The Beach Boys timeline

The Beach Boys were a rock group from Hawthorne, California. This timeline chronicles their activities.

Recording sessions and concert performances are omitted unless historically exceptional.

Contents
Pre-1940 · 1940s · 1950s · 1960 · 1961 · 1962 · 1963 · 1964 · 1965 · 1966 · 1967 · 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s · 2010s
Notes · References

Legend

Type codes
T Event type
B Changes to band line-up/name
L Life events (including births, deaths, weddings, and divorces)
PA Performance: audition
PC Performance: concert
PR Performance: radio broadcast
PT Performance: TV broadcast
RA Record release: album
RE Record release: EP
RF Film or video release
RS Record release: single
S Recording music for record release
SR Recording music for radio broadcast
V Recording video (film, TV, video)
O Other events
Location codes
Event location L
United Kingdom UK
United States US
Other O

Pre-1940

Date T Event L
1917 Jul 02 L Murry Wilson is born in Hutchinson, Kansas.[1] US
1917 Jul 02 L Audree Neva Korthoff is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[1] US

1940s

Date T Event L
1941 Mar 13 L Michael Edward Love is born in Los Angeles, California.[1] US
1942 Jun 20 L Brian Douglas Wilson is born in Los Angeles, California.[1][2] US
1942 Jun 27 L Benjamin Baldwin (later Bruce Arthur Johnston) is born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] US
1942 Sep 03 L Alan Charles Jardine is born in Lima, Ohio.[1][3] US
1944 Dec 04 L Dennis Carl Wilson is born in Los Angeles, California.[1] US
1945 Dec 21 L Carl Dean Wilson is born in Los Angeles, California.[1] US
1948 Aug 22 L David Lee Marks is born in Erie, Pennsylvania.[4] US

1950s

Date T Event L
1958 Jun 20 O Brian's 16th birthday. He is given a Wollensak tape recorder.[1] US

1960

Date T Event L
1960 PC Brian, Carl, Mike, and friends begin performing at school assemblies under the name Carl & the Passions.[1] US

1961

Date T Event L
1961 Jun B Jardine suggests forming a group with Brian, while Brian keeps in mind the inclusion of Carl and Mike.[5] US
1961 Nov RS "Surfin'" / "Luau" released on Candix.[5] US

1962

Date T Event L
1962 Jan O Brian meets and begins a songwriting partnership with Gary Usher.[4] US
1962 Feb B Jardine resigns from the band and is replaced by David Marks.[4] US
1962 Apr 19 S Brian and Usher record four songs (later credited to Kenny & the Cadets) which will lead to a Capitol contract.[4] US
1962 Jun RS "Surfin' Safari" / "409" released.[4] US
1962 Sep O Brian receives his first ever production credit with the release of "The Revo-Lution" / "Number One" by Rachel and the Revolvers.[4] US
1962 Oct 01 RA Surfin' Safari released.[6] US

1963

Date T Event L
1963 Sep PC The Beach Boys play their first non-California show in Arizona.[7] US
1963 Mar 25 RA Surfin' U.S.A. released.[6] US
1963 Apr RA Surfin' Safari released.[6] US
1963 May B At Brian's request, Al Jardine returns to the band as a semi-permanent member. In the studio, the band are now a 6-piece; on stage, Jardine only acts as a replacement for Brian when he declines live performances.[7] US
1963 Aug O The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" released. US
1963 Sep 16 RA Surfer Girl released.[6] US
1963 Oct 07 RA Little Deuce Coupe released.[6] US

1964

Date T Event L
1964 Feb 03 RS "Fun, Fun, Fun" / "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" released. US
1964 Feb 07 O The Beatles arrive in the United States. US
1964 Mar 02 RA Shut Down Volume 2 released.[6] US
1964 Apr 02 O Murry Wilson is fired as the band's manager.[8] US
1964 May 11 RS "I Get Around" / "Don't Worry Baby" released. US
1964 Jun 13 RA All Summer Long released.[6] US
1964 Aug 24 RS "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)" / "She Knows Me Too Well" released. US
1964 Sep 21 RE Four by The Beach Boys released. US
1964 Sep 31 RA The Beach Boys' Christmas Album released.[6] US
1964 Oct 19 RA Beach Boys Concert released. US
1964 Oct 26 RS "Dance, Dance, Dance" / "The Warmth of the Sun" released. US
1964 Oct 29 V The Beach Boys, with Brian, perform for The T.A.M.I. Show.[9] US
1964 Nov RF The T.A.M.I. Show released in theaters.[9] US
1964 Nov 09 RS "The Man with All the Toys" / "Blue Christmas" released. US
1964 Dec 07 L Brian Wilson marries Marilyn Rovell.[8] US
1964 Dec 23 PT The Beach Boys, with Brian, perform on Shindig!.[10] US
1964 Dec 23 O Brian suffers a panic attack while on a flight from Los Angeles to Houston.[10] US
1964 Dec B Glen Campbell is quickly brought in to replace Brian as a touring member.[8] US

1965

Date T Event L
1965 Jan B Brian announces to the group that he will resign from touring indefinitely.[11] US
1965 Feb 15 RS "Do You Wanna Dance?" / "Please Let Me Wonder" released. US
1965 Mar 08 RA The Beach Boys Today! released.[6] US
1965 O Brian experiences his first acid trip in the spring.[11] US
1965 Apr RA Surfer Girl released.[6] UK
1965 Apr B Bruce Johnston replaces Glen Campbell as both a studio and touring member.[11] US
1965 Apr 05 RS "Help Me, Rhonda" / "Kiss Me, Baby" released. US
1965 Jun S Brian begins work on "Sloop John B". US
1965 Jun O Brian meets Van Dyke Parks; the two listen to a playback of "Sloop John B". US
1965 Jul 05 RA Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) released.[6] US
1965 Jul 12 RS "California Girls" / "Let Him Run Wild" released. US
1965 Aug RA Surfin' U.S.A. released.[6] UK
1965 Sep 08 RA Beach Boys' Party! released.[6] US
1965 Nov 22 RS "The Little Girl I Once Knew" / "There's No Other (Like My Baby)" released. US
1965 Dec O Brian contacts Tony Asher about a possible lyric collaboration.[11] US
1965 Dec 06 O The Beatles' Rubber Soul released. US
1965 Dec 20 RS "Barbara Ann" / "Girl Don't Tell Me" released. US

1966

Date T Event L
1966 O Ex-Beatles publicist Derek Taylor is employed by the band in the spring.[12] US
1966 Feb O Brian and Parks meet again at a lawn party thrown by Terry Melcher.[12] US
1966 Feb 03 L Carl Wilson marries Annie Hinsche.[12] US
1966 Feb 17 S Brian begins work on "Good Vibrations". US
1966 May 11 S Brian begins work on "Heroes and Villains". US
1966 May 16 RA Pet Sounds released.[6] US
1966 Jun 27 RA Pet Sounds released.[6] UK
1966 Sep 21 S "Good Vibrations" completed. US
1966 Oct 10 RS "Good Vibrations" / "Let's Go Away for Awhile" released. US
1966 Nov 28 S Brian begins work on "The Elements: Fire". He is later disturbed that several fires have broke out in the Los Angeles area; the Smile project begins to unravel.[12] US
1966 Dec V Brian performs "Surf's Up" at his home for the CBS documentary Inside Pop.[12] US
1966 Dec O The Beach Boys are voted in a readers' poll conducted by NME as the number one vocal group in the world, ahead of the Beatles with 5,373 votes to 5,272.[12] UK

1967

Date T Event L
1967 Jan 03 O Carl Wilson begins his draft battle, claiming conscientious objector status.[12] US
1967 Jan 15 O Brian misses the Smile deadline he set for Capitol.[12] US
1967 Feb 28 O The Beach Boys sue Capitol Records for unpaid back royalties and $225,000 for an outdated breakages clause.[12] US
1967 Apr O Brian is appointed as a board member for the projected Monterey Pop Festival in June.[12] US
1967 Apr 14 S Van Dyke Parks' final Smile session.[13] US
1967 Apr 26 PT Inside Pop airs on CBS with Brian's performance from December.[14] US
1967 May 02 O Derek Taylor announces that Smile has been cancelled.[12] UK
1967 May RS "Then I Kissed Her" / "Mountain of Love" released. US
1967 May 18 S The Smile era ends with the final session date for "Love to Say Dada". US
1967 May 27 S The Beach Boys migrate to Brian's home studio and begin recording Smiley Smile. US
1967 Jun 03 O Brian declares to the Beach Boys that most of the Smile material is now distinctly off-limits.[15] US
1967 Jun O The Beach Boys announce that they will not be performing at the Monterey Pop Festival.[12] US
1967 Jul 25 O Capitol executive Karl Engemann circulates a memo discussing a 10-track Smile album to follow Smiley Smile. US
1967 Jul 30 RS "Heroes and Villains" / "You're Welcome" released. US
1967 Aug O The Beach Boys, with Brian and without Johnston, travel to Hawaii to record a live album, Lei'd in Hawaii.[12] US
1967 Aug 25 PC The Beach Boys' first Lei'd in Hawaii date with Brian. US
1967 Aug 26 PC The Beach Boys' second Lei'd in Hawaii date with Brian. US
1967 Sep 11 S The Beach Boys attempt to record Lei'd in Hawaii as a live-in-the-studio album at Wally Heider Studios. US
1967 Sep 18 RA Smiley Smile released.[6] US
1967 Oct 23 RS "Wild Honey" / "Wind Chimes" released. US
1967 Dec 15 O The Beach Boys, without Brian, meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Paris. O
1967 Dec 18 RA Wild Honey released.[6] US
1967 Dec 18 RS "Darlin'" / "Here Today" released. US
1967 Dec O Jann Wenner writes an influential piece in Rolling Stone that derides the Beach Boys for Wild Honey and excludes them from "serious conversation".[12] US

1968

Date T Event L
1968 O Brian admits himself into a psychiatric hospital.[16][17] US
1968 Jun 24 RA Friends released.[6] US
1968 Aug 19 RA Stack-O-Tracks released.[6] US

1969

Date T Event L
1969 Feb 20 RA 20/20 released.[6] US

1970

Date T Event L
1970 Aug 31 RA Sunflower released.[6] US

1971

Date T Event L
1971 Aug 30 RA Surf's Up released.[6] US

1972

Date T Event L
1972 Mar 15 RA Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" released.[6] US

1973

Date T Event L
1973 Jan 08 RA Holland released.[6] US

1974

Date T Event L
1974 Dec 23 RS "Child of Winter (Christmas Song)" / "Susie Cincinnati" released. Brian is credited as producer, his first for the Beach Boys in seven years.[18] US

1975

Date T Event L
1975 Aug S Brian produces "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" for California Music.[19] US
1975 Oct O Eugene Landy is employed as a psychotherapist for Brian.[19] US

1976

Date T Event L
1976 Jul 05 RA 15 Big Ones released.[6] US
1976 Dec O Landy is fired.[20] US

1977

Date T Event L
1977 Apr 11 RA Love You released.[21] US

1978

Date T Event L
1978 Jun 28 L Dennis Wilson remarries Karen Lamm.[22] US
1978 Jul 04 L Carl and Annie Wilson separate.[22] US
1978 Jul 12 L Dennis files for divorce from Karen Wilson.[22] US
1978 Jul 15 L Brian and Marilyn Wilson separate.[22] US
1978 O Brian is hospitalized for several months.[22] US
1978 Oct 2 RA M.I.U. Album released.[22] US

1979

Date T Event L
1979 Jan L Brian and Marilyn finalize their divorce.[23] US
1979 Mar 19 RA L.A. (Light Album) released.[23] US

1980s

Date T Event L
1980 Mar 24 RA Keepin' the Summer Alive released.[24] US
1981 Jan O Dennis Wilson is violently beaten at his home by Stan Love and Rocky Pamplin in hopes that he will stop supplying Brian with drugs.[25] US
1982 Jan L Gage Dennis Wilson is born to Dennis Wilson and Shawn Love.[26] US
1982 Dec O The Beach Boys deceive Brian to get him back under the care of Eugene Landy.[26] US
1983 Jan 02 O Brian is admitted to a hospital for a two-week-long physical and subsequently embarks with Landy to Honolulu, Hawaii.[27] US
1983 Jul 28 L Dennis Wilson marries Shawn Love.[27] US
1983 Dec 28 L Dennis drowns in California.[27] US
1985 Jun 10 RA The Beach Boys released.[28] US
1989 Aug 28 RA Still Cruisin' released.[29] US

1990s

Date T Event L
1992 Aug 03 RA Summer in Paradise released.[30] US
1998 Feb 06 L Carl Wilson dies of lung and brain cancer.[31] US
1996 Aug 19 RA Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 released.[32] US

2000s

Date T Event L
2004 Feb 20 PC Brian debuts Brian Wilson Presents Smile at the Royal Festival Hall in London.[33] UK

2010s

Date T Event L
2012 Jun 05 RA That's Why God Made the Radio released. US

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Doe, pp. 1917–1960.
  2. ↑ Badman 2004, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Badman 2004, p. 14.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Doe, p. 1962.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Doe, p. 1961.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 Badman 2004, p. 380.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Doe, p. 1963.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Doe, p. 1964.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sanchez 2014, pp. 30–31.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Sanchez 2014, pp. 63–64.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Doe, p. 1965.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 Doe, p. 1967.
  13. ↑ Hoskyns 2009, p. 131.
  14. ↑ Doe, pp. 1966–1967.
  15. ↑ Badman 2004, p. 188.
  16. ↑ Doe, p. 1968.
  17. ↑ Carlin 2006, p. 140.
  18. ↑ Doe, p. 1974.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Doe, p. 1975.
  20. ↑ Doe, p. 1976.
  21. ↑ Badman 2004, p. 381.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 Doe, p. 1978.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Doe, p. 1979.
  24. ↑ Doe, p. 1980.
  25. ↑ Doe, p. 1981.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Doe, p. 1982.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Doe, p. 1983.
  28. ↑ Doe, p. 1985.
  29. ↑ Doe, p. 1989.
  30. ↑ Doe, p. 1992.
  31. ↑ Badman 2004, p. 376.
  32. ↑ Doe, p. 1996.
  33. ↑ Badman 2004, p. 378.

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