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By: Mark Dillon and Phil Miglioratti
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 A podcast about America's band hosted by Mark Dillon, author of Fifty Sides of The Beach Boys, and Phil Miglioratti, host of the Pray for Surf blog.All rights reserved Music
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  • David Leaf Remembers Brian and Talks SMiLE

    David Leaf Remembers Brian and Talks SMiLE
    Aug 6 2025
    Days after Brian Wilson passed away - and on his birthday - his biographer and good friend David Leaf returned for part one of a special two-part episode. David shares his recollections of Brian's challenging recent years. It's group therapy for David and hosts Mark and Phil, as they discuss how Brian made the world a better place, stepping out of The Beatles' shadow, did the obits really "get" Brian, more insight into why SMiLE was shelved, and they ask, "Did Brian's ambitions really die with SMiLE?" Of course, we also talk to David about his great new book on the saga of that legendary album.
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    59 mins
  • SMiLE vs. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    SMiLE vs. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    Jun 23 2024
    In this special snackable episode, Mark compares The Beach Boys' 1967 SMiLE album with The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A year earlier the bands came out, respectively, with the classic Pet Sounds and Revolver LPs, and it was The Beach Boys who were favored in NME's year-end poll. If SMiLE had come out during the Summer of Love, how would it have fared? Mark weighs the two albums track by track, and in terms of cultural impact and overall artistic impression. These records are considered by many to be both bands' ultimate production statements - which one will come out on top? (This mini-episode is a longer version of a clip Mark recorded for the Apples & Oranges Podcast.)
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    13 mins
  • Howie Edelson on "The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys"

    Howie Edelson on "The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys"
    Apr 5 2024
    Howie Edelson, Beach Boys' creative consultant and catalog producer, returns to talk up this new oral history of the group to which he contributed interviews and new text. But that's just the launch point: we also get an update on Brian Wilson, and discuss the contributions of Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin, the many mysteries of Murry Wilson, we reveal the TRUE identity of Reggie Dunbar, pit "The Trader" vs. "Catch a Wave", and talk about the love the guys have had for one another despite it all. Howie also teases what might be the next box set!
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    1 hr and 20 mins
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