The Beach Boys, going into the sunset, look back on years of harmony and heartache in documentary
The Beach Boys are looking back on a life of sunshine and sorrow in a new Disney+ documentary
Both the Beach Boys and “The Beach Boys” — the new documentary dropping Friday on Disney+ — are all about blending a range of voices.
The three Wilson brothers — Brian, Carl and Dennis — along with cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, brought a harmonic revolution to group vocals with their Southern California sound that brightened the 1960s with songs like “I Get Around,” “Good Vibrations” and “God Only Knows.”
In his documentary on them, director Frank Marshall took oft-told tales of the band's six decades of heartache and harmony, and tried to make them broader, and brighter, by mixing as many voices as possible.
“It was the blend of everything,” Marshall told The Associated Press in a joint interview with Love and Jardine in a Hollywood recording studio. “It’s the blend not only of the family story, but the blend of the harmonies. If you took one element out, you wouldn’t have the Beach Boys.”
