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Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius

by Philip Lambert

Continuum

March 2007, 416 pages, $26.95

by Adam Bunch

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It's the ultimate in the band A = band B + band C style of music criticism, and it grows old quickly.

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