It was not the only song banned by the trigger-happy bosses at the Beeb who also pulled the plug on I Am The Walrus and Lucy In The Sky With Diamond which they said were both inspired by LSD use.

I did feel that the day was going to come eventually, but it’s not a song I ever wanted to sing,” Julian Lennon told me in ...

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Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...

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Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired Good Vibrations, California Girls and other summertime anthems ...

By the mid-1960s, the Beach Boys were being held up as the country’s answer to the Beatles, a friendly game embraced by each group, transporting pop music to the level of “art” and ... after ...