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====''Today!'', ''Summer Days'', and ''Party!''==== [[File:The Beach Boys 1964 Billboard.png|thumb|right|The band with caricatures in Paris, November 1964]] By the end of 1964, the stress of road travel, writing, and producing became too much for Brian. On December 23, while on a flight from Los Angeles to Houston, he suffered a [[panic attack]].{{sfn|Sanchez|2014|pp=63β64}} In January 1965, he announced his withdrawal from touring to concentrate entirely on songwriting and record production. For the last few days of 1964 and into early 1965, session musician and up-and-coming solo artist [[Glen Campbell]] agreed to temporarily serve as Brian's replacement in concert.{{sfn|Badman|2004|pp=77, 79}} Carl took over as the band's musical director onstage.<ref name="Jarnow15" />{{refn|group=nb|Contracts at that time stipulated that promoters hire "Carl Wilson plus four other musicians".<ref name="Jarnow15" /> Additionally, in February, July, and October, Brian rejoined the live group for one-off occasions.<ref name=GIGS65>{{cite web|last1=Doe|first1=Andrew G. Doe|title=GIGS65|url=http://esquarterly.com/bellagio/gigs65.html|website=Bellagio 10452|publisher=Endless Summer Quarterly|access-date=June 15, 2018|archive-date=October 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006142154/http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/gigs65.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}} Now a full-time studio artist,{{sfn|Schinder|2007|p=111}} Brian wanted to move the Beach Boys beyond their surf aesthetic, believing that their image was antiquated and distracting the public from his talents as a producer and songwriter.<ref>{{harvnb|Sanchez|2014|pp=91β93}}; {{harvnb|Kent|2009|p=27}}</ref> Musically, he said he began to "take the things I learned from Phil Spector and use more instruments whenever I could. I doubled up on basses and tripled up on keyboards, which made everything sound bigger and deeper."{{sfn|Wilson|Greenman|2016|p=88}} {{Quote box | quote = We needed to grow. Up to this point we had milked every idea dry [and did] every possible angle about surfing and [cars]. But we needed to grow artistically. | source = β Brian Wilson{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=54}}<ref name=HimesSurf /> | width = 25em | align = right }} Released in March 1965, ''[[The Beach Boys Today!]]'' marked the first time the group experimented with the "album-as-art" form. The tracks on side one feature an uptempo sound that contrasts side two, which consists mostly of emotional ballads.<ref name="Bolin2012" /> Music writer Scott Schinder referenced its "[[suite (music)|suite-like structure]]" as an early example of the [[Album Era|rock album format]] being used to make a cohesive artistic statement.{{sfn|Schinder|2007|p=111}} Brian also established his new lyrical approach toward the autobiographical; journalist [[Nick Kent]] wrote that the subjects of Brian's songs "were suddenly no longer simple happy souls harmonizing their sun-kissed innocence and dying devotion to each other over a honey-coated backdrop of surf and sand. Instead, they'd become highly vulnerable, slightly neurotic and riddled with telling insecurities."{{sfn|Kent|2009|p=13}} In the book ''Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop'', [[Bob Stanley (musician)|Bob Stanley]] remarked that "Brian was aiming for [[Johnny Mercer]] but coming up [[indie rock|proto-indie]]."{{sfn|Stanley|2013|pp=219β220}} In 2012, the album was voted 271 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's list of the [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-beach-boys-the-beach-boys-today-20120524 |title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Beach Boys, 'The Beach Boys Today' |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=May 31, 2012 |access-date=August 12, 2012 |archive-date=October 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022163036/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-beach-boys-the-beach-boys-today-20120524 |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 1965, Campbell's own career success pulled him from touring with the group.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=86}} [[Columbia Records]] staff producer [[Bruce Johnston]] was asked to locate a replacement for Campbell; having failed to find one, Johnston himself became a full-time member of the band on May 19, 1965. With Johnston's arrival, Brian now had a sixth voice he could work with in the band's vocal arrangements, with the June 4 vocal sessions for "[[California Girls]]" being Johnston's first recording session with the Beach Boys. "California Girls" was included on the band's next album ''[[Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]]'' and eventually charted at number 3 in the US as the second single from the album, while the album itself went to number 2. The first single from ''Summer Days'' had been a reworked arrangement of "[[Help Me, Rhonda]]", which became the band's second number 1 US single in the spring of 1965.{{sfn|Schinder|2007|pp=111β112}} For contractual reasons, owing to his previous deal with Columbia Records, Johnston was not able to be credited or pictured on Beach Boys records until 1967.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cashmere |first1=Paul |title=Bruce Johnston Clocks Up 50 Years In The Beach Boys |url=http://www.noise11.com/news/bruce-johnston-clocks-up-50-years-in-the-beach-boys-20150823 |website=noise11.com |date=August 23, 2015 |access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref> To appease Capitol's demands for a Beach Boys LP for the 1965 Christmas season, Brian conceived ''[[Beach Boys' Party!]]'', a live-in-the-studio album consisting mostly of acoustic covers of 1950s rock and R&B songs, in addition to covers of three Beatles songs, [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)|The Times They Are a-Changin']]", and idiosyncratic rerecordings of the group's earlier songs.{{sfn|Bogdanov|Woodstra|Erlewine|2002|p=71}} The album was an early precursor of the "[[MTV Unplugged|unplugged]]" trend. It also included a cover of [[The Regents (doo-wop band)|the Regents]]' song "[[Barbara Ann]]", which unexpectedly reached number 2 when released as a single several weeks later.{{sfn|Schinder|2007|p=113}} In November, the group released another top-twenty single, "[[The Little Girl I Once Knew]]". It was considered the band's most experimental statement thus far.{{sfn|Bogdanov|Woodstra|Erlewine|2002|p=72}} The single continued Brian's ambitions for daring arrangements, featuring unexpected tempo changes and numerous false endings.{{sfn|Howard|2004|p=59}} With the exception of their 1963 and 1964 Christmas singles ("Little Saint Nick" and "The Man with All the Toys") it was the group's lowest charting single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 since "[[Ten Little Indians (The Beach Boys song)|Ten Little Indians]]" in 1962, peaking at number 20.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-beach-boys/chart-history/hsi/|title=The Beach Boys The Little Girl I Once Knew Chart History|magazine=Billboard|access-date=March 13, 2018|archive-date=November 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117203022/https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-beach-boys/chart-history/hsi/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to Luis Sanchez, in 1965, Bob Dylan was "rewriting the rules for pop success" with his music and image, and it was at this juncture that Wilson "led The Beach Boys into a transitional phase in an effort to win the pop terrain that had been thrown up for grabs".{{sfn|Sanchez|2014|p=76}}
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