MU121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Beach Boys, Surf Music, The Yardbirds
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Brian wilson wants to sound like phil spector. Wilson hired the wrecking group to play for them. Most popular recordings of beach boys weren"t even them playing. Hired musicians, recorded it, band learned songs and went on tour. Then beatles get on ed sullivan in 1964 and eclipse them. Ed sullivan beatles show watched in 23 million households. In image, rolling stones had longer hair, mismatched clothes. Beatles sang stuff like i wanna hold your hands and rolling stones sing more about rock and has sexual underlining in lyrics. Beatles always songwriters, stones turn into songwriters later on. Mersey (mersey is river that goes through liverpool) beat. Eric claptop leaves because band becomes too poppy. Bands like yardbirds and blues breakers become schools that blues artists emerge from. Stones-bands were trying to imitate black american blues. British blues covers were not sanitized country versions like america"s.
