The Beach Boys: Complex and Intricate
Keith Altham, NME, 20 May 1966
"THE BEACH Boys' ambassador in tennis shoes," as their publicist Derek Taylor so aptly describes new group member Bruce Johnston, surfed into the Waldorf Hotel in London on Monday for a week's working holiday.
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