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Mr. Wilson hated rock — but he loved the Beach Boys

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 August 1964

THE NOISE the Beach Boys make is a wail with a touch of adenoid; the songs, they sing are about surfing and cars. What with wailing, surfing and motoring, they have made a packet in America during the past two years.

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