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Surfin' Death Valley USA

David Toop, Collusion, February 1982

"WE'LL GET THE ROUGHEST AND THE TOUGHEST INITIATION WE CAN FIND"
from Our Car Club (Brian Wilson/Mile Love) Beach Boys, 1963

What were the connections between Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, mass murderer Charles Manson and occult film-maker Kenneth Anger? David Toop investigates California Babylon.

Total word count of piece: 1842

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