The Beach Boys: 15 Big Ones
Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 3 July 1976
THE FIRST new Beach Boys studio album in three years. Fifteen big ones celebrating 15 years of Beach Boys on their 23rd album (not counting reissues and greatest hits). About the only thing missing to make it the perfect Bicentennial biscuit is the fabled Brian Wilson tampered 'Battle Hymn of The Republic' which Beach Boys associates have trumpeted for the last two years as proof positive that the sandbox genius was back among us.
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