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Title: Good Vibrations

Subtitle: My Life as a Beach Boy

Author: Mike Love, James S. Hirsch

Narrator: Mike Love

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-16

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 153 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history - timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations".

As a founding member of The Beach Boys, Mike Love has spent an extraordinary 55 years, and counting, as the group's lead singer and one of its principal lyricists. The Beach Boys, from their California roots to their international fame, are a unique American story - one of overnight success and age-defying longevity; of musical genius and reckless self-destruction; of spirituality, betrayal, and forgiveness - and Love is the only band member to be part of it each and every step. His own story has never been fully told, of how a sheet-metal apprentice became the quintessential front man for America's most successful rock band, singing in more than 5,600 concerts in 26 countries.

Love describes the stories behind his lyrics for pop classics such as "Good Vibrations", "California Girls", "Surfin' USA", and "Kokomo", while providing vivid portraits of the turbulent lives of his three gifted cousins, Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson. His partnership with Brian has few equals in American pop music, though Mike has carved out a legacy of his own - he co-wrote the lyrics to 11 of the 12 original Beach Boy songs that were top 10 hits while providing the lead vocals on 10 of them. The band's unprecedented durability also provides a glimpse into America's changing cultural mores over the past half century, while Love himself has experienced both the diabolical and the divine - from Charles Manson's "family" threatening his life to Maharishi instilling it with peace. A husband, a father, and an avid environmentalist, Love has written a book that is as rich and layered as the Beach Boy harmonies themselves.

Critic Reviews:

"This memoir is a marvelous listening experience.... [Mike Love's] delivery is steady, thoughtful, sincere, and occasionally emotional as well. His mellow tone, while quite slow and deliberate, is reminiscent of the idealized laid-back California lifestyle the Beach Boys sang about." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

Worthwhile for Beach Boy fans...narration awful

If you could sum up Good Vibrations in three words, what would they be?

Mike's side explained...

Who was your favorite character and why?

C'mon audible...it's an autobiography...

What didnt you like about Mike Loves performance?

I've often complained when famous people don't do the reading of their memoirs, but this book showed me why some don't.