Beach Boys are formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, in the suburbs of Los Angeles in California. The group joins together the three brothers Wilson - Brian, Carl and Dennis - their cousin Mike Love and their neighbor Al Jardine.
Inspired by the surf that Dennis often practise, and taking benfits from the vagueness of surfing music becoming a musical phenomenon, Brian Wilson and Mike Love write the first title of the group : “Surfin’”. The style is inspired by rock and roll and doo-wop and the music is very simple. The brothers’ Wilson’s father, Murray, invests himself in the group as a manager. Surfin’ leaves in 45 turns in December 1961.

Consequently, the Beach Boys’ albums will know a great success in the contry : it is the single “I get around” which will be the most well-knwown, reaching the first place in the United States, and also reaching to enter the English Top Ten. It is however thanks to “Pet Sounds” that the English musical press will indicate the Beach Boys as the group of the year 1966.