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    Q&A

    Jul 15, 2021 3 minutes
    INTERVIEW: ROB HUGHES

    How were things in The Beach Boys’ camp during the late ’60s?

    AL JARDINE: It was difficult being a Beach Boy in the years after the assassination of Martin Luther King. Tough, really tough. And of course there was increasing negativity with the Vietnam War. It wasn’t very cool to be a Beach Boy, it wasn’t “Fun Fun Fun” any more. So we were hitting a big wall of change. Things were definitely moving quite rapidly and we were just on the edge of it.

    How did the band deal

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