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Product Details *Format: Color Dolby DVD Video Live NTSC *Language: English *Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only) *Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 *Number of discs: 1 *Rating NR *Studio: Capitol *DVD Release Date: March 14 2000 *Run Time: 141 minutes This smartly produced intelligently written documentary strikes a satisfying balance between thoughtful analysis personal history and sheer musical pleasure for a portrait of the seminal California pop band that will prove equally compelling to both knowledgeable fans and casual listeners. In the audiovisual equivalent of a loaves and fishes miracle The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony weaves 45 of the group s songs through extended interview segments with all the original members key musicians involved in their career defining recordings and astute peers and industry observers. Evocative period footage including archival film and early no budget promotional videos only add to the impact but the real achievement is the clarity and candor of this authorized project which might easily have lapsed into callow myth making and media spin control given the involvement of the surviving Beach Boys and their record label Capitol which is releasing both the documentary and a companion hits compilation. Instead these archetypal Southern Californians who transmuted their experiences growing up in suburban Hawthorne into a potent teen iconography orbiting surfing cars and girls tackle the underlying personal and cultural upheavals beneath their discography. The central dysfunctional drama of the Wilson family brothers Brian Dennis and Carl the group s nucleus and their manager father Murry is addressed early on and underlined with harrowing excerpts from session tapes capturing the hard driving abusive style of Wilson p re. Composer and acknowledged group leader Brian Wilson who long ago became a poster boy for “”troubled genius “” pop division is likewise depicted without evasion or apology as are the internal tensions between Wilson and other

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