SURF
BEST
SUMMER
EVER
HUFFINGTON
05.26.13
ENTERTAINMENT
MUSIC
The Great Surf
Music Divide
BY GAZELLE EMAMI
HE STORY GOES
that when The Beatles landed stateside
in 1964, they killed
surf music. But one, lone surf
act escaped Americans’ selective amnesia of what they had
been spinning just months be-
AP PHOTO, FILE
T
fore: They were called The Beach
Boys, and if you ask most anyone
today, chances are they’ll equate
the genre with the band.
Talk to a few surf music purists, however, and they’ll throw
you a curveball: When The
Beach Boys took over our con-
Hollywood
actors amuse
themselves
between
scenes at
California’s
Malibu Beach
in 1965.