The Beach Boys: A Biography in Words & Pictures
(Ken Barnes)
Publishing Year: 1976
Published by: Sire Books-Chappell Music Company
Pages: 56
The Beach Boys:
Southern California Pastoral (Bruce Golden)
Publishing Year: 1976
Published by: The Borgo Press
Pages: 59
The Beach Boys (John Tobler)
Publishing Year: 1978
Published by: Phoebus Publishing Company
Pages: 96
The Beach Boys and the California Myth (David Leaf)
Publishing Year: 1978 Revised: 1985
Published by: Courage Books
Pages: 208
The Beach Boys: The Authorized Biography of America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band (Byron Preiss)
Publishing Year: 1979
Published by: St. Martin's Press
Pages: 96
Surf's Up! The Beach
Boys On Record 1961-1981 (Brad Elliott)
Publishing Year: 1984
Revised: 1991
Published by: Popular Culture, Inc.
Pages: 495
The Beach Boys Silver Anniversary (John Milward)
Publishing Year: 1985
Published by: Dolphin/Doubleday
Pages: 240
The Beach Boys (Dean
Anthony)
Publishing Year: 1985
Published by: Crescent Books
Pages: 64
Heroes & Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys (Steven Gaines)
Publishing Year: 1986
Published by: Dutton/Signet
Publishing Year: 1995
Published by: Da Capo Press
Pages: 374
Look! Listen! Vibrate!
SMILE! (Domenic Priore)
Publishing Year: 1988
Revised: 1995
Published by: Small Press Distribution
Pages: 264
Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story (Brian Wilson with
Todd Gold)
Publishing Year: 1991
Published by: Harper Collins
Pages: 398
Denny Remembered:
Dennis Wilson in Words and Pictures (Edward Wincentsen)
Publishing Year: 1991
Published by: Vergin Press
Pages: 197
The Wilson Project (Stephen J. McParland)
Publishing Year: 1991
Published by: PTB Productions
Pages: 142
The Nearest Faraway
Place: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California
Experience (Timothy White)
Publishing Year: 1994
Published by: Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 416
The Beach Boys:
In Their Own Words (Nick Wise)
Publishing Year: 1994
Published by: Omnibus Press
Pages: 112
How Deep Is The
Ocean? (Paul Williams)
Publishing Year: 1997
Published by: Omnibus Press
Pages: 240
Brian Wilson and
the Beach Boys: The Complete Guide to their Music (Doe & John
Tobler)
Publishing Year: 1997
Revised: 2004
Published by: Omnibus Press
Pages: 160 (Rev.: 96)
Back To The Beach:
a Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys Reader (Kingsley Abbott)
Publishing Year: 1998
Published by: Helter Skelter Publishing
Pages: 254
Add Some Music To
Your Day: Analyzing and Enjoying the Music of The Beach Boys
(Don Cunningham and Jeff Bleiel)
Publishing Year: 1999
Published by: Tiny Ripple Publishing
Pages: 200
Smile, Sun, Sand
& Pet Sounds (Stephen J. McParland)
Publishing Year: 1999
Published by: California Music
Pages: 108
The Beach Boys: A Biography in Words &
Pictures (Ken Barnes)
While obviously dated, this is a good critical overview
of the Beach Boys, as of its time, by one of rock's most
thorough researchers and best (sadly under-published) writers.
Includes discography.
