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| | The Beach Boys Smile |
 | | While the Beach Boys started out as a Fun In The Sun group, celebrating the joys of cars, girls and surfing, they like the Beatles were also in the process of growing up, outgrowing their adolescence and finding new maturity in their music. |
 | | Dumb Angel, an album which would unleash the powers of humor and laughter, reflecting his beliefs of the time in vegetarianism and health food (he had a small store in Los Angeles which sold health food and supplies), as well as the Zen principles he was exploring, partly with the aid of psychedelic drugs. |
 | | It was a simple album, pared down to production basics, a retro-rock album that led the way for the Beatles, Bob Dylan and others to do their own return-to-basics recordings. |
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