Keeping the Beach Boys Alive
Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, 4 August 2000
THERE ARE SOME really good reasons to loathe Mike Love's Beach Boys. There is the authenticity problem: there is no one named Wilson onstage, and Love is the only founding member present.
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