Editing The Beach Boys (section)

====''L.A. (Light Album)'' and ''Keepin' the Summer Alive''====
[[File:The Beach Boys 1979.jpg|thumb|right|The Beach Boys in 1979]]
The group's first two albums for CBS, 1979's ''[[L.A. (Light Album)]]'' and 1980's ''[[Keepin' the Summer Alive]]'', struggled in the US, charting at 100 and 75 respectively, though the band did manage a top-forty single from ''L.A. (Light Album)'' with "[[Good Timin' (The Beach Boys song)|Good Timin']]". The recording of these albums saw Bruce Johnston return to the band, initially solely as a producer and eventually as a full-time band member. In-between the two albums, the group contributed the song "[[It's a Beautiful Day (The Beach Boys song)|It's a Beautiful Day]]" to the soundtrack of the film ''[[Americathon]]''.  In an April 1980 interview, Carl reflected that "the last two years have been the most important and difficult time of our career. We were at the ultimate crossroads. We had to decide whether what we had been involved in since we were teenagers had lost its meaning. We asked ourselves and each other the difficult questions we'd often avoided in the past."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lloyd|first1=Jack|title=Surf Wasn't Always Smooth|publisher=Knight News Service|date=April 25, 1980}}</ref> By the next year, he left the touring group because of unhappiness with the band's nostalgia format and lackluster live performances, subsequently pursuing a solo career.{{sfn|Schinder|2007|p=124}} He stated: "I haven't quit the Beach Boys but I do not plan on touring with them until they decide that 1981 means as much to them as 1961."<ref name="Jarnow15">{{cite web|last1=Jarnow|first1=Jesse|title=Carl Only Knows: A New Biography of the Man Legally Known as the Beach Boys|url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/926-carl-only-knows-a-new-biography-of-the-man-legally-known-as-the-beach-boys/|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=October 12, 2015|access-date=April 21, 2020|archive-date=June 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616042103/https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/926-carl-only-knows-a-new-biography-of-the-man-legally-known-as-the-beach-boys/|url-status=live}}</ref> Carl returned in May 1982, after approximately 14 months of being away, on the condition that the group reconsider their rehearsal and touring policies and refrain from "Las Vegas-type" engagements.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=373}}

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On June 21, 1980, the Beach Boys performed a concert at [[Knebworth]], England, which featured a slightly intoxicated Dennis. The concert would later be released as a live album titled ''[[Good Timin': Live at Knebworth England 1980]]'' in 2002. In 1981, the band scored a surprise US top-twenty hit when their cover of [[the Del-Vikings]]' "[[Come Go with Me]]", from the three year old ''M.I.U. Album'', was released as a single from ''[[Ten Years of Harmony]]'', a double compilation album focusing on the Reprise and CBS years.<ref>Whitburn, Joel (2004). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 51.</ref>

In late 1982, Eugene Landy was hired once more as Brian's therapist.<ref name="TelegraphObit">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/31/db3102.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/31/ixportal.html|title=Eugene Landy obituary|access-date=April 16, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225202250/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2006%2F03%2F31%2Fdb3102.xml&sSheet=%2Fportal%2F2006%2F03%2F31%2Fixportal.html|archive-date=February 25, 2008}}</ref> This involved removing him from the group on November 5, 1982, at the behest of Carl, Love, and Jardine,<ref name="Goldberg1984">{{cite magazine|last1=Goldberg|first1=Michael|title=Dennis Wilson: The Beach Boy Who Went Overboard|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=June 7, 1984|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-beach-boy-who-went-overboard-19840607|access-date=June 20, 2018|archive-date=August 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830173430/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-beach-boy-who-went-overboard-19840607|url-status=live}}</ref> in addition to putting him on a strict diet and health regimen.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|pp=243–244}} Coupled with counseling sessions that retaught him basic social etiquette, this therapy restored Brian's physical health, slimming down from {{convert|311|lb|kg}} to {{convert|185|lb|kg}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brian Wilson on the Beach Boys, Gershwin and his upcoming biopic|url=http://www.ifc.com/fix/2011/11/brian-wilson-on-biopic-the-beach-boys-gershwin|work=IFC|access-date=August 28, 2013|date=November 16, 2011|archive-date=October 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005021909/http://www.ifc.com/fix/2011/11/brian-wilson-on-biopic-the-beach-boys-gershwin|url-status=live}}</ref>