The Beach Boys: Friends: The Beach Boys' Feel-good Record
Various Writers, Goldmine, 18 July 2008
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – during the summer of 1968 – Brian Wilson created a song cycle out of love and inner peace with the Friends LP... it is perhaps the group's most overlooked summer album.
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