound as they pushed ...
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ClashMusic.com
...
80's guitar bands like Aztec Camera and in particular the vocal parts
are so well executed its almost too good, Beach
Boys standard (I kid you not).
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ClashMusic.com
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Sydney Morning Herald
Aaron
Eckhart to headline biopic The Drummer about Beach
Boys tub thumper Dennis Wilson.
Vera Farmiga to co-star as Fleetwood Mac's Christina McVie.
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Sydney
Morning
Herald
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A.V. Club Denver/Boulder
We
were doing so much three-part harmony because we were obsessed with the
Beach
Boys back in 1999, or whatever.
I remember it was kind of a novelty act for ...
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A.V.
Club
Denver/Boulder
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jambands.com
This
year's Grammys also promises to feature a performance by the recently
reunited Beach Boys
as well as appearances by both The Allman Brothers Band and ...
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jambands.com
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NZ City
The
'Up in the Air' star will play the part of Christine McVie in the
biopic about Beach Boys
drummer Dennis Wilson, which is being directed by Randall ...
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PerezHilton.com
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SouthCoastToday.com
...
classic songs and albums Russell contributed to as a studio musician
— from the Beach
Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun" to Frank
Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night.
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HitFix
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Arizona Daily Star
Berndt
had always been kind to her, buying her Hostess pastries, and sending
her tapes of the Beach Boys
and Christmas cards for several years after she ...
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USA
TODAY
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Mason City Globe Gazette
Jeff
Nicholas, president of that organization's board of directors, said
artists who perform at the Surf, such as The Beach
Boys and Faith Hill, ...
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February
2, 2012
Fort Worth Star Telegram
...
such as the '65 Pontiac GTO or the '56 T-bird, but it's also a look at
the fact that the Beach Boys
sang popular songs about both those models.
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Fort
Worth Star
Telegram
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Toronto Star
...
picked 199th in the 2000 draft, towers over the oft-brilliant Manning
— an Ali to a Frazier, an Affirmed to an Alydar, the Beatles
to the Beach Boys.
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USA
TODAY
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San Diego CityBEAT
In
time, they became a full band and developed a sound often compared to
The Band or The Beach Boys.
The band trudged along, logging time in Philly and on ...
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San
Diego
CityBEAT
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A.V. Club
Dr.
Dog is a Philadelphia five-piece with an affinity for '60s-era pop
(think The Beatles, The Beach
Boys, The Band). That affinity
is the bane of those who ...
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A.V.
Club
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San Jose Mercury News
The
Beach
Boys: This isn't so
far-fetched. Brian Wilson is back with the band, cooking up a new
record and tour. That said, John Stamos shouldn't be ...
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Metrowny.com
...
Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson, along with working on
numerous projects for Phil Spector and the Beach
Boys, Campbell's music career
took a ...
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Metrowny.com
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Deadline.com
From
the producer of Billy Elliot comes this funny, coming of age film
featuring songs from artists such as David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Beach
Boys, Simon and ...
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New
York Times
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YorkRegion.com
...
a rock band called Silence The Sirens, two Beach
Boys tribute bands, plus
several different tribute shows including Dion and The Belmonts, Elvis
Presley ...
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San Antonio Express
There
might be a touch of Motown in the We Leave At Midnight sound,
particularly when it comes to the backing vocals, but there's plenty of
Beach
Boys and ...
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PopMatters
The
amazing thing is that they finished at all; like the Beach
Boys, Eagles, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Guns N' Roses and Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen is part of ...
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PopMatters
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TheWrap
Further
fueling that argument is that EMI's strength is in not in its roster of
active artists but its catalog of The Beatles and The Beach
Boys.
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Straits
Times
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Ultimate Classic Rock
For
Beach
Boys fans, the story of drummer
Dennis Wilson has long been one of rock's most tragic tales, but to the
larger record-buying public, ...
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Artistdirect.com
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Contactmusic.com
But
Viv adds a twist to the play: she turns it into a musical, featuring
current hits from David Bowie and The Beach
Boys. This garners a mixed
reaction ...
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Contactmusic.com
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PakistanToday.com.pk
Iconic
US band The Beach Boys
announced in December that they expect to appear at the Grammys, ahead
of a 50th anniversary reunion tour, although they were ...
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PakistanToday.com.pk
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Times Press Recorder
...
Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, the Who, Simon & Garfunkel, the
Beach
Boys, Jimi Hendrix, Neil
Sedaka, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and the Byrds.
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The Awl
That's
the sad story of Erik den Breejen, whose show just closed in NYC on a
sour note, as Van Dyke Parks, lyricist for the Beach
Boys' "Smile," took quite ...
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The
Awl
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SportsPageMagazine.com
...
Eli Manning on the radio they gave us," said 11-year-old Javen Stucker
of Kokomo -- the city in Indiana, not the island made famous by the Beach
Boys.
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Waterford Today
Their
quirky take on pop music won them a wide selection of admirers
including legendary Beach Boys
producer Van Dyke Parks, Bono (who tried to get them to ...
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RTE.ie
Variety
reports that Farmiga will star as Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter
Christine McVie in the indie music biopic about Beach
Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, ...
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Artistdirect.com
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ClashMusic.com
He
namechecks The Ronettes, Captain Beefheart, Suicide and The Beach
Boys as influences.
“I wanted to embrace that this time, and not try and drag the
tunes ...
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ClashMusic.com
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The Guardian
...
of tyrannical fathers vicariously living their dreams of pop stardom
through their children: that remains the Beach
Boys' patriarch Murry Wilson, ...
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The
Guardian
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Detroit Free Press
Those
include such veteran rock acts as Madonna, Bruce Springsteen &
the E Street Band, Roger Waters with "The Wall," the reunited Van
Halen, the Beach Boys
...
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Los
Angeles
Times
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PerezHilton.com
By
the summer, production will begin on The Drummer, a biopic following
the life of Dennis Wilson of The Beach
Boys. As Aaron Eckhart has
already been ...
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PerezHilton.com
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VVN Music
The
Beach
Boys drummer is going to be
played by Aaron Eckhart while Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, with
whom Wilson had a lengthy relationship after her ...
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VVN
Music
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Cue
the Beach Boys
music and wax the surfboard, Minnesota is taking on a bit of California
color, and it's not just because of the February thaw.
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February
1, 2012
GalleristNY
By
Dan Duray 6:18pm Emerging painter Erik den Breejen was slapped with a
lawsuit after he informed Beach
Boys lyricist Van Dyke Parks
about a recent series ...
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GalleristNY
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OCRegister
4,
with Beach Boys
tribute Surfin' Safari) and English reggae outfit Steel Pulse (Aug. 12,
with Huntington Beach's Dirty Heads opening).
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Huffington Post
Listen
to Ringo's new Latin-infused track "Samba," which he wrote with Beach
Boys' contributor Van Dyke
Park, and to samples of the rest of "Ringo 2012" ...
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Contactmusic.com
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Vancouver Sun
The
amazing thing is that they finished at all; like the Beach
Boys, Eagles, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Guns N' Roses and Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen is part of ...
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Music
News
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Chicago Tribune
...
tape machines with a bevy of odd instruments and imaginations teeming
with ideas inspired by the Beatles, Zombies and the Beach
Boys' “Pet Sounds.
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NME.com
'Ringo
2012' has been produced by the drummer himself and also features
collaborations with Beach Boys
collaborator Van Dyke Parks and Alanis Morissette ...
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NME.com
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Greeley Gazette
by
Stu Wright The 1963 Beach Boys
hit was the b-side single opposite “Surfer Girl,”
and was about a b-car; the 1932 Ford model B.
“Deuce” in the song title ...
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Hollywood Today Newsmagazine
The
film goes before the cameras June 15 th , 2012 to coincide with the 50
th anniversary of The Beach
Boys and will be shot in
Southern California and ...
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stv.tv
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Zap2it.com (blog)
The
clip stars everyone's favorite Beach
Boys fan teaching you how to
cuddle. With signature moves like the Stamos Swaddler, the Stamos
Smoother and the ...
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gulfnews.com
The
Happy Mondays follow The Stone Roses who follow Steps, Eagles, Rage
Against the Machine, Take That, Black Sabbath, The Beach
Boys, Culture Club, ...
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Cape May County Herald (press release)
A
few more: Paul Simon, 70, Brian Wilson (Beach
Boys), 69, Neil Diamond, 70,
Mick Jagger, 68, Eric Clapton, 66, Little Richard, 79, Jerry Lee Lewis,
...
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AFP
Iconic
US band The Beach Boys
announced in December that they expect to appear at the Grammys, ahead
of a 50th anniversary reunion tour, although they were ...
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AFP
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This Is Fake DIY
The
Up in the Air star will play Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine
McVie, who had a tortured relationship with the Beach
Boys drummer before his ...
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This
Is Fake DIY
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Exclaim! (blog)
By
this point, the Besnard Lakes are renowned for a particularly layered
sound, derived from Lasek's early reverence for vocal groups like the Beach
Boys ...
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The Province
The
amazing thing is that they finished at all; like the Beach
Boys, Eagles, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Guns N' Roses and Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen is part of ...
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The
Star-Ledger
- NJ.com
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BuzzFocus.com
...
band Fleetwood Mac and star opposite Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight)
who will play Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer/songwriter of the Beach
Boys.
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BuzzFocus.com
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AZ Central.com
...
with roots in everything from psychedelic chamber pop to Lee "Scratch"
Perry, ukulele-strumming whimsy and the Beach
Boys at their most eccentric.
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AZ
Central.com
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Fused Film
She
will star alongside Aaron Eckhart in the leading role of Beach
Boys drummer Denis Wilson.
According to Variety that movie will focus on last six years ...
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Musicrooms.net
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stv.tv
The
'Up in the Air' star will play the part of Christine McVie in the
biopic about Beach Boys
drummer Dennis Wilson, which is being directed by Randall ...
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stv.tv
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BlackBook Magazine
Instead,
Vera Farmiga will play Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac's
singer-songwriter-keyboardist, in The Drummer, an upcoming biopic about
troubled Beach Boys
...
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