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Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! In 1966, Brian Wilson entered the studio to compose Smile, a Beach Boys album that he believed would change the band, and perhaps the face of popular music, forever. What happened next became legend. By Jules Siegel
Nov 3, 2011 · Music. Goodbye Surfing, Hello God: Brian Wilson’s Tortured Effort to Finish ‘Smile’. In this excerpt from a 1967 story in 'Cheetah' magazine, Wilson tries to show the Beach Boys are...
This is from Jules Siegel’s Cheetah Magazine essay titled “Goodbye Surfing, Hello God.” I have it in Byron Preiss’ 1979 authorized biography, The Beach Boys: At home, as the black acetate dub turned on his bedroom hi-fi set, Wilson tried to explain the words. “It’s a man at a concert,” he said.
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Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! by The Beach Boys released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Then came a text published by Jules Siegel in Cheetah magazine entitled “Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!”, itself starting the almost endless series of articles and books on the subject. While some of the tracks that slowly started to trickle out onto the subsequent Beach Boys albums were in a finished form (“Cabinessence” on 20/20 ), they ...
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