The Beach Boys

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<strong>The Beach Boys</strong> are a <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/pop" rel="nofollow">pop</a> and <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/rock" rel="nofollow">rock</a> music group formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961, who are widely considered to be one of the most influential bands in rock and pop music history. They have recorded dozens of Top 40 hits (including four US #1 singles), many best-selling albums, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. The original group comprised singer-musician-composer <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Brian+Wilson" rel="nofollow">Brian Wilson</a>, his brothers <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Carl+Wilson" rel="nofollow">Carl Wilson</a> and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dennis+Wilson" rel="nofollow">Dennis Wilson</a>, their cousin <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Love" rel="nofollow">Mike Love</a>, friend Al Jardine, and David Marks. Many changes in both musical style and personnel have occurred in their sometimes-stormy career: <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Brian+Wilson" rel="nofollow">Brian Wilson</a>'s mental illness, drug addiction and eventual withdrawal from the group; the deaths of Dennis Wilson in 1983 and Carl Wilson in 1998; and continuing legal battles among surviving members of the group. The Beach Boys officially broke up in 1998 shortly after Carl Wilson's death, however Mike Love and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bruce+Johnston" rel="nofollow">Bruce Johnston</a> maintain the rights to the name and continue to tour with their own band as The Beach Boys.