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Article: Beach Boys top all-time album chart as critics hark back to Sixties
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 14, 1995
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DAVID LISTER
Arts Correspondent
In an exercise destined to provoke heated argument, a chart has
been compiled of the 100 best rock albums of all time.
Rock music writers have been surveyed by Mojo magazine over five
months and the result is the first chart to be drawn from all rock
albums ever recorded. The number one album on the list, which will
be printed in the new edition of Mojo tomorrow, is The Beach Boys'
Pet Sounds. This 1966 album masterminded by the group's composer,
Brian Wilson, became known as America's Sergeant Pepper.
Speaking from California, Wilson said: "It's great to know that
after all these years people still love the record, because when I
made it, I put my heart and ...