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<p>Brian Wilson (right) while recording The Beach Boys album ‘Pet Sounds’ in 1966 in Los Angeles, California</p>
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The record label wanted another ‘California Girls’. The Beach Boys gave them a song that changed the world

Amid political unrest and label pressure, Brian Wilson became consumed by his ambition to create a song that distilled a feeling of pure positivity, leading to what was, at the time, the most expensive single ever recorded. Sixty years since its inception, Mike Love and biographer Peter Doggett speak to Mark Beaumont about the making of ‘Good Vibrations’

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