I’m just a sound: Back to the Beach Boys↗
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Ian Penman in the LRB on Peter Doggett’s *Surf’s Up*, the latest entry in the ever-expanding Beach Boys archive. I’m currently working through David Leaf’s *God Only Knows*, which covers a lot of the same ground: the abusers and exploiters around Brian, the scarcely believable transformation from novelty pop to *Pet Sounds*, the apocryphal nature of every retelling.