MickZagger
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That Love destroyed the Beach Boys? After their huge success on Pet Sounds, when Brian Wilson was working on SMiLE, Love continually fought Brian, saying they should go back to their surf tunes that had been so popular. Various accounts have Love's undercutting Brian with the band as so severe that it was a big reason (though far from the only one) that Brian had a breakdown and basically began his gradual decline out of music for a long time.
In addition, once Brian basically stopped being the creative force, not very many people liked what Love turned the Beach Boys into for the rest of the '70s and into the '80s, a bit of a parody of what they had been.
It's definitely opinion, but it's one held by a lot of Beach Boys fans.
Just because people hate his uncle doesn't mean they should disregard the great player that Kevin is.
