{"id":61976,"date":"2025-07-13T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61976\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:16:15","slug":"on-this-day-in-1965-the-beach-boys-released-an-all-time-classic-created-during-brian-wilsons-first-acid-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61976\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in 1965, the Beach Boys Released an All-Time Classic Created During Brian Wilson\u2019s First Acid Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undoubtedly, The Beach Boys changed music forever when the original lineup of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine formed in 1961. Thanks to Brian Wilson\u2019s innovative songwriting techniques (like transforming his dining room <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/the-method-songwriting-technique-brian-wilson-used-to-capture-the-essence-of-his-beachy-surf-pop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">into a giant sandbo<\/a>x), the band perfectly bottled that California beach sound. On this day in 1965, Wilson\u2019s first LSD trip became one of the band\u2019s biggest hits.<\/p>\n<p>            Brian Wilson Dreamed Up This Beach Boys Song The First Time He Took LSD<\/p>\n<p>High on LSD for the first time, Brian Wilson walked down to the piano in his Hollywood apartment and began to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thinking about the music from cowboy movies. And I sat down and started playing it, bum-buhdeeda, bum-buhdeeda,\u201d Wilson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-ca-socalsong12aug12-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a> in 2007. \u201cI did that for about an hour. I got these chords going. Then I got this melody, it came pretty fast after that. And the rest was history, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That history became \u201cCalifornia Girls,\u201d released July 12, 1965, as part of The Beach Boys\u2019 ninth studio album, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) Reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, it\u2019s easily one of their most recognizable songs six decades later.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2004 interview, Wilson declared the song\u2019s intro \u201cthe greatest piece of music I\u2019ve ever written.\u201d He had mixed feelings about the res of the song, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I could, I\u2019d re-record that one,\u201d he said in 1970. \u201cWe rushed the beat on that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, he called \u201cCalifornia Girls\u201d the band\u2019s finest record. \u201cYou could call it our anthem,\u201d Wilson told Mark Dillon in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/paul-mccartneys-favorite-beach-boys-song-faced-a-radio-ban-and-a-title-change-over-just-one-word\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[RELATED: Paul McCartney\u2019s Favorite Beach Boys Song Faced a Radio Ban (And a Title Change) Over Just One Word]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That Time The Beatles Parodied \u201cCalifornia Girls\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rising to fame at the same time, The Beach Boys had a bit of a friendly rival with The Beatles. In fact, the Fab Four even parodied \u201cCalifornia Girls\u201d in 1968\u2019s \u201cBack in the U.S.S.R.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just liked the idea of\u00a0Georgia\u00a0girls and talking about places like\u00a0the Ukraine\u00a0as if they were California, you know?\u201d Paul McCartney told Playboy in 1984. \u201cIt was also hands across the water, which I\u2019m still conscious of. \u2018Cause they like us out there [in Soviet Russia], even though the bosses in the\u00a0Kremlin\u00a0may not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Featured image by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undoubtedly, The Beach Boys changed music forever when the original lineup of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[995,171,975,4006,4185,996,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-61976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-brian-wilson","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-pop-music","12":"tag-rock-music","13":"tag-the-beach-boys","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114845409819927250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}