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Wie ich finde: einer der interessantesten Titel der Popmusik-Geschichte; - nicht musikalisch, rein titelmäßig!
[Für nicht Beach-Boys-Brian-Wilson-Interessierte: Es folgen Interna! --> also eher unten das schöne Video zu Jan&Dean ansehen ...]

Stichwort ist erstmal: Book Review (New York Times _ Books of The Times. By JANET MASLIN AUG. 29, 2016):

In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling

This fall will bring a gold rush of books by and about musicians, with Bruce Springsteen’s memoir as the big kahuna. But the ripe Americana of surf music will be well represented too, as it was in the superb indie film “Love and Mercy.” Mr. Love’s book ranks high in gossip and readability, even if it’s stuffed with tedious chart positions for Beach Boys records. Brian Wilson has “I Am Brian Wilson” coming out in October. (Mr. Wilson, with his brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mr. Love and their friend Al Jardine, constitute the core group of Beach Boys; there have been many personnel changes.)

Dean Torrence’s “Surf City: The Jan & Dean Story” arrives next week. And last year “Long Promised Road,” a full biography of the enormously talented and most overlooked Wilson brother, Carl, was published. Mr. Love goes out of his way to diss Carl and ignore his contributions to the group, both musical and diplomatic, whenever he can.

But his biggest beef is with Brian Wilson, who has been called a genius for most of Mr. Love’s lifetime. In “Good Vibrations,” Mr. Love would like to correct that impression, although in a peace-loving, roundabout way. Though he writes, “I’ve never been competitive with Brian,” he also tosses in zingers like, “I’m a Pisces, and Brian, a Gemini; and it is said that a Pisces writes out of inspiration while a Gemini writes out of desperation.” The biggest bone of contention in the book is Mr. Love’s claim that he wrote many of the lyrics credited to Mr. Wilson and was knowingly cheated out of credit and royalties by him and by Murry Wilson, the Wilson boys’ famously abusive father.

Mr. Love, who cherry picks his facts carefully, devotes a lot of space to a lawsuit he filed, seeking to regain the credit and money he lost. He leaves out a later, more specious suit he brought in 2005, just as he is very careful to give only a fleeting, cautiously worded mention of his political affiliations. He is above that sort of thing, he maintains — any savvy performer knows that partisanship is bad for business — and would gladly perform for non-Republican presidents if they ever invited him. His personal views don’t matter. His dodginess, here and throughout the book, does....

Simple Definition of dodgy
: false or dishonest
: causing a lack of trust or confidence ...



Dennis hat das übrigens früh erkannt:

Via the fevered imagination of exilestreet: As if we needed another reason to despise Mike Love

Und jetzt endlich: The Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review And Timing Association


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