Archives: October2004

• The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America’s Greatest Band on Stage and in the Studio

  Any Beach Boy fan knows, you gotta argue hard to make a case that the Boys ever were “America’s Greatest Band.” More like five Rodney Dangerfields in candy striped shirts. The Beach Boys got no respect; the media and their record label always found subtle ways to remind the band they were “America’s Answer to the Beatles.”