In Pendleton shirts and khakis, Mr. Wilson and the Beach Boys showed the world what easy Southern California living looked like. By Guy Trebay The band name was a fluke. Looking to cash in on the ...
In the 1963 hit "Surfin' USA," the Beach Boys sang, "If everybody had an ocean/ Across the U.S.A./ Then everybody'd be surfin'/ Like Californ-i-a." Brian Wilson didn't know it, but he summed up ...