Editing The Beach Boys (section)

====Greatest hits LPs, touring resurgence, and Caribou sessions====
After ''Holland'', the group maintained a touring regimen, captured on the double live album ''[[The Beach Boys in Concert]]'' released in November 1973, but recorded very little in the studio through 1975.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=323}} Several months earlier, they had announced that they would complete ''Smile'', but this never came to fruition, and plans for its release were once again abandoned.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=305}}{{refn|group=nb|Pursuant to the terms of their record contract, when the group missed their May 1973 deadline to deliver the ''Smile'' album, Warner Bros. deducted $50,000 from the band's next advance.{{sfn|Badman|2004|pp=305, 327}}}} Following Murry's death in June 1973, Brian retreated into his bedroom and withdrew further into drug abuse, alcoholism, [[chain smoking]], and overeating.{{sfn|Badman|2004|pp=329–330}} In October, the band dismissed Rieley as manager and appointed Mike Love's brother, Stephen, and [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] manager [[James William Guercio]].{{sfn|Badman|2004|pp=331, 336}} Chaplin and Fataar left the band in December 1973 and November 1974, respectively, with Dennis returning to drums following Fataar's departure.{{sfn|Badman|2004|pp=332, 341}}

The Beach Boys' greatest hits compilation album ''[[Endless Summer (The Beach Boys album)|Endless Summer]]'' was released in June 1974 to unexpected success, becoming the band's second number 1 US album in October.{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=217}}{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=339}} The LP had a 155-week chart run, selling over 3 million copies.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=193}} The Beach Boys became the number-one act in the US,{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=339}} propelling themselves from opening for [[Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young]] in the summer of 1974 to headliners selling out basketball arenas in a matter of weeks.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|pp=193–194}} Guercio prevailed upon the group to swap out newer songs with older material in their concert setlists,{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=216}} partly to accommodate their growing audience and the demand for their early hits.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=192}} Later in the year, members of the band appeared as guests on Chicago's hit "[[Wishing You Were Here]]".{{sfn|White|1996|p=287}} At the end of 1974, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' proclaimed the Beach Boys "Band of the Year" based on the strength of their live performances.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|pp=193–194}}{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=218}}

To capitalize on their sudden resurgence in popularity, the Beach Boys accepted Guercio's invitation to record their next Reprise album at his [[Caribou Ranch]] studio, located around the mountains of [[Nederland, Colorado]].{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=341}}{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=217}}{{sfn|Carlin|2006|pp=194–195}} These October 1974 sessions marked the group's return to the studio after a 21-month period of virtual inactivity, but the proceedings were cut short after Brian had insisted on returning to his home in Los Angeles.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=341}} With the project put on hold, the Beach Boys spent most of the next year on the road playing college football stadiums and basketball arenas.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=195}}{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=218}} The only Beach Boys recording of 1974 to see release at the time was the Christmas single "[[Child of Winter (Christmas Song)|Child of Winter]]", recorded upon the group's return to Los Angeles in November and released the following month.

Over the summer of 1975, the touring group played a co-headlining series of concert dates with Chicago, a pairing that was nicknamed "[[Beachago]]".{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=196}}{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=219}} The tour was massively successful and restored the Beach Boys' profitability to what it had been in the mid-1960s.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=347}} Although another joint tour with Chicago had been planned for the summer of 1976,{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=219}} the Beach Boys' association with Guercio and his Caribou Management company ended in early 1976.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=362}}{{refn|group=nb|According to Gaines, Guercio may have been fired because members of the group "felt Caribou was being overpaid", although "many observers suggest the Beach Boys followed an old pattern of jettisoning personnel when their financial situation improved".{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=269}} Biographer Mark Dillon states that the tour evaporated due to Dennis' budding romance with [[Karen Lamm]], the ex-wife of Chicago keyboardist [[Robert Lamm]].{{sfn|Dillon|2012|p=219}} }} Stephen Love subsequently took over as the band's ''de facto'' business manager.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=269}}