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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys: American rock band founded in Hawthorne, California, in 1961 by Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine; Capitol Records signees, over 100 million records sold, Pet Sounds (1966), Rock Hall 1988.

The Beach Boys (album)

The Beach Boys (1985) is the band's self-titled studio album on Caribou Records, produced by Steve Levine, their first digital recording, with the Top 40 single "Getcha Back."

The Beach Boys discography

The Beach Boys discography: the American band's recorded catalog from Surfin' Safari (1962) through That's Why God Made the Radio (2012), including Pet Sounds, over 100 million records sold, and 36 US Top 40 hits.

The Beach Boys Love You

The Beach Boys Love You (1977, Brother/Reprise) is a Beach Boys album written and produced solely by Brian Wilson after being planned as his solo record Brian Loves You; a Moog-driven flop at No. 53 US that became a cult favorite, followed by the shelved Adult/Child.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys Today! is the Beach Boys' eighth studio album, released March 8, 1965 on Capitol. First album after Brian Wilson stopped touring; split into a pop Side 1 and ballad Side 2, it paved the way to Pet Sounds.

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album is a 1964 holiday collection by the American band The Beach Boys. It peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Christmas Album chart.

The Beaches (band)

The Beaches are a Toronto rock band (Jordan and Kylie Miller, Leandra Earl, Eliza Enman-McDaniel) formed in 2013 from Done with Dolls; known for Blame My Ex (2023), the viral single Blame Brett, and 2024 Juno wins.

The Beat (British band)

The Beat (British band), aka the English Beat in the US, formed in Birmingham in 1978; a multiracial 2 Tone ska act with Wakeling, Ranking Roger, and Saxa, known for "Tears of a Clown" and "Mirror in the Bathroom", distinct from Paul Collins' American Beat.

The Beatles

The Beatles: English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starr), also called the Fab Four; the most commercially successful band in pop history, disbanded 1970, with 600 million albums sold and 190 of 210 songs recorded at Abbey Road Studios.

The Beatles (album)

The Beatles, known as the White Album, is the Beatles' 30-track double album released 22 November 1968 on Apple, recorded at Abbey Road May–October 1968 after Rishikesh songwriting, first Apple-label album, 19-times platinum in the US.

The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl

The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (1977) is the band's only official live album, compiled from 1964 and 1965 concerts, recorded on three-track tape, remixed in 2016 as Live At The Hollywood Bowl.

The Beatles in Hamburg

The Beatles in Hamburg: club residencies, August 1960 to December 1962, at the Indra, Kaiserkeller, Top Ten Club, and Star-Club; 281 concerts, 1,200 stage hours, five trips, deportations, Tony Sheridan recordings, and Ringo Starr's arrival.

The Beatles in India

The Beatles in India: the band's February 1968 stay at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Rishikesh ashram for Transcendental Meditation, where they wrote much of the White Album before leaving at different times.

The Beatles singles discography

The Beatles singles discography covers the band's 22 UK singles from "Love Me Do" (1962) to "The Long and Winding Road" (1970), most kept off their albums, plus their tangled US releases on Vee-Jay, Swan, and Capitol and 18 UK Number 1s.

The Beatles' Christmas records

The Beatles' Christmas records: seven annual fan-club flexi discs, 1963–1969, with skits, carols, and messages; compiled on 1970's From Then to You and officially reissued in the 2017 Christmas Records box set.

The Beatles' rooftop concert

The Beatles' rooftop concert, 30 January 1969 on the Apple Corps roof at 3 Savile Row, London, was the band's final public performance: 42 minutes with Billy Preston, ended by police, filmed for Let It Be and Get Back.

The Beatles' Second Album

The Beatles' Second Album is a Capitol Records US compilation released April 10, 1964 (T 2080/ST 2080), the third Beatles LP issued in America. Its 11 tracks went to Number 1 for five weeks and include first LP appearances of I Call Your Name and Long Tall Sally.

The Beau Brummels

The Beau Brummels: San Francisco rock band formed 1964, named after the English dandy Beau Brummell. Hits "Laugh, Laugh" (No. 15) and "Just a Little" (No. 8); first SF band with a national hit; albums Introducing (1965) through Bradley's Barn (1968).

The Beautiful South

The Beautiful South, English pop band formed 1988 in Hull by ex-Housemartins Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway; jazzy pop with cynical lyrics; "A Little Time" No. 1; split 2007.

The Belair Lip Bombs

The Belair Lip Bombs are an Australian indie rock band formed 2017 in Frankston, Melbourne, led by Maisie Everett. Known for "yearn-core" power pop, albums Lush Life (2023) and Again (2025), and as Third Man Records' first Australian signing.

The Belasco

The Belasco, also known as the Belasco Theater, is a 1920s theater in downtown Los Angeles that reopened in 2011 as a multi-room nightclub and concert venue operated by Live Nation.

The Bellamy Brothers

The Bellamy Brothers are an American pop and country duo, brothers Howard and David Bellamy of Florida, best known for the 1976 hit "Let Your Love Flow."

The Ben (musician)

The Ben, born Benjamin Mugisha, is a Rwandan R&B and pop singer who broke through in 2008 with "Amaso Ku Maso" and spent years in Chicago.

The Bends (album)

The Bends is Radiohead's second studio album, released 13 March 1995 on XL Recordings. Produced by John Leckie, recorded through 1994, it features Fake Plastic Trees, Just, and Street Spirit, and introduced engineer Nigel Godrich.

The Best (song)

"The Best" (also called "Simply the Best") is a Holly Knight and Mike Chapman song, originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler in 1988 and made a worldwide hit by Tina Turner's 1989 cover, later the NSWRL rugby league anthem.

The Best Damn Thing

The Best Damn Thing is Avril Lavigne's third studio album (RCA, April 17, 2007), a pop-punk record led by "Girlfriend" and produced by Dr. Luke, Butch Walker, Rob Cavallo, and Deryck Whibley; it topped US and UK charts and went double platinum in the US.

The Best of New Order

The Best of New Order, also styled (the best of) NewOrder, is New Order's second compilation album, released November 1994 after Substance (1987): 17 tracks, 70 minutes, 7" mixes from 1985 on, four new '94 mixes, UK top 5, later paired with the 1995 remix album The Rest Of New Order.

The Big Day (album)

The Big Day, the 2019 debut studio album by Chance the Rapper (Chancelor Bennett), a 22-track self-released record inspired by his wedding to Kirsten Corley; scored 71 on Metacritic but 3.7 from fans, followed six years later by Star Line.

The Big Dudes

The Big Dudes were an early-1980s Johannesburg pop group that, with lead vocalist Brenda Fassie, released "Weekend Special" (1983), credited with beginning South African bubblegum.

The Big Lebowski (soundtrack)

The Big Lebowski (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Mercury, February 24, 1998: 14-track T Bone Burnett song compilation with one Carter Burwell cue, 'Wie Glauben'; reissued on LP by Virgin EMI and Mondo.