Good Vibrations , the Beach Boys and the call vibes
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Summer Of The 60'S . First song of our summer series devoted to the hits that made the epic pop .
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For the Beach Boys , it was both the culmination and the beginning of the collapse . With Good Vibrations California group sign the worldwide success of 1966 , surpassing even the Beatles in the charts in Great Britain. And yet this song psychedelic " Pocket Opera " its creator Brian Wilson " Holy Grail of pop " according to the magazine Mojo which was voted best song of all time, will be the last great success of beach boys .
In February 1966, when records Good Vibrations begin at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, Brian Wilson , leader and songwriter , is preparing a new album , Pet Sounds probably the most successful and most mature of the career of the Beach Boys. From its 24 years , Brian has already counter ten albums in four years , and became the producer of the group with his two brothers , Carl and Dennis , their cousin Mike Love and school friend, Al Jardine. And the time when these kids roamed California in an old station wagon , dressed in their striped shirts Pendleton (which inspired them the first name of the group, Pendleton) , pills on all campuses is far away.
Dogs. Since 1961, they collected the gold discs , which Surfin'USA , I Get Around , Barbara Ann ... Better than anyone, it embodies the rich America of the 60s , when the world is a sandy beach bathed in sunshine , washed by the ocean rolls which undulate boards sturdy bronzed fellows . They sing the triumphant youth , the trips in a car on the ledges of California , surfing and flirting on the beach in the moonlight.
With Pet SoundsBrian wants to break with the music simplistic and neat feeling . The songs, especially the arrangements are more daring, more complex. Good Vibrations should appear on the album , but Brian 's obsession to make it a perfect title to push require the single release of several weeks . The idea for the song came to him a story he had told his mother about the dogs, have a sense allowing them to collect " vibration " people, especially the poor .
The beach boys - good vibrations
Brian Wilson imagines him that humans are capable of feeling good . More complicated , Brian wanted to reproduce the sounds he "In the head " and no instrument could produce . He then attacked her Good Vibrations on steroids , with the intention of putting money and time necessary to get what he wants. Eight months and 50 thousand dollars later, Wilson has recorded ninety hours of magnetic strips in five studios . He has called solo church organ , cello or even Theremin, the instrument most capricious world. Weighted with the miles of tapes, he retreats to adjust the set , trying hundreds of combinations of mixers infancy. The case is not simple , especially since Brian is deaf in one ear.
Eclipse. The drive was launched 10 October 1966 , when the hippie begins to sweep America. The success was enormous , but short-lived euphoria . The triumph Good Vibrations retracting the failure of the album Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson began to suffer from this depression , which over decades , will lead more than once into the abyss .
The following year , the Beach Boys will also protest the rising costs of American youth . These teenagers blonde , too beautiful , too healthy , no longer correspond to the America that sends its soldiers by the thousands in Vietnam get high to escape the anguish and the absurd . For the Beach Boys , this is the beginning of an eclipse which lasted until 1988 and the release of the title KokomoA marshmallow is a staggering number of sales, that nobody, not even the band, no longer expected .
Good Vibrations will also be aired tonight at midnight on RTL in the Night , presented by Jean - François Johann . Next week, Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan .
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