The Beach Boys Dean Anthony First Published: HB. 1985. Crescent Books, New York. This Edition: First Edition Crescent Books’ The Beach Boys has the outward appearance of a children’s annual and the journalistic substance of the back of a baseball card. It took me a long time to track down a copy of this slim tome, since very few copies seem to have washed up on the shores of England despite our fairly fervent appetite for the group. That said there are always scores of copies to be under for under $5 on eBay in the US, albeit with eye-watering international postage. Finally getting my hands on a copy could only really ever result in disappointment. To be fair, I knew this was a light book, and although the text is brief, I did expect a bit more of it. Dean Anthony provides a brisk narrative taking us from the group’s early formation through to 1985 and rumours of the band’s imminent return with what would be their self-titled album. Anthony barely scratches the surface and there is
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