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Here’s the good stuff! Poor quality snippets of Macca’s demo of Step Inside Love have been circulating for years, but here’s a full version from a BBC editor who was lent an acetate which he copied to a quarter inch tape. In 1968 Paul could do no wrong! youtu.be/tO3vnIWDa3g?...

8mm film of one of Brian's last pre-Landy (second time) Beach Boys gigs, September 1982 in Allentown, PA

The classic, circa 1981. Brian Wilson vs. Santa Claus

"O Holy Night", 2018, Blondie Chaplin with Brian and Al.

Brian Wilson, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", 2005

Dennis Wilson & The Beach Boys, "Morning Christmas", 1977

Al and Brian with "Winter Symphony" from 2018:

Little Saint Nick, Shindig

My younger brother Grant has been going through a lot this past year. His fiance Tiffany was diagnosed with the terminal illness, Famular ALS. She has been moved around between so many facilities for care as the disease has progressed. It would be amazing if she could be home. gofund.me/985dd663

Al Jardine, circa 2009 at his Red Barn Studios with "Christmas Day" and "Little Saint Nick":

Brian Wilson, 2005, Little Saint Nick

Yes, Funko Pops are basic. But the world needs an Al Jardine figure now more than ever, and now I have one in my hands....

We all have examples, and here's mine for why Twitter is a place you never need to be:

It's probably best to watch this as blurry as possible, so the 240p resolution I think really helps...

That time they re-used a 1982 publicity photo in 1984, had to remove Dennis, but left a creepy extra hand in the photo:

The last publicity photo of the full lineup, Summer-Fall 1983

For Friday, here's The Beach Boys on "Friday's" in 1980 performing "Goin' On":

Another bummer, Andy Paley has died. Wrote and recorded some great stuff with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. variety.com/2024/music/n...

Going a little dark here with some deep cut Beach Boys......

Bless whomever scanned the entirety of "Baywatch" in full HD so that we could get this screencap in decent quality. Brian Wilson reacting to Mike, and his song "Summer of Love", and being on Baywatch, and doing all of that with John Stamos.

Yeah, yeah, Al, sure, I won't fight the sea, I promise.

Is this Mike Love, or Rich Evans from Red Letter Media? You make the call.

The only Twitter exchange that ever needs to be preserved, from 2015:

Brian Wilson as Detective Harvey Bullock, 1979

I've seen it, so you have to too. Mike Love in a hot tub circa 1980.

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