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The Beach Boys: Stepping Out Of The Surf

Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 14 December 1974

LOS ANGELES; "Last week in Vancouver we sold out the Canadian National Exhibition Hall twice. We had 17,500 for each show and over 5,000 additional fans had to be turned away. We broke the Beatles' record set in 1964," Mike Love said in his Santa Barbara home (100 miles north of Los Angeles.)

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